Software Providing Full Compliance with ANSI/INCITS and
ISO/IEC SC 37 Biometrics Standards

M1Pack is a software toolkit that can be used to manage biometric data in full compliance with the ANSI/INCITS and ISO/IEC 1 SC 37 biometric data interchange standards. M1Pack provides the ability to read, write, and validate ANSI/INCITS and ISO/IEC SC 37 compliant biometric data. It also includes WSQ, JPEG2000, and JPEG software for the compression of biometric images. 

The table below shows the INCITS M1 standard number and name next to the equivalent ISO/IEC SC 37 standard number and name.

These standards specify the formatting of biometric data objects that contain biometric images and technical metadata that describe the biometric and the equipment used to generate it. They can be interchanged as standalone objects or embedded as payloads within larger data interchange standards such as the ICAO LDS, used for the new e-passport. Each of these INCITS and ISO/IEC SC 37 biometric objects is wrapped with a CBEFF file header. 

The M1Pack biometric file engine uses a file configuration template to
convert biometric images and metadata to standard-compliant biometric data
objects or to parse biometric images and metadata from biometric data objects

• Software development kit with example programs and documentation
• Easy to use and understand 
• Re-entrant and threat safe
• Programmable in C/C++, Java, VB, and .NET
• Supports multiple finger images and finger minutiae data sets
• Ensures file structure and integrity
• Provides ISO/IEC or CBEFF/INCITS-M1 file packing, unpacking and reformatting
  - Provides conversion from proprietary formats to INCITS/M1 format
  - Provides conversion from INCITS/M1 to NIST/EFTS format
  - Import/Export of common image formats

• CBEFF/INCITS-M1 file content verification
• Includes Aware WSQ and Aware JPEG2000 compression engines
• Includes Aware fingerprint image quality API