For example, if you swipe your credit card or driver's license, it will recognize it, and show you all of your personal information that is stored on that card! Although, since this setup outputs data directly to the serial port of the computer, I'm sure that with a little code hacking it wouldn't be too hard to get this reader to interface directly to Stripe Snoop. Download the Dell Barcode and Magnetic Stripe Reader Module driver.
Series MSR Manager Utility for USB interface Magnetic Stripe Card Reader. This document shows how a merchant can read the magnetic stripes on customers credit cards when entering orders, to increase the speed and.
This software requires a slightly more complicated hardware setup, but comes with a database of known card formats and will attempt to parse human-readable data out of any card that you swipe through it. , Posiflex USB Virtual Com Port Driver for Windows, V5.19k, 1.6 MB. section of this document will address how the MFP will indicate that a non-supported reader is connected. It also contains information about the standard formatting of the tracks on magnetic stripes, which is helpful in interpreting data that you get from the setup shown in this instructable. Stripe Snoop Stripe Snoop reads the contents of a magstripes (Track 1, 2, or 3) through different hardware interfaces and not only displays the contents, but uses a CDDB-like database of card formats to try and figure out what the contents mean. This document is pretty much the bible on the nuts and bolts (volts?) of how magnetic stripes physically work. Carddump is a C.Net open source program designed for simple access of serial magnetic card readers. If you're interested in learning more about magnetic stripe cards, the attached article, "A Day in the Life of a Flux Reversal" by Count Zero is required reading.