Aussie bank Westpac lets your smartphone’s camera activate new bank cards

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[1] Westpac customers will from this month be able to use their smartphone’s camera to activate new debit and credit cards.

[2] The bank had developed an optical character recognition technology into its Westpac Live mobile banking application that enables customers to scan their new card, confirm the details, and activate.

[3] The OCR technology converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text captured by a camera into searchable data, bypassing the lengthy phone or physical queues to activate their new cards.

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[Source] Australian Information Technology News – Aussie bank Westpac lets your smartphone’s camera activate new bank cards