Download or read book A Semi-automated Single Fingerprint Identification System written by J. H. Wegstein and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A system is described in which a fingerprint is manually coded by tracing certain ridges and noting events such as ridge endings and ridge beginnings.This code is sent by teleprinter to a central file where a computer identifies the fingerprint by comparing the code with codes previously entered in the file.The scheme for comparing codes is given along with some preliminary test results using typical fingerprints.(Author).