Optical Magnetic Stripe Reading

What it does

In this article we provide information on how to visually decode the data stored on a magnetic stripe card. We make use of the Q-View magnetic developer which contains 1-3um iron powder according to the datasheet. We attempt to decode the 2nd track on the card, which is stored at 75 bpi, as opposed to 210 bpi for track 1. I would like to try to decode track 1 at some point, once I’ve taken microscope images of the stripe through a metallurgical microscope, as the image I obtained from my scanner doesn’t seem high enough resolution to decode this track. Any magnetic fields on a magnetic stripe (either north or south) will attract the iron powder, which creates a visually…from anfractuosity.com

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