How to interact with fingerprint scanner using debian based python?

Question

Python

Good day to all.
The task is as follows:
Make a room access control system using a fingerprint device. For this task, a raspberry pi microcomputer with the raspbian operating system (based on debian wheezy) will be used. The following fingerprint scanner is being considered - U 4500 USB
The system will need to be able to:
- Add new fingerprints to the database using the fingerprint scanner
- User authentication I check the scanned fingerprint against the one already in the database.
Everything must be written in python.
As far as I understand, using the device, fingerprints are stored either as an image or as a binary?
Is it possible using python to directly read the fingerprints from the device and process them?
I came across the OpenCV library, but still a lot is not clear yet ..

Answer 1

You will at least need the SDK from the scanner. Which these smart guys give out only on request. And they do not have support for hipster languages:

Supported Interfaces - ANSI C, C++ , Java and JavaPOS