Software to read fingerprint and generate a unique number

Question

Is there any open-source software available to read fingerprint from fingerprint scanner and give a unique number ?

I need this for another software I am building where I need to store user's fingerprint in a database.

I use Linux. So I am searching for any of these kind which runs on Linux.

Thank you.

Answer 1

There has been considerable discussion of doing this with Open CV on the OpenCV forum, there is an example in a book called Open CV 3 Blueprints and the associated C++ source code can be found here.

You can also find C# & Java implementations here.