Overview#

Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) are documents with the data on the identity page encoded in Optical Character Recognition format and have been issued by many countries since the 1980s.

Machine Readable Travel Document are typically standardized by the ICAO Document 9303

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• ICAO Document 9303
• ISO 7501
• MRTD
• Machine Readable Passport
• Machine Readable Zone
• TD1