Thai ID Card Reader

This package is used to read personal information from thai national id cards.

• tested on node v.16.17.0
• tested on macOS Monterey v.12.5.1
• tested on windows 11 v.21H2
• maybe work on linux. didn't test

Install

npm i thai-id-card-reader

on windows : if you got error. you must to install window build tool first

npm install --global [email protected]

on windows : if you still got error. you must to install visual studio minimum version 2019 following link below https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019

install following this answer on stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/54136652/16455947

Example code

import ThaiIDCardReader from "thai-id-card-reader"

const reader = new ThaiIDCardReader()
reader.init()
// macOS set to 0, windows set to 1000
reader.setInsertCardDelay(1000) 
// if run on macOS you can remove function setReadTimeout below
// if you run on windows and it stuck. didn't get any data. try to increase timeout value
reader.setReadTimeout(1) 
reader.onReadComplete((data) => {
  console.log(data)
})
reader.onReadError((error) => {
  console.log(error)
})

Response object

| keyName | type |
| --- | --- | | citizenID | string | | fullNameTH | string | | fullNameEN | string | | titleTH | string | | titleEN | string | | firstNameTH | string | | firstNameEN | string | | lastNameTH | string | | lastNameEN | string | | gender | string ('male' or 'female') | | dateOfBirth | string (YYYY-MM-DD)| | address | string | | cardIssuer | string | | issueDate | string (YYYY-MM-DD)| | expireDate | string (YYYY-MM-DD)| | photoAsBase64Uri | string |