Fingerprint Utility API Toolkit Features

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Fingerprint Utility API Toolkit

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Mentalix recommends that you take the online Guided Tour of the Fingerprint Scan API Toolkit, a multimedia demonstration which also covers the Fingerprint Utility API Toolkit, including screen shots and feature descriptions.

The Fingerprint Utility Brochure (PDF format) includes the feature list from this page, plus a product overview.

Custom Card Template Creation
The Toolkit provides routines that allow you to easily create fingerprint card templates to handle your international and custom fingerprint cards.

Cropping Functions
Cropping functions can be selected by the user prior to scanning the card. Depending on the method chosen, the program can locate the actual card borders and fingerprint areas of the scanned image, or it can crop the images based on user-defined measurements.

Auto-Border: Crops according to the detected print bounding lines.
Auto-Fixed: Crops according to detected position of print to the size defined by card template.
Card-based: Crops according to print measurements as defined by card template.
Auto-Print: Crops according to detected position of the print to the minimal bounding print area.

Card Validation
The program assesses the scanned image and produces a quality rating, based on factors such as skew, offset and card size consistency with template. The user can set the criteria that are utilized for determining the ratings.

Overscan Image Analysis Routines
The image analysis routines, based on a card offset detection algorithm, fully automate the overscan function (in Fingerprint Scan API Toolkit) for you. The routines allow you to create an interface that capitalizes on the overscan function without requiring your application to perform additional processing. The overscan image analysis routines accommodate and adjust for minor physical error in the placement of fingerprint cards on the scan bed without requiring intervention by the user, resulting in higher quality images and reducing re-scans.

Dynamic Loading of Fingerprint Libraries
Saves time for systems integrators when making changes. For example: Dynamic library loading allows you to switch libraries and use a different scanner model without recompiling the program.

Scanner Quality Testing
Mentalix views quality assurance as a high priority for all of our products. In keeping with FBI recommendations, we provide test routines within the Utility Toolkit that permit you to scan a test card and check your scanner's signal-to-noise ratio, geometric image accuracy, linearity, and Modulation Transfer Function (MTF). Run the test immediately upon receipt of your scanner, and then periodically (on a regular basis, depending on usage) to compare results over time and ensure that your equipment is functioning at or near its highest potential.

NIST File Creation
Easy-to-use routines support the creation of ANSI/NIST files, which are compatible with specialized NIST formats such as the FBI's EFTS standard. The NIST file format can be used for storing biographical data and images with fingerprint data. Mentalix's comprehensive data export routines include single-step image writing with WSQ (requires the Fast WSQ API Toolkit™), JPEG and CCITT group compression.

For information about available platform/scanner support, pricing and product documentation, contact us at (972) 423-9377 or send e-mail to info@mentalix.com.