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New Software Improves Rigor of Latent Fingerprint Examination

Date Published
January 21, 2018

There is no standard method of detailed documentation of the latent print examination process, but researchers have developed software that improves the standardization and quantifiability, implemented as part of the FBI’s Universal Latent Workstation.