@microblink/blinkid-in-browser-sdk 5.16.0

Release 5.16.0

on Node.js NPM

5.16.0

We've added new documents to our list of supported documents:

Europe

• Austria - ID Card (front only)
• Germany - ID Card

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Brazil - ID Card (beta)
• Colombia - ID Card (front only)
• Ecuador - ID Card

Mexico

• Baja California Sur - Driving Licence (beta)
• Ciudad De Mexico - Driving Licence (front only)
• Colima - Driving Licence (front only, beta)
• Michoacan - Driving Licence (beta)
• Nayarit - Driving Licence (beta)
• Quintana Roo Solidaridad - Driving Licence (front only)
• Tlaxcala - Driving Licence
• Veracruz - Driving Licence (beta)

Oceania

• Australia - Northern Territory (beta)

Asia

• Japan - My Number Card (front only)
• Singapore - Resident ID

Northern America

• USA - Missouri - ID Card
• USA - Nevada - Driving Licence
• USA - New York City - ID Card
• USA - Oklahoma - ID Card

Back side support added:

• Mexico - Chiapas - Driving License

No longer BETA:

• Mexico - Baja California - Driving Licence
• Mexico - Chihuahua - Driving Licence
• Mexico - Coahuila - Driving Licence
• Mexico - Guanajuato - Driving Licence
• Mexico - Mexico - Driving Licence

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer

• Added the setting saveCameraFrames for saving camera frames with the default value being false.
  • New result members are also available here: frontCameraFrame, backCameraFrame, barcodeCameraFrame.
  • Memory consumption significantly increases if set to true.
• We've added new result members when scanning Australian Driving Licences: vehicleClass, licenceType, effectiveDate and expiryDate.
  • Result member are displayed under the VehicleClassInfo field; we can also extract data from multiple rows when this vehicle class info data is present on the document (e.g. multiple expiry dates for different vehicle classes).
• We've added new enum values:
  • Region: QUINTANA_ROO, QUINTANA_ROO_SOLIDARIDAD, TLAXCALA which are available when scanning Mexican Driving Licences.
  • Type: MY_NUMBER_CARD which is available when scanning Japanese My Number Card documents.
• We've added new result member additionalOptionalAddressInformation which gives additional address information about the document owner.
  • This result member can be present when scanning the Pakistani ID Card for the field Country of Stay.

Changes to IDBarcodeRecognizer

• For barcodes in countries: Argentina, Colombia, Nigeria, Panama, and South Africa, we now also extract data from the field Sex when it's populated with the character "X".

Improvements

• We've added support for Brazil ID Card when the cardholder's face image is rotated for 90 degrees on the document.
  • We will return face image and document image + data from VIZ part present on the back side.
• BlinkIdCombinedRecognizer can return the full frame from the front side if saveCameraFrames is set to true, whereas before it returned the full frame only for the back side.