
Biometric recognition applications have traditionally required expensive, complicated products and multiple licenses. This competitive comparison table shows how Fingerprint SDK differs from the software developed by the fingerprint reader manufacturers and from other biometric recognition products.
| Feature | Fingerprint SDK |
Fingerprint reader manufacturer software [?] |
Other biometric recognition products [?] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Fingerprint Reader support | Yes | No | No |
| Support for several fingerprint readers | Yes | No | No |
| Recognition quality and speed | Very high | Usually slow | Usually slow |
| Supports Linux PC | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| NIST FpVTE LST evaluated | Yes | No | Usually not |
| Free trial version available | Yes | No | No |
| Support for ActiveX, DLL, Java, .NET | Yes | No support or Additional fee | No support or Additional fee |
| Publicly available support forum | Yes | No | No |
| Large scale, standardization and AFIS experience | Yes | No | No |
| Hardware-free licensing | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| In-house state-of-art technology development and research | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |