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The world’s first FBI-certified contactless 3D fingerprint scanner

CFS captures true 3D fingerprints with structured light, then converts them to 2D — fully compatible with every major fingerprint database in use today.

Key message

500 ppi image resolution

Fully interoperable

Zero surface contact

High-throughput

Seamless access

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ID flats

High-speed contactless 4-4-2 fingerprint capture

CFS is IDloop’s flagship contactless 3D fingerprint scanner, designed to capture four fingerprints simultaneously with exceptional speed and accuracy. Instead of taking just a simple photo, the CFS records the microscopic 3D geometry of each fingerprint. It delivers consistent, distortion-free biometric fingerprint data independent of lighting conditions, skin moisture or color, and motion. Therefore, not only can CFS be used for verification, but also for enrollment of fingerprints into government databases.

Because CFS captures all ten fingerprints without a single touch, it eliminates the problems that come with surface contact. There’s no bacterial or viral transfer — a fundamental safety requirement in hospitals, healthcare registration points, and any high-traffic public location. It retains no latent prints, so there are no residual fingerprints to trigger false matches or leave a replicable biometric trail behind. It carries no cleaning overhead: no protocols, consumables, compliance burden, or hygiene costs between users.

Palm

Advanced contactless palm print acquisition

CFS palm is the palm modality of the CFS family. It is designed to reconstruct and unroll the full palm surface. Because of the contactless capture it reaches the parts of the hand that contact scanners struggle with: the concave centre of the palm and the writer’s palm along the outer edge.

A palm naturally curves inward, but a contact scanner’s platen is flat. Where the two don’t meet — the pocket at the centre of the palm — a “dead spot” forms and biometric detail is simply lost. To force the concave centre into contact, operators press the hand down hard against the platen. But pressure is its own enemy: pressing pliable skin against a flat surface distorts the ridge pattern, and contact capture already carries a higher rate of partial or degraded images from skin deformation, slippage and smearing.

One touchless capture records the palm easily for your palmprint databases and seamless verification and access.

Roll | Coming soon

Contactless rolled fingerprint capture

CFS roll is the rolled-print modality of the CFS family. Utilizing the same hardware as the CFS and upgraded software tuned to reconstruct a full nail-to-nail print. Rolled fingerprints remain the standard for law enforcement and are required across a wide range of civil and applicant background checks. They exist because the latent prints left at a crime scene often come from the sides of the finger— and because their larger surface area carries more minutiae, which increases comparison accuracy. Conventional rolling requires a trained officer to hold the subject’s finger and hand and physically rotate them against a rigid platen, and the speed and pressure of that roll introduce distortion into the image. Poor print quality — smudged, faint, or incomplete impressions — is the single most common reason fingerprint submissions of rolled prints are rejected and take up a lot of time.

CFS roll removes the platen from the equation entirely. Because capture is contactless, there is no surface to smear against and no need for an operator to press or rotate the finger — the distortion introduced by rolling speed and pressure simply cannot occur.

3D Capture
2D Compatibility

Step 1

Scanning

The skin surface is scanned by a structured light pattern.

Step 2

Reconstruction

The captured scan data is reconstructed into a high precision 3D point cloud, preserving the full surface geometry and ridge detail.

Step 3

Unwrapping

A proprietary unwrapping algorithm converts the 3D geometry into a 500-ppi grayscale fingerprint image that conforms to FBI PIV image quality standards and is compatible with existing government databases.

Performance Metrics

8M data points

per scan

13 point clouds

per second

100 ms

scan speed

500 ppi

output resolution

Interoperability

Works with the infrastructure you already have.

Organizations don’t need to replace their existing biometric backend to adopt CFS. The system generates fingerprint data that integrates with established contact-based databases while maintaining highest compatibility with existing comparison algorithms.

When comparing fingerprint images from contact-based scanners against CFS and other contactless systems like Android and iPhone captures, results show that CFS outperforms smartphone camera systems, because of the superior 3D technology. The CFS images match very well to current government fingerprint databases, making it the best choice for contactless government applications.

High-Throughput

Built for queues that can’t afford to stop.

Designed for high-volume enrollment and identity verification, CFS captures four fingerprints in less than 2 seconds and can complete a standard 4-4-2 capture sequence in under six seconds. Fast acquisition enables governments and organizations to process more people while ensuring seamless user experience, for example in high-throughput areas like airports, sea ports, civil identity registration centers and visa processing centers.

With the contactless advantage, delays caused by cleaning, inconsistent finger placement or varying skin and lighting conditions will be eliminated. Users can be scanned quickly and consistently with minimal need for repeated captures, maximizing operational efficiency.

