Infrared scanners for recording fingerprints and Linux
Anyone done anything with this? A friend has asked me to build a system to record a child's fingerprints, photos, and general characteristics in a user friendly manner and write the data to a "business card cd". Doing all from a laptop. I can handle the photo and the user-friendly interface easily enough, but don't know where to start with the IR fingerprint scanner. Also, I'm not entirely sure an IR fingerprint is the way to go. Brian Densmore CompuTech Business Solutions, Inc. (816) 880-0988 ext. 215 densmoreb@ctbsonline.com
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:31 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
A friend has asked me to build a system to record a child's fingerprints, photos, and general characteristics in a user friendly manner and write the data to a "business card cd".
A conventional scanner would give you the flexability to take fingerprints, palmprints, and/or footprints. That would probably be a better way to go. The fingerprint scanners I've seen are mostly intended to take a single, adult finger.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
A conventional scanner would give you the flexability to take fingerprints, palmprints, and/or footprints. That would probably be a better way to go. The fingerprint scanners I've seen are mostly intended to take a single, adult finger.
Does a conventional scanner have enough resolution and/or contrast to pick up the ridges in a fingerprint? Would it show all of the loops, arches, and whorls, or a picture of a finger?
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:33 am, Gerald Combs wrote:
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
A conventional scanner would give you the flexability to take fingerprints, palmprints, and/or footprints. That would probably be a better way to go. The fingerprint scanners I've seen are mostly intended to take a single, adult finger.
Does a conventional scanner have enough resolution and/or contrast to pick up the ridges in a fingerprint? Would it show all of the loops, arches, and whorls, or a picture of a finger?
I was thinking of taking a conventional print first, then scanning that.
fingerprintamerica.com .... what's the point of the "business card CD" that seems short-sighted to me, and inappropriately techie approach. On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:31:03 -0600, Brian Densmore <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com> wrote:
Anyone done anything with this? A friend has asked me to build a system to record a child's fingerprints, photos, and general characteristics in a user friendly manner and write the data to a "business card cd". Doing all from a laptop. I can handle the photo and the user-friendly interface easily enough, but don't know where to start with the IR fingerprint scanner. Also, I'm not entirely sure an IR fingerprint is the way to go.
Brian Densmore
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