It appears that Michael StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >On 1/16/2024 6:02 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: >> The app is fairly easy to use although I had some issue getting it to read >> my passport photo page, but it eventually read the chip instead via NFC. > >The scan of your passport page is used to gather data derive a key to >read the chip, rather than for the purpose of data gathering about you. >You are always going to have to do both. The photo page has a bunch of text at the bottom intended for OCR. I have checked in to fligts with apps that take a picture of the photo page and read that text. The info in the NFC chip is a superset of that OCR text, including a digitized picture, so it's not obvious why it even looks at the photo page. R's, John
