title: Fingerprint Recognition System
body: <p>I am going to design a Fingerprint Recognition System that involves recognizing fingerprint from image, feature extraction and matching. I am willing to implement it through C and Python, that library will be written in C and docked to Python as a module. Here are my questions:</p>
  
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  <li><p>Is there any books that you can recommend me in this field (except Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition)?</p></li>
  <li><p>I need a device that will simply scan the fingerprint and save it as an image which I can use later through my code. But I can't seem to find one. All of them have their own software for matching and don't allow me to bypass it. Are there any known devices for such task or shall I write my own driver for one of them?</p></li>
  <li><p>Would you recommend OpenCV?</p></li>
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