I aaI personally use an identification scanner , because <a href="http://www.scanshell-store.com/software_idscan.htm">identification scanners</a> [identification scanners][1] gives you the option of scanning id-cards and extracts there data into an external file. they literally extracts the full text data arranged in appropriate text fields.fields.
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