@microblink/blinkid-in-browser-sdk - npm Package Versions

5.19.2

• We've fixed a target endpoint for internal reporting logic.

5.19.1

• We've fixed a major problem with internal reporting logic.

5.19.0

What's new in the BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer?

Support for atypical Vietnam passports

• Extract data from Vietnam Passports that have non-ICAO compliant MRZ fields. For example, when the filler arrow is facing the other way (>) instead of the standard way (<) ​

Data anonymization

• We've added the option to not extract the religion field on all supported Malaysian documents (MyKad, MyKas, MyKid, MyPR, MyTentera) ​

Bugfixes

• Resolved issues with RGB color overlay when extracting document image, which was present on some devices
• We've fixed a bug with CSS ::part() pseudo-selector to enable safe CSS customization of nested elements like mb-camera-toolbar.

Optimizing camera usage

• We are now preventing aborting the scanning process when using the UI component until the camera is not being fully initialized due to potential issues with reusing the camera's resources.

5.18.0

New feature:

• Updated machine learning models resulting in a 41% reduced error rate.

Support for 16 new document types:

Northern America

• USA - Passport Card
• Usa - District of Columbia - ID Card
• USA - Iowa - ID Card
• USA - Tennessee - ID Card

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Cuba - Paper Passport
• Dominican Republic - Paper Passport
• Panama - Residence Permit (front onyl)
• Peru - Paper Passport

Europe

• Cyprus - Paper Passport
• Germany - Minors Passport
• UK - Proof of Age Card (front onyl)
• Ukraine - Residence Permit
• Ukraine - Temporrary Residence Permit

Middle East and Africa

• Qatar - Paper Passport
• UAE - Paper Passport

Oceania

• Australia - Northern Territory - Proof of Age Card

Back side support added:

• Austria - ID Card
• Australia - South Australia - Driving license
• Australia - Tasmania - Driving license
• Canada - Quebec - Driving license
• Mexico - Quintana Roo Solidaridad - Driving license
• USA - Washington - Driving license

Added support for 26 new versions of already supported documents:

• Afghanistan - ID Card
• Bahrain - ID Card
• Hungary - Residence Permit
• India - ID Card
• Mexico - Tabasco - Driving license
• New Zealand - Driving license (front only)
• The Philippines - Professional ID (front only)
• Slovakia - Residence Permit
• South Africa - ID Card
• Switzerland - Residence Permit
• UK - Driving license
• USA - Colorado - Driving license
• USA - Idaho - Driving license
• USA - Kansas - ID Card
• USA - Kentucky - Driving license
• USA - Maine - Driving license
• USA - Massachusetts - ID Card
• USA - Nebraska - Driving license
• USA - New Hampshire - Driving license
• USA - New Jersey - ID Card
• USA - New Mexico - ID Card
• USA - North Carolina - ID Card
• USA - Utah - Driving license
• USA - Vermont Driving license
• USA - West Virginia - Driving license

These documents are no longer BETA:

• Algeria - Paper Passport
• Slovakia - Residence Permit
• USA - Mississippi - ID Card

Added support for 8 new ID types in BETA:

• Iceland - Paper Passport
• South Africa - ID Card (front only)
• Brazil - Consular Passport (beta)
• Quintana Roo Cozumel - Driving license
• Canada - Social Security Card (front only)
• Canada - British Columbia - Minor Public Services Card
• USA - Maine - ID Card
• USA - North Dakota - ID Card

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer

• Added new enums:
  • Region: QUINTANA_ROO_COZUMEL
  • Type: CONSULAR_PASSPORT, MINORS_PASSPORT, and MINORS_PUBLIC_SERVICES_CARD

Platform-related SDK changes

• We've added a support for two different WebAssembly build versions.
  • Standard and default build that has all the optimisations, but has considerably larger file size compared to lightweight version.
  • Lighter version of the WebAssembly bundle that doesn’t have all optimizations for reading of dense barcodes with low quality cameras.

5.17.1

• We've fixed a problem that has caused the enormous size of WebAssembly bundles.

5.17.0

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer

• We've introduced the expanded DataMatch functionality for the BlinkID with the new result member called dataMatchDetailedInfo
  • This result member will enable you to see for which field has been performed, or it did not, the DataMatch functionality. This is enabled for dateOfBirth, documentNumber and dateOfExpiry.
  • For example, if the date of expiry is scanned from the front and back side of the document and values do not match, this method will return DataMatchResult: Failed.
    • Result will be DataMatchResult: Success only if scanned values for all fields that are compared are the same. If data matching has not been performed, the result will be DataMatchResult: NotPerformed. This information is available for every of the three mentioned field values above.
• We've fixed issues with scanning Argentina AlienID, where there were confusions with the regular ID. ClassInfo now correctly returns which ID type is present based on the barcode data.

Platform-related SDK changes

• [BREAKING CHANGE] Due to security reasons, we've added a mechanism to load worker script from an external location.
  • New property WasmSDKLoadSettings.workerLocation was added for this purpose and represents a path to the external worker script file.
  • If omitted, SDK will look for the worker script in the resources directory.

UI Improvements

• We've added property recognitionPauseTimeout to the UI component that defines scanning pause after the first side of a document has been scanned.
  • The purpose of this property is to give the end-user enough time to flip the document before scanning is resumed.
  • Default value is 3800 and represents time in milliseconds.
• We've exposed property cameraExperienceStateDurations on the UI component that can be used to change the default durations of UI animations.

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.

5.15.2

• We removed digitalSignature property and related recognizer options

5.15.1

• We've updated Microblink logo and colors

5.15.0

We support the latest versions of these documents:

Europe

• Belgium - Driving License (front only)
• Croatia - ID Card
• France - ID Card
• France - Residence Permit (beta)
• Spain - ID Card
• Switzerland - Residence Permit
• UK - Residence Permit

Oceania

• Australia - Northern Territory - Driving License (front only, beta)

Middle East and Africa

• UAE - ID Card
• UAE - Resident ID

Northern America

• Honduras - ID Card (beta)
• USA - Colorado - ID Card
• USA - Minnesota - Driving License
• USA - Nevada - Driving License
• USA - Oklahoma - Driving License
• USA - Wyoming - Driving License

Changes to BlinkID(Combined) Recognizer

• No API changes

Improvements

• We now support DataMatch functionality on single side documents (Passports)
  • We added a special case to support DataMatch for UAE ID Card and Resident ID Card documents for the field personal_id_number
• We can now extract additional_personal_id_number on Ecuador ID Card
• We've made improvements for reading NRIC number on Malaysian documents that have an asterisk (*) character present
• We've improved document detection and cropping of the document image

Changes to IDBarcodeRecognizer

• We've added document type ArgentinaAlienID and parser for ArgentinaAlienID2012BarcodeParser

Platform-related SDK changes

• We've added methods for programmatically starting camera and image scan when using the UI component.
  • It's possible to call startCameraScan() and startImageScan(File) methods on the custom web element.
• We've standardized error structures returned from the WebAssembly library and the UI component.
  • See SDKError.ts and ErrorTypes.ts for a complete list of possible error codes.
• We've completed support for part:: selector and added an example.
• We've simplified integration of the UI component with Angular and React frameworks.
  • Integration guide for Angular
  • Integration guide for React

Bug fixes

• We've ensured that all SDK errors can be visible from fatalError and scanError events in the UI component.