Computer software for authenticating and verifying documents; computer software for checking travel and/or personal identification documents presented by an applicant for both physical and logical authenticity and providing feedback to the operator concerning the authenticity of each such travel and/or personal identification document; computer software that signals cases where potentially fraudulent documents are presented by an identity document applicant; computer software for reducing the likelihood of issuing identity documents to people attempting to use a false identity during the identity document issuing process; computer software for performing a check on the physical and machine-readable features of travel and/or personal identification documents, namely out-of-state driver licenses, identification cards, passports or U;S; issued visas; computer software for reading one or two dimensional barcodes, text contained in International Civil Aviation Organization, plain text on a document, a document source or magnetic stripes; computer software for reading steganographically encoded information, namely digital watermark encodings; computer software for identifying facial images, processing images or retrieving authorized data from third party databases; computer software to transfer data acquired from travel and/or personal identification documents to pre-populate demographic fields for new identity document issuance, for a watch list or for facial recognition or biometric systems; computer services for database management in the field of authenticating and verifying documents; hardware, namely a document reader, camera, optical character recognition equipment, magnetic stripe reader or computer, for use with computer software for verifying many common types of travel and/or personal identification documents as authentic

Security services, namely services in the field of authenticating and verifying documents; checking travel and/or personal identification documents presented by an applicant for both physical and logical authenticity and providing feedback to the operator concerning the authenticity of each such travel and/or personal identification document; signaling cases where potentially fraudulent documents are presented by an identity document applicant; reducing the likelihood of issuing identity documents to people attempting to use a false identity during the identity documents issuing process; performing a check on the physical and machine-readable features of travel and/or personal identification documents, namely out-of-state driver licenses, identification cards, passports or U;S; issued visas; transferring data acquired from travel and/or personal identification documents to pre-populate demographic fields for new identity document issuance, for a watch list or for facial recognition or biometrics systems; and database management