NAME

       mrtdreader - Reader for machine-readable travel documents (MRTDs / passports)

SYNOPSIS

       mrtdreader [options] <MRZ>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the mrtdreader command.

       mrtdreader  is  a  program  which  takes as input the content of the Machine-readable zone
       (MRZ) of Machine-readable travel documents (MRTD) and then reads out some  data  from  the
       MRTD via RFID/NFC and dumps the facial image to a file.

       MRTDs  such  as  passports nowadays usually contain an RFID chip for storing various data.
       The Basic Access Control (BAC) scheme is supported via the library libmrtd and  mrtdreader
       is  the  example  program  delivered  together with libmrtd. It uses several cryptographic
       functions in order to do the necessary decryption of the content of the MRTDs. The key for
       the  BAC-scheme  is  derived  from the Machine-readable zone (MRZ) which is printed on the
       MRTD.

OPTIONS

       If the MRZ is specified on the command line, the following options are ignored. If the MRZ
       is  not  specified,  all the three following options must be specified and the MRZ will be
       calculated from them.

       -p <passport-number>
              With this parameter, the passport number can be specified. It consists of maximum 9
              ASCII letters or digits. Note that if this one is specified, also -b and -e must be
              specified.

       -b <date-of-birth>
              Specify the date of birth in the format YYMMDD. Note that if this one is specified,
              also -p and -e must be specified.

       -e <expiration-date>
              Specify  the  expiration  date  in  the  format  YYMMDD.  Note  that if this one is
              specified, also -p and -b must be specified.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>,  for  the  Debian
       project (and may be used by others).

                                        December 01, 2014                           MRTDREADER(1)