PASSPORT SCANNERS - PROFILE OF ROCHFORD THOMPSON

Immigration authorities, border police and international airlines need fast, reliable and accurate passport scanners to process Machine Readable Travel Documents. Rochford Thompson has manufactured passport scanners for ICAO format passports since 1986 and in 2006 shipped its 45,000th passport scanner.

Rochford Thompson passport scanners automatically read passports, visas, airline tickets and most forms of magnetic stripe cards. Automatic data capture improves accuracy, reduces passenger processing times, enhances security and enables airlines to comply with the APIS requirements of the US and other governments.

The latest generation Rochford Thompson full page passport scanners read OCR codelines, capture high resolution images under three different light sources and read RF chip data from the latest generation of ICAO e-Passports in a single operation.