Optical Scanning
The Future of Optical Scanning Is Lower Cost and Better Performance

The introduction of the new CMOS imaging chips have lead to increased performance and substantial cost reductions in all types of optical scanners. Today, manufacturers are building smaller, inexpensive scanning devices that are portable, highly reliable, and fully integrated around powerful onboard processors. New forms of bar code technology now offer extremely high information density that is far more reliable than what was used in the past.

The AuthX system takes advantage of these current and future advances in scanning hardware and optical encoding. The result is an inexpensive, highly secure, robust photo identity document that is resistant to both the mechanical and electromagnetic damage a document may be subjected to over its lifespan.

AuthX however, is not a barcode company. The barcode serves only as a machine-readable envelope for the authentication code. Other envelope types such as optical character recognition (OCR), a magnetic-stripe and smart card can also contain the secure AuthX authentication code.

In the real world, AuthX enables multiple levels of security, outlined in the Document Security Overview.