Overview
- EFTS stands for Electronic fingerprint transmission specification
- Defines how fingerprint and demographic data are transmitted within the context of ANSI standard
Structure
- Type 1 record
- Exactly one type 1 record
- Contains header info: date, version, transaction id, etc.
- Type 2 recrod
- Exactly one type 2 record
- Contains demographic information: name, address, ssn, rap sheet, etc.
- Type 4 record
- High resolution greyscale fingerprint images (WSQ compressed)
- Fourteen type 4 records:
One for each finger, one for each thumb, one for each palm print - Type 13 record
- Latent fingerprint images (uncompressed)
- Type 14
- Low resolution fingper print images (maybe WSQ compressed)