ID Authentication SDK Updates August 2026

ID Authentication SDK 3.31.11.1 | August 12, 2026
Package v3.2608.11.1
Compatible with ParseLink [PENDING]

Added

• Added a new Ghost-to-Primary photo cross-matching test, comparing the primary photo to the smaller secondary (ghost) photo on the front of the document. Initially available for California 2018 Driver's Licenses, with support for additional series to follow.
• Added detection of Alcohol Restriction and Sex Offender indicators, returned in the Details status and in PlainDocument in the SDK response.
• Extended OCR detection of the "Veteran" designation to Arizona (Horizontal), Florida (Horizontal), Georgia (Vertical), and Idaho (Horizontal) Driver's Licenses.
• Added the Middle Name field to Uzbekistan Passports and Bulgaria Identity Cards.
• Recognition of new document series. Authentication tests are available for all series listed below with the exception of UV verification, which will be added in a future release:

Changed

• Updated the Parser to v16.2607.31.1.
• Improved series recognition for back-side scans of US documents.
• Infrared test results are now reported as a Warning rather than a failure on series where the infrared image is legitimately blank or carries handwriting, which previously caused genuine documents to fail. This affects the IR Front Analysis, IR OCR, and IR Face Check tests across the following series:
  • Azerbaijan: National.
  • Belarus: National.
  • Belize: Dangriga Town Council.
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo: National.
  • Dominican Republic: National Identity Cards.
  • Ecuador: National.
  • India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka.
  • Italy: National.
  • Mexico: Guerrero (Cocula, Copalillo), Veracruz.
  • United States of America: Florida and Michigan Handgun Carry Permits, Missouri Medical Marijuana Registry Identification Cards, US Virgin Islands Driver's Licenses, Federal Resident Cards.

• Adjusted authentication test behavior for several Mexican document series; so that oversaturated UV images, empty infrared images, and similar image conditions now return a Warning rather than a failure.
• Disabled the Cross Match test for Dominican Republic 2026 Driver's Licenses, where the document number and date in the machine-readable zone differ from the printed values on legitimate documents.
• Disabled the First Name Cross Match check for Kyrgyzstan 2005 Identity Cards, where the front of the document is printed in Cyrillic while the machine-readable zone uses Latin characters.
• Disabled the Barcode Readability test for Hawaii Driver's License templates from the 2010 and 2015 series. Hawaii has made no official announcement, but barcode readability issues have been observed on these templates causing incorrect failures for legitimate Hawaii licenses.

Fixed

• Improved name field parsing on US and Mexican documents, correcting a range of extraction errors: first names that ran together, middle names where consecutive single-letter characters were discarded, names containing commas or periods, names containing ordinal components such as 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH, and misidentified surname prefixes and suffixes.
• Resolved false UV Back test failures caused by incorrect document rotation on Georgia 2019 Driver's Licenses.
• Resolved false Barcode Security test failures on South Carolina 2025 Driver's Licenses.
• Resolved false Cross Match test failures caused by a DD field discrepancy on Virginia 2023 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected extraction of the Date of Birth, Issue Date, and Expiration Date on Bahamas Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected Expiration Date extraction on Portugal 2021 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected Expiration Date extraction on Morocco 2018 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected date extraction on Nuevo León (Mexico) 2021 Driver's Licenses, where abbreviated Spanish month names were not recognized.
• Corrected OCR of the DD field on Virginia CDL 2023 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected Expiration Date extraction on Virginia CDL 2009 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected ID Number extraction on Argentina 2012 Identity Cards.
• Corrected Last Name extraction on Bonaire (Netherlands) 2010 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected IR OCR extraction on New York 2008 Driver's Licenses.
• Resolved mismatches between OCR and IR OCR field values affecting eight document series across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Guernsey, and Switzerland.
• Corrected OCR of the Weight field on California 2024 Driver's Licenses, and resolved an issue where the Middle Name field was incorrectly skipped during Cross Match.
• Corrected name field extraction on Mexico City 2020 Driver's Licenses for both single-line and two-line name layouts.
• Corrected Issue Date parsing on Nigeria 2012 Driver's Licenses.
• Field data is now returned for Mozambique 2021 Identity Cards when the Cross Match test is disabled.
• Corrected First Name extraction on Madagascar 2001 Driver's Licenses.
• Improved detection of counterfeit UK documents, with no false failures introduced on genuine 2022 series.
• Corrected document type recognition for Alaska 2024 Driver's Licenses.
• Corrected document type and subtype identification affecting Ohio 2018, Michigan 2012, and North Carolina 2015 Driver's Licenses, and Mexico 2020 INE cards.
• Corrected series recognition for Illinois 2022 Handgun Carry Permits.
• Corrected recognition of Germany 2021 Commercial Driver's Licenses.