Hi,

I've been retrying, scanning my finger as per Igor's instructions (see
below).

For the reminder, my fingerprint scanner is a  04f3:0c01, and my laptop
is a Dell Inspiron 7000.

Observations on using the fingerprint scanner:
- scanning a finger with libfprint on a  04f3:0c01 is different than the 
fingerprint scanners I'm used to (e.g. the typical smartphone scanner, where 
you just place your finger on the scanner and expect it to read your 
fingerprint correctly).
- In order for libfprint to successfully read your fingerprint, you need to 
swipe your finger on the scanner, like that: 
http://docs.esupport.sony.com/pc/SVS1311_13A1_1511_series/EN/contents/03/17/07/01/01/01/01/02/02.png
- Using this method to scan my finger, the image produced by the scanner seems 
to be of an acceptable quality.

Success rates:
- After I've enrolled my finger, I ran the verification 10 times, and it 
successfully matched it to my enrolled finger 6 times.

The scanner seems to be extremely sensitive to the movement you're doing
to enroll your finger - if there is any variation (e.g. swipe slightly
less, or slighly more of your finger, or apply a slightly different
pressure), then the verification fails. I think that's why the
verification fails about 40% of the time - as the movement done isn't
strictly the same, and differs slightly from the one made at enrollment
time, the verification fails.

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  [04f3:0903] Elan Microelectronics Corp fingerprint reader not
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