README.md

fpscan

Fingerprint scanner commandline tool for Linux based on libfprint

This project is yet in very early state, but at least partly usable.

Building

fpscan requires libfprint to be installed.

$ autoreconf -fvi
$ ./configure
$ make

Installing

Systemwide fpscan can be installed like this:

$ sudo make install

Usage

fpscan can operate in three modes:

• list available devices
• scan a finger to create a fingerprint file (-s)
• scan a finger and check, whether it matches with data from file (-c)

By default devices are listed. fpscan --help gives a list of all available options.

Detect locally available devices like this:

$ fpscan -v

Gives you a list of locally attached and supported fingerprint scanners.

Using

$ fpscan -s -v

a finger is scanned and the data stored to a new fingerprint file. By default this file is called data.fpm in the local directory.

With

$ fpscan -s -v --image

an additional image file in .pgm format is stored to file data.pgm in the local directory.

Using

$ fpscan -c -v

a finger is scanned and compared to data in a file. The result is output on the commandline. By default the finger is compared to data in local file data.fpm.

Use

$ fpscan --help

to list all supported options.