Overview#

Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) is a location on a document that is suitable to be read by a device.

Machine Readable Zone typically uses Optical Character Recognition

Machine Readable Zone are common on:

• Checks
• Passports (Machine-Readable Passport) and other Machine Readable Travel Documents

More Information#

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

• ICAO
• ICAO Document 9303
• MRZ
• TD1