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FBIBiospecs

FBI Biometric Specifications

Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS)

The FBI EBTS provides a description of all requests and responses associated with electronic fingerprint and other biometric identification services. The EBTS page contains the current and archived versions of the EBTS as well as the EBTS Compliance Tool Suite (ECTS).

The ECTS provides users the capability to validate an actual electronic transaction for EBTS compliance. The tool is a downloadable application that will run on your client.