Fingerprint recognition is the most effective and largely utilized method of biometrics used to identify and verify the identity of an individual. This is because fingerprints are one of those inexplicable twists of nature that all human beings happen to naturally have built-in, literally at their fingertips. All humans have tiny ridges and valleys of skin on their fingertips, formed through a combination of genetic and environmental factors, building unique fingerprints for each human being. Even identical twins have unique fingerprints. Such unique biometric trait set the platform to build fingerprint recognition systems.