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WSQ SDK
Griaule WSQ SDK is a Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows you to add compression, decompression and fingerprint image exchange capabilities into your AFIS systems.
WSQ format is the result of the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ), a Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Algorithm. Other compressed file formats, like jpeg and tiff, are not optimized for fingerprints: a fingerprint image stored in those formats would lose important information, becoming almost unreadable by an AFIS. WSQ file format, however, was made for compressing fingerprint images, achieving a high compression ratio and almost no loss of quality.
WSQ is widely used by FBI and many other agencies as the standard mechanism and format for exchanging and storage of fingerprint images. This makes your applications able to exchange images with similar ones, e.g., among the image databases of law enforcement agencies in a country.
Key Features
- The control you need: The file compression ratio is controlled by the application.
- Biometric compression for all: Supports all sizes of fingerprint, palm print and footprint images;
- The fingerprint image just as you need: File conversions between WSQ and TIFF, BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats;
- Biometric compression anywhere: Windows and Linux support;
- Independence of sensor: The software needs only the fingerprint image to be used;
- Easy and intuitive: Simple interface available as an ActiveX (COM) and DLL;
- Easy to learn: Lots of samples and the forum will help you integrating in a matter of hours!
- Use your preferred programming language: Wide range of supported programming languages;
- International merit: Certified by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation);
- Safe to purchase: 90-days trial available for download.