Hi On Wednesday 30 of July 2014 09:47:32 Jimmy Jeppesen wrote: > Hi > > I am writing an application that will need to read a fingerprint and then > compare this to a series of previously scanned images and report back which > file matched. > > The matched file then corresponds to a given user and I can proceed from > there. > > I have googled high and low, and it seems like libfprint is not suited for > this purpose - Am I right? :-)
nope libfprint provides two operations - verify and identify verify asks you to use a specific finger and check against it, while identify gets a fingerprint and tries to match it to any sample in the set see (slightly archaic) http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/api/ how this is handled in fprintd I have no idea, sorry > > If not, which programs do I need (or which parameters to frpintd-verify)? > > Thanks, > Jimmy > > ps, thanks for the help with installation - It was indeed the Debian > version on APT that was too old and a hand.compiled version worked out of > the box. regards Pavel Herrmann _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
