The Regula 8003M is a portable system for verification of currency and / or ID documents.   It provides a wide range of lighting including White incident, white oblique, UV (A, B and C bands), IR, transmitted anti-stokes and OVD verification.  Images can be compared, annotated and stored with the notebook laptop provided in the kit.

The system consists of a notebook, charger, spectral luminescent magnifier (Regula 4177), Optical module Regula 4178, compact forensic magnifier Regula 1025 along with a transmitted light pad, software and a transit case.  It provides a compact and portable kit verification of documents.

As optional accessories the kit can be delivered also with a magnetic ink visualiser and reference currency and document databases.

Functionality

• Obtaining and processing images
• Examinations on different levels
  • protection of the document basis
    • paper opacity, watermarks, security fibres, planchets, security threads, holograms, foil stamping, pole feature, all types of windows, transparent vanish coating, shadow images, etc.
  • printing methods
    • intaglio: texts, guilloche frames, rosettes and vignettes, microprinting, latent images and moire patterns, signs for the visually impaired, blind embossing, colour shifting ink, including OVI with embossing and latent images, etc.
    • letterpress: serial numbers, texts, barcodes, etc.
    • offset printing: including Orlov and rainbow printing: texts, microprinting, moire patterns, background and anti-copy patterns, etc.
    • screen printing: security features with optically variable effects, etc.
    • see-through register
    • perforation.
  • physico-chemical protection
    • anti-Stokes luminescence
    • UV luminescence with different wavelength
    • IR luminescence
    • security features with magnetic properties, etc.
  • complex security features
    • holographic images, OVD
    • retroreflective protection
    • security features with IR-metameric ink
    • special polymer coating of security laminates
    • metallized coating
    • laser engraving
• Additional examination of
  • fragments of document images depending on the degree of absorption or reflection of IR light
  • document alterations such as erasure, etching etc.
  • traces of signature forgery
  • extraneous lines (do not originally belong to the examined object) that are performed with IR opaque inks
  • blurred, crossed out entries, texts and images
  • document mechanical defects such as cuts, tears, folds, etc.
• Optionally: detection of security elements with magnetic properties; including blurred and crossed out texts by Regula 4197

Application

• Border control and immigration services
• Customs authorities
• Law-enforcement agencies
• Forensic laboratories
• Financial institutions
• Other agencies and organizations authorized to check documents

Specifications

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions (length × width × height), mm, max — 500×385×135
• Total weight, kg, max — 10,5
• Power supply:
  • workstation battery pack:
    • power supply voltage, V — 14,4
  • AC mains
• Power consumption, W, max — 70
• Workstation autonomous operation, hours, min — 5
• Battery pack charging time after being fully discharged, hours, max — 2
• Workstation warm-up time, min, min — 3

PC requirements

• Minimum configuration:
  • OS — Microsoft  Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)
  • processor — Intel® Core™ i5 3.0 GHz
  • RAM, GB — 4
  • minimum free disk space, GB — 1
  • display resolution, pixels — 1600×1200
  • connection interface — USB 3.0
• Recommended configuration:
  • OS — Microsoft Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)
  • processor — Intel® Core™ i7 3.4 GHz
  • RAM, GB — 16
  • minimum free disk space, GB — 1
  • display resolution, pixels — 1920×1200 or higher
  • connection interface — USB 3.0