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NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT)

Published by National Institute of Standards and Technology | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Catalog Last Checked: August 26, 2026 at 09:46 PM | Dataset Last Updated: July 28, 2022
The NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT) is a cross-platform GUI application which allows a user to load a pair of fingerprint images, find corresponding points in both images, register and crop the images, and finally compute a series of measurements on the registered images as described in NIST Special Publication 500-336

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  • DOI Access for NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT)

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  • NFRaCT_Ubuntu_x86_64_1.1.0.AppImage

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  • NFRaCT 1.3.3 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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  • NFRaCT 1.3.3 for Windows 10 (x64)

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  • NFRaCT 1.3.3 for macOS 11.6+

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  • NFRaCT README

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  • Source code for the version of the Qt Framework used to build NFRaCT 1.3.3

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  • NFRaCT_Schema_1.2.0.xsd

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  • XML Schema Definition for results generated by NFRaCT version 1.3.0

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  • NFRaCT_Schema_1.0.0.xsd

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  • NFRaCT_Changelog

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Complete Metadata
@type dcat:Dataset
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity irregular
bureauCode 
[
  "006:55"
]
contactPoint 
{
  "fn": "John Grantham",
  "hasEmail": "mailto:john.grantham@nist.gov"
}
description The NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT) is a cross-platform GUI application which allows a user to load a pair of fingerprint images, find corresponding points in both images, register and crop the images, and finally compute a series of measurements on the registered images as described in NIST Special Publication 500-336
distribution 
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    "description": "DOI Access for NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT)"
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    "description": "NFRaCT 1.1.0 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS",
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identifier ark:/88434/mds2-2734
issued 2025-02-05
keyword 
[
  "Biometrics",
  "Fingerprint",
  "Image Analysis"
]
landingPage https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2734
language 
[
  "en"
]
license https://www.nist.gov/open/license
modified 2022-07-28 00:00:00
programCode 
[
  "006:045"
]
publisher 
{
  "name": "National Institute of Standards and Technology",
  "@type": "org:Organization"
}
replaces ark:/88434/mds2-2734
theme 
[
  "Information Technology:Biometrics"
]
title NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT)

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