Empower your application with barKoder's SA DL Parser—designed to accurately decrypt and parse info within PDF417 barcodes on South African Driver's Licenses in real time.
barKoder’s SA DL parser is designed to automatically extract structured identity data from PDF417 barcodes found on South African driver’s licenses and ID cards, in compliance with the official SA DL/ID Card Data Standard.
Whether you're verifying identity for onboarding, KYC, access control, or fleet management, barKoder instantly returns clean, labeled fields from a single scan.
barKoder’s parser decodes and organizes the SA DL barcode data into structured fields, which are then returned in a developer-friendly JSON format, with key–value pairs mapped to the SA DL data elements, like so:
{
"first_name": "Alex",
"last_name": "Johnson",
"license_number": "D12345678",
"address": "123 Main St",
"city": "Cape Town",
"province": "Western Cape",
"postal_code": "8000",
"dob": "1990-02-12",
"issue_date": "2022-01-01",
"expiry_date": "2030-01-01"
}The South African Driver's License (SA-DL) defines the standard for driver’s license barcode data across South Africa.
Most provinces use PDF417 barcodes on the back of ID cards to encode information according to the accepted SA-DL specifications, such as:
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