Abstract: 1. Touchless biometric recognition 2.1 The invention is underlied by the problem to specify a method of the type initially mentioned, with which an improved touchless biometric recognition is possible cheaply. 2.2 According to the invention, the problem is solved by mutually carrying out the observing, checking and/or correcting using the imaging facilities respectively and thereby acquiring position, attitude and degree of rotation. 2.3 The invention relates to a method for touchless recognition of biometric attributes of a body part, in particular of finger lines, comprising optical imaging from different points of view by several imaging facilities, observing and/or checking the position and/or the attitude of the body part to be recognized and/or correcting the images of the imaging facilities regarding the position and/or the attitude, wherein the shape of the body part is used.