[fprint] using API

[Daniel Drake]

collectif Fossile wrote:
> This question may be studpid too, but : does anyone know if the API 
> instructions listed in the function documentation is only aimed at 
> creating new software, or if ever it could be used to give libfprint 
> some instructions in any command line ?

libfprint is a shared library and has no command line interface.

> I wonder if we could actually automate (?) some basic functions that are 
> already used in Fprintdemo (device and driver recognition, capturing an 
> image when a finger is detected, detecting minutiae, binarizing and 
> saving the image).

You would have to write a program. It sounds like the example programs 
that come with libfprint are pretty close to what you need. See the 
libfprint_v0.0.1 page on the wiki for details on how to compile them.

Daniel