Johannesburg, 25 Mar 2013
For any nation, the control and regulation of cross-border activity is essential for continued stability and economic progress. Citizens need to be able to easily move across borders to conduct business and socially, to visit family or simply to expand horizons. However, this need also creates a requirement for tight border control measures.
The aim of any border security solution is to secure and manage a country's territorial boundaries such as air, land, and sea. They should be designed to provide a framework conducive to economic development while preventing unauthorised entry of terrorists and criminals, and minimising border vulnerabilities to illegal activities like human trafficking.
Document authentication solutions allow border control departments to identify persons of interest as soon as they enter the country. Using universally recognised markers for document authenticity nations across the world can be assured that the document in question is valid, and legitimately associated with its holder.
Available locally, the Regula workstation Model 4305 gives border control, and other governmental, agencies a device designed for conducting expert level examinations of passports, driver's licences, IDs, technical and vehicle documents, visas and seals, banknotes, securities and other protected documents.
Authenticity control functions of the workstation include:
* Activation of high-security printing features in different positions of White, Ultraviolet, Infrared, and Green light
* Detection of alterations to documents: erasures, changed data, missing and alien elements
* Examination of retro-reflective security feature
* Observation of watermarks in transmitted light
* Examination of embossed stamps and intaglio printing in oblique light
* Reading microtext with necessary magnification
The solution includes the ForensicStudio software, developed by Regula, which provides an extensive set of options needed for working with images: obtaining, processing, comparing, analysing and storing data, as well as for reading and verification of machine-readable zone (MRZ), RFID chip in eDocuments, 1D and 2D bar codes. A further option is that the workstation may be supplied with "Passport", "Autodocs" and "Currency" information reference systems, containing images of passports, identity and traveller documents, driving licenses and vehicle documents and forms as well as banknotes from more than 180 countries.
These systems also contain information on the security features of each relevant document. This offers users the unique ability to perform an immediate comparison of the examined documents with authentic samples.
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