AFIS is an acronym for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems. AFIS was developed by the police for identifying persons from a large record of files while the biometric fingerprinting system was developed for business purposes.
Identification of the biometric fingerprinting system is voluntary; the aim is to allow oneself to be identified; AFIS identification is not voluntary. It is used to search for someone that does not want to be found, for example, criminals.
AFIS identification takes time because it involves searching through a lot of files, while a biometric fingerprinting system takes seconds to identify a person. Biometric fingerprint has taken over the use of ID cards, passwords, and other methods of identifications.
In AFIS, all fingers from nail to nail; sometimes, it includes the ten fingers are captured while the biometric fingerprinting system only captures the portion of the finger.