I am developing a Web based Biometric registration portal (PHP+MySQL+JavaScript) where a student will be registered with his personal info and his fingerprint. The fingerprint will be taken trough Futronic FS82 fingerprint scanner. The device supplier company Futronic (http://www.futronic-tech.com) are providing SDK for VB.NET and JAVA.
This device captures the finger image and saves the image in a specific folder and search any user with the fingerprint from that specific folder.
Now I am trying to integrate everything in my web portal where there will be a button like "Scan". When someone clicks that button, automatically the user will be asked to provide fingerprint and I need to save it in my specified folder. And again when I will search the user with his fingerprint, it will search from that folder and give me the result.........
I am not getting any idea how to do it. Please guide me....Do I need to make a java applet or something? How can I do that?
Since PHP is server-side, you cant just click a button, and let it wait for input.
So if the fingerprint scanner can print a value thats unique to each finger (like most barcode scanners do), you can just do an input field, and have that POST to a PHP script, that will verify the value, will all the already saved onces.
If it dosn't return a value, you will most likely need to create a VB.NET or JAVA "plugin", that can handle this, and either post a value it self, or make it return the value of the finger thats scanned.