# Overview

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#### What is Preventor?

Preventor is a suite of customizable identification tools including liveness detection, document verification, facial recognition, and more. These tools are combined to estimate the authenticity of a user's true identity. 

#### **How it works**

A **User** submits a video selfie and valid identifying **Resources** during a **Verification** guided by the Preventor client-side integration. Once all the necessary **Resources** are submitted, **Data points** are extracted, digitized, and authenticated. These **Data points** then become part of the **User's Identity**. The **User** then consents to share **Resources** and/or **Data points** from their **Identity** with you. This information is passed to you and can be used to make decisions about a **User** (e.g. activate account). 

This table below explains our terminology further.

| Term                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Identity**         | A set of **Data points** and **Resources** related to and owned by one single **User**. This data can be accessed by you through a **Verification**                                                                                                                                       |
| **Resource**         | A source document used to generate the **Data points** for a **User** (E.g. Passport).                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Data point**       | Any data about a **User** extracted from a **Resource** (E.g. Passport Number, or Age).                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **User**             | The owner of an **Identity.**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| **Verification**     | A transaction through which a **User** consents to share **Data points** with you. If the **Data points** you request are not already available in the **User**'s **Identity**, the Preventor client will ask the **User** to submit the necessary **Resource** required to extract them. |
| **Client-side SDKs** | Language specific packages you can use to integrate Preventor into your website or app (E.g.Android, Web-component) .                                                                                                                                                                     |

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#### You can find a full list of Data points by checking out [our full API specification here](https://api-reference.preventor.com).

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