It would be nice if you could scan a barcode on a drivers license and get the name, address, birthday info
*** Bug 23877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would be interested in seeing a tool in the new patron form that would allow you to scan the barcode on the driver's license and grab information like patron name, birth date, address, etc, and fill in the appropriate fields. Data appears to be marked, similar to SIP data. We could make it so libraries could select what data is imported from the license, and format it properly.
This might be a good candidate for a plugin since the functionality would be US-specific.
(In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #3) > This might be a good candidate for a plugin since the functionality would be > US-specific. +1 !
We would love to have this functionality. We already scan the drivers license barcode into an authorized value in our patron records. It would be great if it could be set up to do that in addition to capturing the standard name, address, and DOB info.
It looks like there is a plugin now for doing exactly this :) https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-drivers-license-scanner Not sure if I should close this WONTFIX or FIXED... as the plugin is strictly speaking not in Koha. I am picking MOVED :)