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Sur un procédé d’identification permettant de retrouver le nom d’un récidiviste au moyen de son seul signalment, et pouvant servir de cadre pour une classification de photographies à la préfecture de police, à la sûreté générale, au ministé de la justice, etc.

Alphonse Bertillon, 1881

About an identification process that enables finding the name of a repeat offender based on his description only, and that can be used in the context of a classification of photographs at the police headquarters, for general security, at the ministry of justice, etc.

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Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Second Edition, Springer, 2015.

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