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MiniCheck Pro+TM V1.3CSCI 6838 Capstone Project

Technical Report

Version 2.0

University of Houston Clear Lake

Fall 2009

Submission Date: 12/ 4/ 2009

Project Guide:Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue

Project Mentor:Mr. Bruce Brenner

Team Members:Fujie Sheng

Chia-Ling Yang

Yunis Al-Qawasmeh

S Kedare

Monika

MiniCheck Pro+™ V 1.3 Version 2

Acknowledgement

We take the opportunity to thank our instructor Dr. Kwok-Bun-Yue for giving us

opportunity to work on real world project and providing us with very valuable and critical

feedbacks throughout the capstone project. We further extend our gratitude to our mentor

Mr. Bruce Brenner for the continuous support, guidance and motivation he has provided us

throughout the capstone project.

We would like to thank Mr. Gomee Samaraweera for his continuous support and guidance

to our team. We would also like to thank Mr. Daniel C Holdgreiwe (Computer Sciences

Corporation), USCIS VIS technical support at the Department of Homeland Security for

continuously helping us with E-verify. We would also like to thank Mr. Abby from

previous capstone team (spring 2009 Team #6) for providing us with the required

information which helped us in solving the critical issues.

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Abstract

The MiniCheck-OCR, Inc has developed a suite of applications known as the MiniCheck

MGR™, MiniCheck ID™ and MiniCheck ID Pro™ to scan, validate and process checks

and data from magnetic stripes or barcodes. MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.3’s aim is to

enhance, improve and merge the existing architecture and functionality of MiniCheck ID

Pro+TM V1.2 and MiniCheck DL Utility.

In MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.2 when a user swipes an ID and credit card through the

magnetic stripe reader, the raw data electronically encoded on the card is parsed and

converted into meaningful information, which is displayed in the user interface. MiniCheck

ID Pro+TM V1.2 support credit card processing through a payment gateway called

Authorize. Net. MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.2 also continued enhancing on E-Verify which

was incorporated by the previous capstone team. User can use E-Verify to check the

employee’s employment eligibility to work in United States. Whereas, MiniCheck DL

Utility uses updated parser that supports even those driver licenses and state issued ID

cards that do not follow AAMVA standards.

MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.3 application integrates the code of MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.2

with the code of MiniCheck DL Utility. Our project will continue to use the flexible

C#/.NET Framework and Microsoft Access for the database. The application further

enhances the features of E-Verify which were done by previous capstone team. The

application incorporates new functionality to use the birthday information, captured from

the driver license, to provide customizable age verification alert. The application uses PC

Guard, a leading product for protecting software applications from unauthorized use. One

of the main concerns with our project is that we do not have Software Development Kit

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from Atalasoft which is used for converting barcodes from image to raw data as

MiniCheck-OCR, Inc has only one license which was previously used by the capstone

teams. But now this license is with MiniCheck DL Utility’s team. Our team need Atalasoft

license to scan the front side of driver license or state issued ID card to capture the image

of the individual.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………………… 2

Abstract………………………………………………………….................................. 3 - 4

1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………… 6 - 7

2. Requirement analysis…………………………………………………………………8 - 10

3. Design and Implementation……………………………………………………… 11 - 14

2.1 Architecture Diagram………………………………………………………………... 11

2.2 Flow Chart..........................................................................................…...................... 12

2.3 Technologies used………………………………………………………..………….. 13

2.4 Software Development Model………………………………………………………. 13

2.5 Implementation Issues………………………………………….................................. 13

4. Features Implemented………………………………………………………………14 - 17

5. Testing …………………………………………………………………………………. 18

6. Final Deliverables……………………………………………………………………… 18

7. Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………….. 18

8. References………………………………………………………………........................ 19

Appendix A …………………………………………………………………… 20 - 22

Team roles and contribution

Appendix B…………………………………………………….……………… 23 - 41

B.1 Images of ScannersB.2 Screen Shots

Appendix C………………………………………………………………………. 42

Technical Terms

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1. Introduction

In day-to-day life most of the people uses their credit cards for purchasing grocery,

shopping, very often, even at some places they need to show their IDs for identification.

