Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO

(xiv) Machine Readable Travel Documents
Term Definition
Fraudulent Alteration Involves the alteration of a genuine document in an attempt to enable it to be used for
travel by an unauthorized person or to an unauthorized destination. The biographical
details of the genuine holder, particularly the portrait, form the prime target for such
alteration.
Front-to-back
(see-through) register
Full size (Format-A)
machine readable
visa (MRV-A)
Globally Interoperable
Biometric
A design printed on both sides of the document or an inner page of an MRP which
when viewed by transmitted light forms an interlocking image.
An MRV conforming with the dimensional specifications contained in Doc 9303,
Part 2, sized to completely fill a passport visa page.
Refers to Face Image as set forth in Doc 9303, Part 3, Volume 2.
Guilloche design A pattern of continuous fine lines, usually computer generated, and forming a unique
image that can only be accurately re-originated by access to the equipment, software
and parameters used in creating the original design.
Heat-sealed laminate A laminate bonded to the MRTD by the application of heat and pressure.
Identification card
(ID-card)
A card used as an identity document.
Identity Document Document used to identify its holder and issuer, which may carry data required as
input for the intended use of the document.
Impostor A person who assumes another person’s identity.
Infra-red drop-out ink An ink which forms a visible image when illuminated with light in the visible part of the
spectrum and which cannot be detected when illuminated in the infra-red region.
Intaglio A printing process used in the production of security documents in which engraved
plates, high printing pressure and special inks create a relief design with tactile feel on
the surface of the document.
Integrated circuit (IC) Electronic component designed to perform processing and/or memory functions.
Interoperability The ability of several independent systems or sub-system components to work
together.
Iris (printing) See Rainbow Printing.
Laminate A clear material, which may have security features such as optically variable
properties, designed to be securely bonded to a document surface.
Laser engraving A process whereby text and images (usually personalized images) are created by a
photo chemical reaction within a substrate using a laser.
Laser-perforation A process whereby text and/or images are created by perforating the substrate with
a laser.
Latent image A hidden image formed within a relief image which is composed of line structures
which vary in direction and profile resulting in the hidden image appearing at
predetermined viewing angles.