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From: jimd@hpcvra.HP.COM (Jim Donnelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Finger print scanners
Message-ID: <5120001@hpcvra.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 04:19:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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	Fingerprint scanners and databases have been at use at FBI
	and NCIC for years.  The newer models (recent 5 years) have
	reduced scan and search time dramatically.  There is a
	constant effort to bring paper records into the system, to
	the tune of hundereds per day.  It's still years away from
	the time local departments will be able to access the
	database over a network.

	Jim Donnelly
	jimd@hp-pcd