New Hampshire Driver License & ID Card PDF417 API

Reading New Hampshire Card Barcodes in Real Workflows

New Hampshire retailers serve many shoppers from neighboring states, so staff handle a wide mix of license and ID designs. A single deterministic parser avoids per-state manual rules. PDF417 error correction recovers some damage, but an application should never invent identity values when the barcode cannot be decoded.

One API for New Hampshire Licenses and ID Cards

New Hampshire cards are issued by the New Hampshire Division 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 NH, 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

• Liquor store age checks: Pre-fill names, dates, and address for liquor store age checks and keep final confirmation in your application.
• Ski rental agreements: Accept both New Hampshire licenses and state ID cards, and use document_kind where only a license is acceptable.
• Retail loyalty sign-up: Send unreadable New Hampshire barcodes to a retake or manual review step instead of saving partial identity data.

Decode a New Hampshire Card Back

Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image of the full card back. Keep the API key on your server, accept the upload in your backend, and return the capture_issue hint to the user when decoding fails.

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=@new-hampshire-card-back.jpg"

Illustrative New Hampshire ID Card Response

This response uses wholly fictional data to show a NH 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": "NH",
    "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
  }
}