But some people steal the identity of other people, by carrying fraud cards, even such

people can steal personal information such as SSN (Social Security Number), etc and can

miscarry certain bogus transactions.[7]

To stop such bogus use of identity and misuse of personal information, MiniCheck-OCR,

Inc has developed three main applications viz. MiniCheck MGR™, MiniCheck ID™ and

MiniCheck DL Utility™. MiniCheck-OCR, Inc has developed a suite of application,

MiniCheck MGR™, for electronically processing checks. MiniCheck ID™ provides the

ability to validate a photo ID such as a driver’s license or state issued ID card in order to

prevent losses due to fraud. Whereas MiniCheck ID Pro™ adds to MiniCheck ID™ the

ability to process credit card transactions. Whereas MiniCheck DL Utility™ parses and

validate, even those, photo ID, such as DL or state issued ID, which does not follow

AAMVA*1 standards, as different state ID has their own standard.

MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 is a project in continuation. The main aim of this project is to

use MiniCheck OCR, Inc’s MiniCheck DL Utility™ as a basic platform and merge

important models from MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2, to build a refined application.

The previous capstone team in Spring 2009 (Team #6) developed an applications called

MiniCheck ID Pro+TMv1.2 which supports reading, parsing and displaying the

electronically encoded information in the magnetic stripes and barcodes found on driver’s

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1American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

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licenses and state issued ID cards which follow AAMVA standards. Integrated the

application E-VERIFY, which is the information data base through Homeland Security for

verifying an employee’s right to work in the US [1]. MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 also

parses the credit card information for a secure transaction, which uses Authorize.Net

application as a gateway to maintain transaction security and integrity. MiniCheck DL

Utility™ doesn’t integrate E-Verify and Authorize.Net services.

MiniCheck ID Pro+TM V1.3 is an enhancement to the existing applications. MiniCheck ID

Pro+™ V1.3 modifies MiniCheck DL Utility™ by integrating many features, like, reading

Credit Cards with the intention of processing them through Authorize.Net and E-verify to

verify employee’s status and eligibility to work in US. We have further implemented an

automatic comparison between any common information contained on a credit card to the

corresponding information contained in the magnetic stripe or barcode on a driver’s

license, which helps to verify if any there is any bogus card present.

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2. Requirements Analysis Design and Implementation

a) Calculate age and generate ALERTS regarding age based restrictions

Our application will capture birthday information whenever user will swipe

the driver license or state issued ID card and will provide customizable age

verification alert.

b) Fully support reading Credit Card and process them through Authorize. Net

Authorize. Net is a payment gateway which is used for secure transaction

with credit card.

c) Integrate E-Verify functionality from MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 to MiniCheck

DL Utility™

MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 is the application developed by previous

capstone team (spring 2009). Their application continued to enhance functionality

of E-Verify. E-Verify functionality was developed by MiniCheck ID Pro+™

capstone team (fall 2008). User can use E-Verify to verify individual’s

employment eligibility to work in United States. MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 also

uses Authorize. Net a payment gateway to process credit card transaction.

MiniCheck DL Utility™ is the application developed by MiniCheck-OCR,

Inc. team and it is the real world implication. Their application has updated parser

that supports even those driver licenses and state issued ID cards that do not follow

AAMVA standards. Their application has successfully integrated various devices

like Mini USB 3-Track MSR (Magtek), CardScan business card scanner, MICR

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Image (Magtek), Excella STX (Magtek) to scan and read credit cards and state

issued ID cards.

MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 application integrates the functionality from

MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 to MiniCheck DL Utility™, as MiniCheck DL

Utility™ has not yet been integrated to the functionalities like Authorize.Net and

E-Verify, thus making our project work on real world implication.

d) Maintain database for credit card transactions and for E-Verify

The team will create two databases using Microsoft Access. One will be

used to store information of credit card transaction and other to store case number

of E-Verify applications. User gets case number when they successfully submit

their initial verification form (I-9 form) used to verify employees eligibility to

work in United States. These case numbers are used to check the status of their

application.

e) Automatically compare between any common information contained on a credit

card to the corresponding information contained on a driver’s license or state

issued ID

The MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 application aims to enhance the

functionality of automatic comparison between any common information

contained on a credit card to the corresponding information contained on a driver’s

license or state issued ID on MiniCheck DL Utility™.

