LiveScan API is a software development kit (SDK) that provides a common interface for fingerprint capture across over forty types of single finger, multi-finger, and palm capture devices. It enables applications to use different hardware for fingerprint collection without code changes, and ensures high-quality, standards-compliant fingerprint images through real-time analysis and autocapture logic.

Key Features

Device Abstraction

• Abstracts hardware interfaces for seamless integration with multiple fingerprint scanners.
• Supports over forty device types, including live scan, single/dual finger, and capacitive sensors.
• New hardware support added in SDK updates.

Real-Time Image Analysis and Capture Logic

• Performs real-time fingerprint segmentation and bounding box definition.
• Conducts ridge flow-based image quality scoring.
• Detects and measures leftness, rightness, and finger angle.
• Identifies missing fingers and detects fingers on platen edges.
• Automatically captures images only when quality targets are met, reducing recapture needs.

Quality Assurance

• Programmable quality targets and thresholds for each capture.
• Dramatically improves capture speed and workflow efficiency.
• Enables collection of a full set of ten flat fingerprints in as little as ten seconds.

Integration with Other Products

• Output can be combined with biographical data for FBI/NIST-compliant fingerprint records using Aware’s NISTPack libraries.

Benefits

Workflow Efficiency

• Reduces time and effort for fingerprint collection.
• Minimizes recapture rates through real-time quality checks.

Flexibility

• One application can support multiple hardware devices.
• Future-proofs systems as new hardware becomes available.

Compliance

• Ensures high-quality, standards-compliant fingerprint images.
• Supports creation of records acceptable for civil background checks.