Questions tagged [magnetic-cards]
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Libusb issue on Rasperry pi
I am writing an application to communicate with a magnetic band reader through the libusb. in ubuntu 14.04 it works perfectly but in the pi rasperry when I execute the same code it shows me this error:
libusb: error [reap_for_handle] reap failed…

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Magnetic stripe printing: Where to start?
This is a WPF desktop app related to ID Card printing. One of the new features we're trying to add is magstripe encoding. After having spent several days, I'm still not sure where to start. New questions keep popping up the more I google. I'll…

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Reverse engineering proprietary magnetic card formats
I was playing around with a few magnetic cards (parking lot tickets, time limited access etc) with my MSR605 reader.
When the format is ISO, it is quite straigforward to extract clear data. When it is not, I don't understand how I can decode the…

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How to read a magnetic card in android
We are developing an android application where user can swipe his/her magnetic card.
We need to parse the information, however there will be two scenarios to capture and handle the card input (we have connected the USB magnetic card reader):
When…

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How to Use MSR206 MagStripe R/W in
There were quite a few questions out there regarding how to interface with these devices and very few useful answers. I have written an application that uses this device for both read and write purposes. I will briefly highlight the methods needed…

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How to read magnetic card data?
I work with the magnetic card reader "MiniMag II" (ref. IDMB-334133B and datasheet here) on Windows 7. A driver has ben automatically installed, adding the card reader as a standard input device to Windows recognized devices.
When I swipe a card in…

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ios usaepay magstripe credit card data, send for processing
In my application I use online payment, for that i used PaySabar device (audio jack device) which reads magstrip data on credit card swipe.
I got credit data in encrypted format, all track1, track2 data are correct and perfect, but how to i send…

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Compilation Error: iMagRead card reader library for iOS
I am trying to implement iMagRead card reader library for iOS. But getting following error:
/iMagReadSDK/Lib/libiMagRead.a, file is universal (armv7,armv7s) but does not contain the arm64 architecture: /iMagReadSDK/Lib/libiMagRead.a
Undefined…

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How to obtain data from credit card for consumer side QR presentment
I'm trying to write some code that will do consumer presentment of EMV payment QR codes. That actual coding of the QR code seems pretty easy once I have the data for a particular credit card the consumer owns.
What I'm having a hard time finding is…

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Regex Track1 Magnetic Stripe
How can I create regex rule for name in Track1, following these rules:
Allowed Characters would be: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789
.()-$
Not Allowed Characters would be: ^!"&'*+,:;<=>@_[]#%?
Required character - only must character /…

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How to Read Magstripe Data?
I'm looking to create a small magstripe reader for my company.
We wanted to do a fun little side project to access the main front door. Ideally we wanted to create a little box with an LCD screen that greets our employees when they swipe their…
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Use Magnetic Card Reader With Visual Basic 2010
Hi i am trying to make a program that can get information form a magnetic card reader to fill in a text box like an id and/or password. or make a new account. i am using a MagTek SureSwipe Card Reader 21040140? How can I do that????

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How to send Escape Code to encode a Magnetic Stripe ID card with TCPDF
I need to encode magnetic stripe on ID cards, It's very simple we just need to send a string like this : ~1%123456? to the printer with a software like notepad or word... The printer will encode the track one, and write %123456? on the…

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Communicating with a MW-3170 magnetic card reader
One of our customers has asked if we can interface with a serial magnetic card reader/encoder from a old EPOS system. The device has no make only the MW-3170 model number.
Does anybody know how I can communicate with the device? I am currently…

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Magnetic Strip Reader, Event detector + read card
I'm trying to make a program in Windows 10 that is able to detect when a magnetic card passes through the Magnetic Strip Reader and reads the info that is in the card and puts it in a log.txt with the date and time.
So far I made this:

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