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f) To improve GUI (graphical user interface)

Our application aims to make the graphical user interface more users

friendly. Below attached are the screen shots of the same in appendix

g) Make functionality compatible with Windows XP and Vista and Windows 7

All features and functionality should be checked thoroughly to ensure they

work reliably with both Windows XP and Vista. Also, if possible than try to make

it compatible with Windows 7 also.

h) Integrating different scanner into existing application

Make sure that after integrating the functionality from MiniCheck ID

Pro+™ V1.2 to MiniCheck DL Utility™, our application MiniCheck ID Pro+™

V1.3 works well with different scanners.

i) Integrating PC Guard for protecting software applications from unauthorized use

Our application will use PC Guard which is a secure, reliable, compatible

and easy to use software protection system. PC Guard protects the computer from

file corruption, viruses, hacking and tampering, unwanted software installation,

accidental or intentional damage to the hard drives.

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3. Design and Implementation

3.1 Architecture Diagram

Figure 1. Architecture Diagram

When registered user swipes the card then MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 parse the data and

check which card is been swiped and open particular form to perform the next operations.

If it is the DL or any government issued ID then it will parse the data and scan the image of

ID or DL, after parsing data it will verify age and generate appropriate alert. If card is

credit card then it will pop up the particular form to make a payment, for payment it will

use the authorize.net as a gateway for secure transaction. The MiniCheck ID Pro+V1.3 will

save the information of the transaction and E-Verify case, which can be used afterward to

search the transaction done by credit card and case record ID of E-Verify response. PC

Guard is the utility which secure the code, and using PC Guard one can offer trial version

and register version of the MiniCheck ID Pro+v1.3.

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3.2 Flow Diagram

Whenever user swipes the card our application automatically detects if it a credit card or a

state issued ID card. Using E-Verify one can check the employment eligibility of the

person to work in United States. Authorize.Net is used to process credit card transaction.

This is explained using data flow diagram.

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Fig.2 Flow diagram

3.3 Technologies used

The application developed by MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 and MiniCheck DL Utility™

both uses C#/.NET framework. So even our application continue to use C#/.NET

framework. MS Access is used to create the database to store the transaction details of

credit card and for E-Verify to store case record of the employee. We also use web service

and XML technology to communicate with E-Verify interface and server. Atalasoft

software is used to convert raw images of barcode into useful information.

3.4 Software Development Model

While enhancing and improving upon the existing architecture and functionality of the

MiniCheck ID DL Utility application, we have used waterfall model where application is

divided into different phases like requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing

and maintenance.

3.5 Implementation Issues

Our project is to merge functionalities from MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.2 to MiniCheck

DL Utility™. When our team executed the project done by the previous capstone team

spring 2009(Team #6), the issue we faced was compiling those codes as it was giving

many compilation time errors. Almost half of the semester we were trying to solve this

issue. Finally we were able to understand that the entire problem is occurring because

of missing DLL files. So our team had to write almost all the codes from scratch.

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Other issue faced by our team was about Atalasoft license. Atalasoft is one of the

essential basic of our program and it need to be installed and configured on our

developing team machine. The problem was that MiniCheck has only one license which

was usually being used by previous capstone teams. But in our case MiniCheck had

already installed its license to other machine, so our team had to work without Atalasoft

software. So, our team worked with trial version of Atalasoft License, which is

available on the Atalasoft website for its online user’s. Our team downloaded trial

version of Atalasoft software on one of the machine, we got it running, but it had

limited access and will expire in 30 days.

The other issue was with PC Guard license. There was only one license to work with

and it was installed on MiniCheck DL Utility™’s team machine. Our team had to

remove the license from their machine and transfer it to one of our machine.

4. Features Implemented

4.1 Age Verification

The team implemented the functionality that automatically extract birthday information

from driver license or state issued ID cards to verify ages for alcohol, tobacco-related

products and fireworks to display appropriate messages.

4.2 Authorize. Net

The other feature implemented in MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 is Authorize.Net in our main

navigation form. Authorize.Net is a payment gateway for secure credit card transaction.

Whenever user swipe the credit card, FormDemo_CreditCard window appears which

automatically converts all the encoded information from the magnetic stripe of the card into

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readable form. When user clicks on the make payment button other window appears which

says that the transaction was successful and gives user the Transaction ID.

