[fprint] fprint Windows/Ubuntu question

[Jeff Hopper]

Hello, here is my situation. My company (telemedicine industry) has an 
application that runs on Windows XP that requires authentication via 
DigitalPersona Fingerprint Recognition System. We are currently using 
the DigitalPersona Pro Platinum SDK software. For now we are storing the 
fingerprint image locally. We have reached the full development stage in 
preparation for beta testing and ideally would like to switch to an open 
source solution (at least for the fingerprint recognition software). To 
complicate matters, our database server at our data center that our 
product needs to communicate with will be storing the fingerprint images 
on the Ubuntu operating system (which libfprint supports). So, the first 
question, which I think I already know the answer based on my research, 
is "does libfrprint" support Windows in any way? The second question is, 
our needs aren't much on the Windows side - we need only to scan the 
fingerprint and initially send the image to our database, and thereafter 
match the fingerprint entered on our product with those that are in our 
database server at the data center. Does libfprint in any way support 
this? If we can simply make a call to the database to store the 
fingerprint image, and then somehow make a network call to libfprint to 
run the fingerprint matching algorithm and return a found/not-found back 
to our Windows API, this would suffice.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide in this matter.