1. A method for capturing and quality classifying fingerprint images, the method comprising: generating, using a processing device, data representing a combined image of fingerprints of fingers scanned substantially simultaneously; determining, using the processing device, individual fingerprint areas and shapes in the combined image; separating, using the processing device, the combined image into individual fingerprint images having the fingerprint areas and shapes; and quality classifying, using the processing device, the separated individual fingerprint images into at least one of acceptable, possibly acceptable, and unacceptable.