FingerJetFX

Digital Persona, Inc., global solution provider of security for workstations, opened in November, 2011 the FingerJetFX code, the certified technology of processing of fingerprints. FingerJetX OSE (Open Source Edition) — free cross-platform software, allowing to transform the scanned prints to mathematical representation (a so-called "dactyloscopic image") for the subsequent storage or checking.

Release of the source code it was announced at the CARTES & IDentification conference which took place in Paris. The FingerJetFX OSE project is entirely available on GitHub. The software is distributed under the license Lesser GNU Public Licence (LGPL) with a number of restrictions, including prohibition on use of the registered names "FingerJet" and "FingerJetFX" for the modified versions of the program (it is possible to study the complete list of restrictions on the official page of a product).

There is also commercial version of software including function of fingerprint recognition. As Jim Fulton, the vice president of the company noted, existence of the open version of the program, along with proprietary, should give to producers and users of the biometric flexibility systems in the choice of the suitable solution.

FingerJetFX differs in compactness and high-speed performance, occupying only 128 KB spaces of the code and 128 KB of data space. Software works at 32-bit and 64-bit processor architecture and also 32-bit microcontrollers, and does not require for operation of the specific hardware, such as digital signal processors or math coprocessors.

The program is written using autonomous (self-contained) C ++. There are versions for Linux, Android, Windows, Windows CE, real-time operating systems and the built-in systems. The program can work with the eight-bit images in shades of gray received from any scanner or from base of fingerprints. The technology is certified by National Institute of standards and technologies of the USA.

Technologies of biometric identification are used in many areas where protection against fraud, such as electronic voting systems, payment terminals, commercial software for retail, health care, financial accounting is required. FingerJetFX allows such systems to exchange biometric data in the standardized formats with a broad spectrum of applications, devices and databases. The technology can be integrated into chips, fingerprint scanners and mobile devices and also to use on the PC and database servers together with any standard software for dactyloscopic comparison.