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A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s. Most travel passports worldwide are MRPs. They are standardized by the ''ICAO Document 9303'' (endorsed by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission as ISO/IEC 7501-1) and have a special ''machine-readable zone'' (''MRZ''), which is usually at the bottom of the identity page at the beginning of a passport. The ''ICAO Document 9303'' describes three types of documents. Usually passport booklets are issued in "Type 3" format, while passport cards typically use the "Type 1" format. The ''machine-readable zone'' of a Type 3 travel document spans two lines, and each line is 44 characters long. The following information has to be provided in the zone: name, passport number, nationality, date of birth, sex, passport expiration date and personal identity number. There is room for optional, often country-dependent, supplementary information. The ''machine-readable zone'' of a Type 1 travel document spans three lines, and each line is 30 characters long. The advantages of machine-readable passports include: * Faster processing of arriving passengers by immigration officials. * More reliable than a human read, compared to the manually read passports that preceded them. ==Format== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Machine-readable passport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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