4.3 E-Verify

Our application further enhances the functionality of E-Verify and integrates it into

MiniCheck DL Utility™ application. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that allows user

to verify employees eligibility to work in United states. This feature is shown as one of the

options in our main navigation form. When the user select’s E-Verify then E-Verify login

window appears, after successfully logging in using Username and Password which is

provided by Department of Homeland Security, we have the option for Initial Verification

and View Case Status.

When Initial verification option is selected to verify employment eligibility of a user I-9

form appears, now the user have option either to fill the required fields manually or swipe

the state issued ID card either drivers license or State ID card and the encoded information

from the magnetic stripe is parsed and automatically stored in the I-9 form. When user

click on submit button he will get the message with submission successful along with his

case number.

When the View Case Status option is selected, then other window appears asking for the

case verification number, after submitting the case number the user can see the status of his

application. The three kind of response a user can receive are:

a) Employee Authorized that means that employee is authorized to work in United States.

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b) SSA Referral means that there is problem with employee’s social security at Social

Security Administration (SSA) during verification process. In this case the employees have

to go to SSA to solve the issue.

c) DHS Referral means that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is not able to verify

employee’s information and the employee is send DHS Tentative Nonconfirmation (TNC)

result. Thus, the case is send to Immigration Status Verifier to verify it.

4.4 PC Guard for .NET

MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 uses PC guard, a software protection system which is secure, reliable and compatible to protect our software from copyright infringement.

PC Guard:

Protects application from unauthorized use by providing user activation code.

Protect your software from reverse engineering and analyzing.

Easily create demo version of our application with execution, date, fixed date and timer limitations.

e.g. 10 days trial; 30 days trial; 90 days trials; 10 times trial, 20 times trial

After registration it gives an key (password) to access the application, so the registered user can use all functions of application after activation.

Application sends a activation key to user after submitting form by email and another email to MiniCheck OCR team to notify the new user.

4.5 Database for storing credit card transaction and for E-Verify

Our team has created an option button under Authorize.Net named transactions which is a

database, where all the transactions details are stored and has four options to search for the

particular transaction. Similarly, our team has created database for E-Verify and if user

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forgot his case number then he can search in the database by selecting the appropriate

search by value.

4.6 GUI (Graphical User Interface) improvement

Team has made the Graphical User Interface more users friendly. We have optimized

and refined the GUI according to our requirements. Where user has the option in the main

navigation form as to use E-Verify, Authorize.Net or can click on help button if need the

help.

4.7 Automatic comparison between credit card and any state issued ID card

The application we developed support reading Credit Cards which is processed through

Authorize.Net. Team has also created a feature so that we can automatically compare

common information contained on a credit card to the corresponding information contained

in the magnetic stripe or barcode on a driver’s license. Below attached the screen shot for

the same.

4.8 Windows Compatibility

The previous capstone teams have worked on this project using Windows XP and Vista

operating system. Our team has made this project Windows XP, Vista as well as Windows

7 compatible.

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5. Testing

Testing is one of the critical tasks in our application. Our team used Integration testing

method where we simultaneously tested the new features implemented in our project for its

consistency and reliability. Team tested using different credit cards and state issued ID

cards for automatic comparison between common information in these two cards.

6. Final Deliverables

The final deliverable is an .exe file, flash demo, source code and technical report. The .exe

file will install the MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 to the system. The flash demo will show

the working of entire project. Finally, source code and technical report will be submitted

along with the application package as a deliverable.

7. Conclusion

The application MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3 is an enhancement to MiniCheck ID

Pro+™ V1.2. All the requirements have been met. Users have the advantage to use E-

Verify to verify employee’s eligibility to work in United States. The user can also use

Authorize.Net as a secure way to process credit card transaction. It was a great experience

to work as a team on the real time project.

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8. References

[1] E-Verify Module, Department of Homeland Security,

“http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm “

[2] Credit card transaction gateway, Authorize.Net, www.authorize.net

[3] Software Development Model, “www.wikipedia.com”

[4] MiniCheckID Pro+™, Fall 2008 Capstone Team#1, “http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf08g1”

[5] MiniCheckID Pro+™v1.2, Spring 2009 Capstone Team#6,

“http://dcm.uhcl.edu/cap09g6/ “

[6] Image and barcode parser, Atalasoft , “www.atalasoft.com”

[7] Homeland Security Group, “Identity Theft”,http://www.isp.state.id.us/ID%20Theft.pdf”

[8] MiniCheck OCR Team, “MiniCheck DL Utility™”

