Reading a credit card on scanner/printer

[Nancy Shackelford]

This new credit card isn't being read at all correctly with my printer/scanner/copier/fax machine. Using DocuScan and latest NVDA on Windows 11 computer. Advice, please.

Thanks,

Nance

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[Michael Chopra]

Hi.

I'm interested as to why you would want to have a credit card scanned? If possible, could you not have someone read you the information, name, card number, expiry date and security code?

Thanks.

From Michael.

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[Nancy Shackelford]

I could, but I know not when this will be. I live alone, and I have just 2 people, a couple, that I see. I talk to them all the time but don't see them all that often. I may have to wait till one of them is over here.

Nance

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[Sean Randall]

Unfortunately this is a known problem with OCR technology. There are lots of ways cards show numbers now - some are inked differently, some are engraved or embossed in relief ... very much down to who your bank uses and so on. 

All the major banking apps in the UK let you see your full card details inside, or will send them in braille on request. 

If you have a phone, there's often a facility to capture the card details - the last card I scanned into Apple pay captured everything with my phone camera perfectly. 

Then there's AI-based solutions which some people go for, although they're not always reliable and there are privacy concerns. 

In short; a flatbed scanner isn't really the tool for this in the current era. 

Sean

On 10 Jul 2025, at 04:47, Nancy Shackelford <n.k.na...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

Michael,

 

More than once I have wanted a credit or other plastic card scanned.

Yes, I can wait  or ask a friend to come by.

 

But, it so much better to be able to do it yourself, when you want.

 

The difference is like getting in your car and just going where ever wshen ever you want as compared to waiting for a bus.

 

The word is independence.

 

Yes, electronicly assisted independence.

 

Monte Single

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[Nancy Shackelford]

Yes, this certainly rings true about some cards being different than others. I had a different card which was read correctly with the scanner, but this one is all jibberish!

Thanks,

Nance

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM Sean Randall <con...@seanrandall.me> wrote:

Unfortunately this is a known problem with OCR technology. There are lots of ways cards show numbers now - some are inked differently, some are engraved or embossed in relief ... very much down to who your bank uses and so on.