how to read smart card from smart card reader in .net.

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I am working for a exchange company in bahrain so we have the requirement to read the customer national identity card from smart card reader in WINFORMS or WPF or in ASP.NET please help in this task and give me a simple example.

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

For security reasons, you should not have put that image there. It doesn't help in any way for someone replying to your question.

Sandeep Kumar · Answer

Even after 1.6 years .There is no relevant reply on this question.Hoping a better repply from the member on this question.Because I need solution for this same question. Note: I am using Omni key 3021 as smart card reader

Maen Badwan · Answer

If you mean you want to read text from your national identity card, you could capture its image, for example using a scanner or a good quality camera, then use OCR to recognize English or Arabic characters in the image. You can try using LEADTOOLS Professional OCR engine to recognize these characters. The following forum post contains the minimal required code to recognize text in your images: https://www.leadtools.com/support/forum/posts/t6450-HOWTO--Minimum-Arabic-OCR-C--Console-Application

ghayaz ahmed · Answer

Can any body tell me how to edit this question because i want to remove the picture due to some security reasons because i didn't find any editing option?

Rahul Singh · Answer

may you should try this :- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16653/A-Smart-Card-Framework-for-NET

Marc Jacquinot · Answer

Do you have access to this national ID card specification on APDU level? Some of the printed data you are after may be available even without any cryptographic keys or PIN. Printed data is often stored in "read always" memory. You can use a third-party C# .NET library for such as smartcardAPI ( http://smartcard-api.com ) to get started. It will allow you to access unmanaged winscard.dll without having to go deep into this native Windows API. OMNIKEY 3021 mentioned by Sandeep Kumar is a good choice. It is a PC/SC compliant smart card reader that should work finr with this type of smart card.

ravi carlos · Answer

open notepad...and insert the card into reader..and see whats comes up on notepad. if it is simple text then catch into ur windows apps..if encrypted..then find the way to decrypt it.. just a hint..hope it will help

how to read smart card from smart card reader in .net.

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