schweini has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
honoured monasterians,
so i've been told to incorporate biometrics in the form of a fingerprint-scanner into one of my systems (basically a time-tracker) - does anyone have some experience with that? where do i start? google wasn't much help for me due to the incredible marketing-hype it has to cut through to get to the real information.
AFAIK, fingerprint-scanners usually simply scan the fingerprint (duh!), and then pass on that info as a grayscale bitmap to some program that tries to detect at least some of the "minutae" (whirls, bends, etc.), which then get passed on to some fingerprint-matching program, which tries to do a partial match on the found minutae against the stored ones.
what i'd love to have is someway to basically say something like
in perl. if at all possible, cross-platfoem (windows and linux).
so, anyone know of where to look for something like that? security is not the primary issue, and i am well aware of all the drawbacks to a fingerprint-solution, and informed my superiors on that, but they are willing to accept that.
Update: Maybe i should rephrase my basic question to: "Does anyone know of some pre-made hardware/software package i can talk to with perl? in the worst case by parsing files?"
so i've been told to incorporate biometrics in the form of a fingerprint-scanner into one of my systems (basically a time-tracker) - does anyone have some experience with that? where do i start? google wasn't much help for me due to the incredible marketing-hype it has to cut through to get to the real information.
AFAIK, fingerprint-scanners usually simply scan the fingerprint (duh!), and then pass on that info as a grayscale bitmap to some program that tries to detect at least some of the "minutae" (whirls, bends, etc.), which then get passed on to some fingerprint-matching program, which tries to do a partial match on the found minutae against the stored ones.
what i'd love to have is someway to basically say something like
$user = $fingerprint_matcher->find($scan_data, $database)
in perl. if at all possible, cross-platfoem (windows and linux).
so, anyone know of where to look for something like that? security is not the primary issue, and i am well aware of all the drawbacks to a fingerprint-solution, and informed my superiors on that, but they are willing to accept that.
Update: Maybe i should rephrase my basic question to: "Does anyone know of some pre-made hardware/software package i can talk to with perl? in the worst case by parsing files?"
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Re: Biometrics with perl
by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Oct 02, 2004 at 20:52 UTC | |
Re: Biometrics with perl
by pg (Canon) on Oct 02, 2004 at 18:20 UTC | |
Re: Biometrics with perl
by WhiteBird (Hermit) on Oct 02, 2004 at 19:09 UTC | |
Re: Biometrics with perl
by Albannach (Monsignor) on Oct 03, 2004 at 14:41 UTC | |
by TedPride (Priest) on Oct 03, 2004 at 22:08 UTC | |
by Albannach (Monsignor) on Oct 04, 2004 at 00:57 UTC | |
by TedPride (Priest) on Oct 04, 2004 at 05:51 UTC | |
by Albannach (Monsignor) on Oct 04, 2004 at 14:47 UTC | |
Re: Biometrics with perl
by HelgeG (Scribe) on Oct 04, 2004 at 09:11 UTC |
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