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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)