You will need Acrobat Reader 4.0 to open all Mentalix documents available in PDF format. With Its Fingerprint ID System TRW Inc., a global Fortune 500 manufacturing and service company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, provides high-tech and engineering products as well as systems integration for the automotive and space and defense industries. Such is the case with TRW's fingerprint identification system currently being implemented for the police force fingerprint bureaus throughout England and Wales.
Officers submit searches to identify fingerprints and determine who committed a particular crime.
However, the scan driver was not intended for use with newer scanner models, and it caused the system to crash frequently. Additionally, the application had problems with error handling and did not provide repeatable results, Radley stated. The interface is very simple to use. Since it was already written, we were able to drop it into our system in two days. Because TRW often tests new workstations, the company also values the application's compatibility with multiple UNIX platforms.