A single 4-4-2 enrollment

Step 1

4 fingers, left hand

< 2 s

Step 2

4 fingers, right hand

< 2 s

Step 3

2 thumbs

< 2 s

Step 4

Output ready

Less than 6 six seconds total

Contactless Hygiene

The contactless advantage is setting security standards of the future.

With old contact-based capture fingers pressed to a platen are a hygiene risk, a smear left for the next user, and one more press wearing down a surface that will eventually need cleaning, servicing, or replacing. The residual prints left behind, so called ghost prints, are also a security problem, because they can lead to false matches and leave a biometric trail sitting on the glass, readable by anyone.

CFS settles that tab by removing the surface entirely. With no contact of the fingerprints required on a surface during capture, there is nothing to disinfect between users, nothing to smear, and nothing to abrade. Hygiene is absolute, queues move faster, and the hardware’s operational lifespan is prolonged. For any agency responsible for critical infrastructure, borders, or public-facing enrollment, this is the important upgrade that raises security, speed, and safety at the same time.

Security for Critical Infrastructure

Measurement, not interpretation — critical security starts at capture.

Most contactless fingerprint systems photograph a finger in 2D and then infer what they’re looking at. CFS doesn’t infer — it measures. Using structured light, it captures the true 3D geometry of every ridge and valley, which removes the sources of error that undermine 2D capture at the point where it matters most: identity.

The result are unique biometric features you can trust in the settings where trust is non-negotiable: critical infrastructure, where access must be certain; law enforcement, where the difference between a correct and an incorrect match is the difference between the innocent and the guilty; and border control, where verifying who someone is carries the highest possible stakes.

And because CFS captures microscopic depth instead of just a photo, it holds information a flat fake fingerprint simply can’t reproduce. That 3D data gives the system a foundation for presentation attack detection — distinguishing a real finger from a printed or replicated fake.

Because it measures real geometry rather than interpreting a flat image, CFS eliminates four failure modes that quietly erode fingerprint reliability:

Perspective Distortion

Lighting Dependency

Scaling Errors

Polarity Inversion

Cutting-Edge Contactless Biometric Solution: the CFS

Wherever identity matters and speed counts

Border control & airports

High-volume, high-security acquisition without queuing bottlenecks. Works in outdoor lighting. No cleaning delay between travelers.

Law enforcement

FBI-certified output feeds AFIS databases. Captures difficult skin types where contact scanners fail. No latent prints left behind.

Civil enrollment

Fast, dignified capture for national ID, voter rolls, and benefits programs. Hygienic for high-footfall enrollment drives, with clean data that holds up on deduplication.

Healthcare

Zero surface contact means zero cross-contamination risk. Hygienic by design, in the environments where it matters most.

FAQs

Answers to common questions about capabilities, setup, and use cases.

How does CFS capture a fingerprint without contact?

CFS projects a known pattern of structured blue light onto the finger. The ridge-and-valley structure deforms that pattern, a camera images the deformation, and the 3D surface is reconstructed through triangulation — capturing millions of 3D points per scan at micron-level precision.

Will it work with our existing fingerprint databases?

Yes. An unwrapping algorithm converts each 3D scan into a FBI certified, standard 500 ppi, ISO/IEC 19794-4 Compliant 2D Image Format, so CFS is compatible with today’s contact-based 2D fingerprint infrastructure. That means it can be used for both verification and enrollment against existing databases — you adopt touchless capture without replacing your back-end systems.

Is CFS FBI certified?

Yes — CFS holds the FBI PIV-0710006 certification and is the world’s first full 3D contactless fingerprint scanner with this certification, which makes it suitable for high-security government, border control and law enforcement use where certified image quality is required.

How does it perform in real-world conditions?

CFS is designed to capture reliably regardless of temperature change, humid conditions, ambient lighting, finger motion, skin tone variation, and skin moisture — the common failure points for contact-based readers. This consistency is what makes it viable for high-traffic public settings like airports and border checkpoints.

How fast is a scan, and how many fingers does it capture?

It captures four flat fingerprints simultaneously in less than two seconds, significantly faster than contact-based devices, especially for difficult skin types like very dry or wet skin.

What are the hygiene and security benefits of going contactless?

Because users never touch the device, there’s no transfer of bacteria, viruses or chemicals between people. It also leaves no latent prints on a scanning surface — which removes a real security risk, since residual prints can cause false matches on contact readers.

Where is CFS used?

It’s built for demanding, high-throughput environments: border control and airports, critical infrastructure, banking and financial services, enterprise access control, and law enforcement — anywhere that needs high-security identification without physical contact.