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Fap

Acronym for Fingerprint Acquisition12 Profile. It is a series of sets of progressivelymore stringent parameters and requirements relevant to fingerprint acquisition.[2015a>] In the Mobile ID Best Practices Recommendations Version 1, face, finger andiris application profiles were all referred to as SAP. They are referred to separately inthis standard. This was changed in Mobile ID Best Practices RecommendationsVersion 2 to be consistent with this standard. [

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update:2015 Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information. ANSI/National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2011. Source link