Fingerprint Sensor : Retrive RAW Image

[harryhaaren]

I've recently purchased the fingerprint scanner that you offer, and have got off to a great start using it. The examples are working fine, the only issue that I'm having is that there is little documentation on how to get access to the raw image data.

As far as I understand the sensor provides 255x288 pixels of 16 bit greyscale data in a bitmap form. I read the header file available on github.com, and presume it requires the use of finger.getImage() and finger.getReply(). I'm a little lost as to how to perform the details.

Help explaining how to retrieve the raw data into the Arduino, and how that data should be interpreted to be viewable as a greyscale image would be much appreciated

Cheers, -Harry

[adafruit_support_bill]

We recently got the English translation of the manual and have posted it here: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-opti ... /downloads

I have not had a chance to study it to see what raw image support they have.

[harryhaaren]

We recently got the English translation of the manual and have posted it here: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-opti ... /downloads

I have not had a chance to study it to see what raw image support they have.

Thanks for the reply. I've read trough the linked datasheet, and although it does provide some insight into the image format (255x288 px , 4 bits or 16 shade when transferred over UART) it doesn't mention how to get the data from the device.

Essentially my question is how I can use the functions getImage() and getReply() provided as on github https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Fingerprint-Sensor-Library/blob/master/Adafruit_Fingerprint.h#L83 to retrive the image data.

Cheers, -Harry

[adafruit_support_bill]

Essentially my question is how I can use the functions getImage() and getReply()

getImage() in the library is an implementation of the 0x01 command which is described like this in the manual:

6.2.1 To collect finger image: GenImg
Description: detecting finger and store the detected finger image in ImageBuffer while
returning successfull confirmation code; If there is no finger, returned
confirmation code would be ¡ can¡t detect finger¡ .

Uploading the image from the sensor would be the 0x0A command. We did not have this level of English language documentation at the time the library was written, so we currently do not have library support for this function.

[mxlukax]

Someone know how can i get the image raw data ?