Abstract :Abstract— With the technological advancement the need of identifying the person with respect to its imprints has taken its hives so a recent idea to detect and acknowledge the person with image processing algorithm has been implemented to identify fingerprints. It is used in many real time applications such as in forensic science, security needs and many more.The algorithm implemented reveals the difficult task of matching the images of finger print of a person with the finger print present in the database efficiently. The imprints formed by friction ridges of skin and thumbs are effectively matched with the reference data. The imprint is unique among the people and changes from person to person so algorithm serves the best purpose. The paper illustrates recognition method using various approaches which is based on minutiae located in fingerprints and frequency content and ridge orientation of fingerprints.The algorithm used is implemented through image acquisition amd image processing of MATLAB finger print..