Infrared scanners for recording fingerprints and Linux

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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.