Fingerprint Identification - Was Re: Whitebox Linux

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Ter, 2004-01-13 às 19:35, Benjamin J. Weiss escreveu:

> > I've been discussing about this exact matter today with a friend of
> > mine. Is there any public APIs, drivers, programs, for fingerprint
> > identification? Or at least drivers for those fingerprint readers?
> > Thanks for the info - this is going to be very valuable to me.
> And I'm sorry to have to disappoint you. :(  I work for a US state law
> enforcement agency, and we use Motorola's PrinTrak solution.  It's big
> money, for law enforcement agencies, but it rocks!  And it lets us
> communicate with the FBI and the other states for records searches.

I was not thinking that high, but it's ok :-)

> I believe that the search algorithm is proprietary, though the hardware is
> available from multiple sources.

The search algorythm does not matter, the important thing is an open api
to extracting the fingerprints from the device - just that :-)

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