Stacked · since 1991

PDF417

Driver’s licences (AAMVA), boarding passes, shipping documents

A stacked code of short linear rows, each codeword 17 modules made of 4 bars and 4 spaces (hence the name). It is what you scan on the back of a US or Canadian driver’s licence.

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Introduced: 1991
Created by: Ynjiun Wang at Symbol Technologies
Characters: Text, numbers and bytes
Length: 3 to 90 rows of 1 to 30 columns
Check: Reed–Solomon, levels 0–8
Capacity: 1,850 text characters or 1,108 bytes

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