RE: [PHP] card scanners and PHP
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:08:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] card scanners and PHP | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Do you mean a magnetic stripe reader?
Information is scattered all over business cards.
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Most states do not allow access to their mag stripes, and one company
that I have found so far uses what is essentially an OCR scanner and a
software called IDScan to parse the data. They even claim to be able to
scan business cards.