Absolutely false. Dispensaries, nightclubs: many if not most all retain information parsed from the AAMVA-encoded text within the PDF417 barcode on the back.

Absolutely false. Dispensaries, nightclubs: many if not most all retain information parsed from the AAMVA-encoded text within the PDF417 barcode on the back. Most of these devices aren't using OCR, either, because why would you when you have a 2D barcode standard?