Finger Printing
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:48 am
Yes, I know this may sound like an odd idea for a neobook project, but has anyone ever tinkered in the realm of finger printing and finger print scanning?
For a project I'm currently working on, it would be awesome if we had the ability to allow users to identify themselves using a fingerprint, but I was wondering how this is done. Is it pretty much like the old barcode wedge scanner methods, where the scanner acts like an input device? Or is it a little more complex than that?
The only knowledge I've actually got in this whole area is that in a few applications I've seen, I've been told the actual fingerprint information is stored as numbers (points on the finger print) instead of an actual fingerprint, and so was wondering if this's be a possibility.
Anyway, back to my question, has anyone ever tried anything like this? I'm going to just assume that you'd need a custom plugin to do this.
Even better, does anyone have any idea how I'd actually go about doing something like this?
Thanks,
Regards,
jam
For a project I'm currently working on, it would be awesome if we had the ability to allow users to identify themselves using a fingerprint, but I was wondering how this is done. Is it pretty much like the old barcode wedge scanner methods, where the scanner acts like an input device? Or is it a little more complex than that?
The only knowledge I've actually got in this whole area is that in a few applications I've seen, I've been told the actual fingerprint information is stored as numbers (points on the finger print) instead of an actual fingerprint, and so was wondering if this's be a possibility.
Anyway, back to my question, has anyone ever tried anything like this? I'm going to just assume that you'd need a custom plugin to do this.
Even better, does anyone have any idea how I'd actually go about doing something like this?
Thanks,
Regards,
jam