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 automatically decrypts and parses data encoded in the PDF417 barcode found on South African driver’s licences. The decoded information is returned as structured data that can be used directly in identity verification, fleet management, vehicle rental, onboarding, and other applications.
The parser works directly within the barKoder SDK, allowing applications to scan, decrypt, and process South African driver’s licence data without requiring developers to manually interpret the encoded payload.
Whether you're verifying identity for onboarding, KYC, access control, or fleet management, barKoder instantly returns clean, labeled fields from a single scan.
barKoder decrypts, decodes and organizes the SA DL barcode data into structured fields, which are returned in a developer-friendly format for direct application use, like so:
{
"id_number": "...",
"licence_number": "...",
"first_name": "...",
"surname": "...",
"date_of_birth": "...",
"vehicle_codes": ["..."],
"issue_date": "...",
"expiry_date": "..."
}
South African driver’s licences contain a PDF417 barcode that stores encoded information about the licence holder and their driving licence details. Unlike a standard barcode containing a simple text value, the SA DL payload requires dedicated processing before its contents can be used by an application.
barKoder provides a dedicated South African Driver’s Licence parser that handles this process automatically. After the PDF417 barcode is scanned, the SDK decrypts and parses the encoded data and exposes the available fields in a structured format.
The South African Driver’s Licence PDF417 payload contains structured driver and licence information that can be decrypted and parsed by the barKoder SDK, including fields such as:
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