Hi,

obviously I am not Daniel, but I can answer your questions

upekts does *not* support identification, due to a difference in its inner 
workings (it uses the hardware itself to do the matching, and the part of the 
protocol used for identification or image functions is not known, although the 
device itself is capable of such functions with windows)

any other image-based sensor (i.e. sensor with driver that actually uses 
libfprint for matching) will do identification, though

don't quite understand what you mean by "image" sensor, as swipe sensors also 
provide a result as an image, or rather a series of image that is used to 
reconstruct the fingerprint.
the difference between touch and swipe sensors is that swipe sensors are 
smaller, capable of providing longer (and variable length) images, somewhat 
more difficult to use, and the driver is a little bit more complicated (due to 
the image reconstruction part).
one more quirk of touch based sensors is you leaving the actual fingerprint 
right on the device, but that is probably irrelevant

hope that helps
Pavel Herrmann

On Saturday 29 May 2010 02:06:21 Martin Green wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Quick one:
> 
> Does the upekts driver support identification?  i.e. scan 20 people, then
> scan 1 person and identify them?
> 
> I can't quite tell from your web page
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Martin Green
> 
> P.S. I also can't figure out if a swipe sensor is better than an image
> sensor or vice versa?!
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