[9] Demo Builder, “http://www.demo-builder.com/index.html?src=gde&gclid=CLWXnb-yu54CFQdiswodSVn2mg ”

[10] PC Guard for .NET, “http://www.sofpro.com/pcgw32.htm ”

[11] Install Shield, “http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installshield.htm”

Appendix A: Team roles and contribution

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http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installshield.htm

http://www.sofpro.com/pcgw32.htm

http://www.demo-builder.com/index.html?src=gde&gclid=CLWXnb-yu54CFQdiswodSVn2mg

http://www.demo-builder.com/index.html?src=gde&gclid=CLWXnb-yu54CFQdiswodSVn2mg

http://www.isp.state.id.us/ID%20Theft.pdf

http://www.atalasoft.com/

http://dcm.uhcl.edu/cap09g6/

http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf08g1

http://www.wikipedia.com/

http://www.authorize.net/

http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm


A.1 Team role

1. Fujie ShengMajor: Computer Information SystemRole: Team Leader/ Programmer/ Integrating tester

2. Chia-Ling YangMajor: Computer ScienceRole: Programmer/ Webmaster/ System Support

1. Yunis Al-QawasmehMajor: Computer ScienceRole: Programmer/ Integrating Tester/ System Support

2. S KedareMajor: Computer ScienceRole: Programmer/ Researcher/ Documentation

3. Monika Major: Computer ScienceRole: Programmer/ Database Administrator/ Documentation

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A.2 Team Contribution

Task Fujie Yunis Chia-Ling Kedare MonikaRequirement Analysis

20% 20% 20% 20% 20%

Research Work 17.5% 30% 17.5% 17.5% 17.5%

Team Website 15% 15% 40% 15% 15%

Coding

1. 1. E-Verify

2. 2. Authorize.Net

3. 3. PC Guard4.

16.7%

18.7%

25%

25%

18.7%

16.7%

25%

22%

16.7%

16.7%

18.7%

25%

16.7%

22%

16.7%

User Interface 25% 25% 16.7% 16.7% 16.7%

Documentation 16.7% 16.7% 16.7% 25% 25%

Data base 18.7% 22% 22% 18.7% 18.7%

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Testing 20% 20% 20% 20% 20%

Communication with Mentor and Instructor

20% 20% 20% 20% 20%

Creating API & Installer

22% 22% 18.7% 18.7% 18.7%

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Appendix B:

B.1 Images of Scanners used

MagTek USB Mini Card (black)

USB MagTek Excella STX

USB card scan

USB MICR Image

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B.2 Screen Shots

Fig 1. Main Navigational form of MiniCheck ID Pro+™ V1.3

Fig 2. Swipe card now

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Fig 3. This window appears when user swipe state issued ID card.

Fig 4. Scanned ID image

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Fig 5: Populated information and image form and age verification alert.

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Fig 6: Output screen when credit card information matches with driver license or state

issued ID card

Fig 7. Output screen when credit card information does not match with driver license or

state issued ID card.

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Fig 8. From for Credit card transaction

Fig 9 Response for approved transaction along with transaction ID

Fig 10. Database for credit card transaction with search options

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Fig 11. Example of search options

Fig. 12 Screen for printing transaction from database

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Fig 13. Sign In form of E-Verify utility

Fig. 14 Options under E-Verify

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Fig 15.Initial verification ( I-9) Form

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Fig 16. Response for submitted form along with case number

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Fig 17:

Fig 18:

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Fig 19. Database for E-Verify with search options

Fig 20. Example of search option

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Fig 21: screen shot of Activation option

Fig 22: Until the user activates using key all other options are disabled

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Fig 23: Until the user activates using key all other options are disabled

Fig 24: Asking for activation code in order to enable all features

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Fig 25: new user have to register to get activation code

Fig 26: Activation code is send to users email

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Fig 27: successful activation message

Fig 28: all features are now enabled which was previously disabled

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Fig 29: all features are now enabled which was previously disabled

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Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations

1. DL – Driver License

2. ID – Identification Card

3. GUI – Graphical User Interface

4. E-Verify – Employee Verification

5. DHS – Department of Homeland Security

6. SSA – Social Security Administration

7. TNC – Tentative Nonconfirmation

8. AAMVA – American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

9. HTML – Hypertext Markup Language

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