Traduction de «Image numérisée » (Français → Anglais) :

As regards passports, the objective is to render the passport more secure by integrating two biometric identifiers: a digitized image of the face and the image of two fingerprints; the security of passports is important for reasons relating to border controls: on the one hand, bona fide citizens will pass through border controls more smoothly; on the other hand, those who use forged or fraudulent passports will have fewer chances of entering our territory.

The scanning resolution of the images shall be 500 pixels/inch with 256 grey-levels.

The scanning resolution of the images shall be 500 pixels/inch with 256 grey-levels.

They have announced that – I believe as of August – they will require air and vessel carriers to collect 10 fingerprints and facial scans of all travellers and to submit this information to the Department of Homeland Security within 24 hours.

Member States have begun issuing biometric passports[14] containing the digitised facial image of the holder since August 2006, and will from 28 June 2009 issue passports containing also the holder's fingerprints[15].

There are certainly still a number of problems: finding funding partners in the private sector; avoiding, as far as possible, different rates of digitisation between Member States; solving certain technical aspects relating to the coordination of access to digitised works; preserving digitised content; resolving the issue of the integrated search engine for meta-information in image documents and for direct searching of text documents; finding content interoperability solutions, and enabling multilingual searching by subject or keyword in addition to the current situation of searching by author or title.