API in Java or C++ to read MRZ Travel Document(passport) code

Question

I am looking around for an API in java or c++ to read the MRZ and decode the MRZ code in travel documents(passports).

More information on MRZ is at http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/mrp.html. Has any one done this before with an API?

Solution

Please see the mrz-java Google code project. It is quite new though - it only supports four MRZ formats for now.

Comments

[Abhishek]

yes your right...I have the text or characters already and I just need the algo in an API form to extract them to a meaningful information