Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO

(viii) Machine Readable Travel Documents
Informative Appendix 2 to Section III.
Machine-assisted document security verification ....................................................................... III-15
1. Scope ................................................................................................................................. III-15
2. Types of machine assisted document verification features ................................................ III-15
Informative Appendix 3 to Section III.
The prevention of fraud associated with the issuance process .................................................. III-18
1. Scope ................................................................................................................................. III-18
2. Fraud and its prevention ..................................................................................................... III-18
3. Recommended measures against fraud ............................................................................ III-18
4. Procedures to combat fraudulent applications ................................................................... III-19
5. Control of issuing facilities ................................................................................................. III-20
IV. Technical specifications common to both Size 1 and Size 2
machine readable official travel documents ............................................................................ IV-1
Scope ....................................................................................................................................... IV-1
Physical characteristics ............................................................................................................. IV-1
General layout of the MRtd (td1 and td2) ................................................................................. IV-1
Content and use of zones ......................................................................................................... IV-4
Displayed identification feature(s) of the holder ........................................................................ IV-6
Layout of the MRtd applicable to both td1 and td2 ................................................................... IV-7
Mandatory machine readable zone (MRZ) (Zone VII) ............................................................... IV-8
Convention for writing the name of the holder........................................................................... IV-10
Representation of the issuing State or organization and nationality of the holder .................... IV-12
Representation of dates ........................................................................................................... IV-13
Abbreviations of months in English, French and Spanish ........................................................ IV-13
Check digits in the machine readable zone .............................................................................. IV-14
Machine reading requirements and the effective reading zone ............................................... IV-18
Characteristics of the machine readable zone .......................................................................... IV-18
Quality specifications of the machine readable zone ............................................................... IV-18
MRtds with additional data storage and biometric capability..................................................... IV-20
Appendix 1 to Section IV. Three-letter codes ................................................................................ IV-21
Appendix 2 to Section IV. Transliterations recommended for use by States ............................. IV-25
Appendix 3 to Section IV. Subset of OCR-B characters from ISO 1073-2 for use
in machine readable travel documents ......................................................................................... IV-30
Appendix 4 to Section IV. Schematic diagram of the MRTD effective reading zone .................. IV-31
Appendix 5 to Section IV. Illustrative guidelines for portraits in an MRTD ................................ IV-32
V. Technical specifications unique to Size 1 machine readable
official travel documents ...................................................................................................... V-1
Scope ....................................................................................................................................... V-1
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