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What is BioAPI?

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What is BioAPI?

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BioAPI stands for Biometric Application Programming Interface. BioAPI is an International Standard ISO/IEC 19784-1 available for online purchase from the ISO website. You can find additional information on the BioFoundry® website. Why is BioAPI important? Any standard aims to bring a certain degree of interoperability in the industry. Two independent software implementations that obey a standard can be used, one “in place of” or “in addition to” the other. In a highly heterogeneous world such as the world of Biometrics today, the use of BioAPI makes it possible to achieve interoperability between different vendors and technologies that seemingly have in common only one thing: they all are meant to authenticate humans. Regardless of whether a technology uses iris recognition, fingerprint recognition or any other Biometric modality, the use of BioAPI makes it possible to write a Biometric application truly independent of the technology. I’ve heard that there are multiple versions of BioA

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