Nebraska Driver License & ID Card PDF417 API

Reading Nebraska Card Barcodes in Real Workflows

Nebraska insurers and financial firms process applications remotely, while processing plants onboard workers on site. Remote uploads are often compressed by messaging apps. PDF417 error correction recovers some damage, but an application should never invent identity values when the barcode cannot be decoded.

One API for Nebraska Licenses and ID Cards

Nebraska cards are issued by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles. Licenses and identification cards carry the same AAMVA DL/ID PDF417 barcode on the back. Send the back image to the StructOCR PDF417 API: it decodes the barcode deterministically, normalizes the jurisdiction to NE, and returns document_kind as driver_license or id_card. Test a non-sensitive sample in the free PDF417 scanner. For the printed front of the card, use the Driver License OCR API.

Where This Workflow Fits

• Insurance application prefill: Pre-fill names, dates, and address for insurance application prefill and keep final confirmation in your application.
• Plant workforce onboarding: Accept both Nebraska licenses and state ID cards, and use document_kind where only a license is acceptable.
• Agricultural lending: Send unreadable Nebraska barcodes to a retake or manual review step instead of saving partial identity data.

Decode a Nebraska Card Back

Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image of the full card back. Move out of direct light or tilt the card slightly to remove glare, then upload the original camera photo.

Prerequisite: A server-side StructOCR API key and a clear image of the complete card back

curl -X POST https://api.structocr.com/v1/driver-license-pdf417 \
  -H "x-api-key: $STRUCTOCR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@nebraska-card-back.jpg"

Illustrative Nebraska ID Card Response

This response uses wholly fictional data to show a NE identification card. A license returns document_kind driver_license and its class fields.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "type": "drivers_license",
    "document_kind": "id_card",
    "source": "pdf417",
    "country_code": "USA",
    "region": "NE",
    "document_number": "SAMPLE1234",
    "surname": "SAMPLE",
    "given_names": "ALEX MORGAN",
    "first_name": "ALEX",
    "middle_name": "MORGAN",
    "sex": "X",
    "date_of_birth": "1990-01-15",
    "date_of_issue": "2025-01-15",
    "date_of_expiry": "2030-01-15",
    "address": "100 EXAMPLE AVE",
    "city": "SAMPLE CITY",
    "postal_code": "00000",
    "vehicle_class": null,
    "restrictions": null,
    "endorsements": null,
    "document_discriminator": "SAMPLE-DISCRIMINATOR",
    "issuer_identification_number": null,
    "aamva_version": 10,
    "jurisdiction_version": 0
  }
}