Ugo Riboni wrote:
> I'd like to help with trying the binary drivers, at least trying
> installing them and trying to get them to work.
> But the link above leads me nowhere, and searching the upek drivers
> area for Linux turns out only a BioAPI based SDK.
> Is the binary driver inside that ?

http://www.upek.com/solutions/pc_and_networking/sdks/linux/
I think that's all you need. You can probably find some howto's on the 
thinkpad wiki or something like that.

> It looks like that SDK is only for the readers with built-in
> recognition processor.

That may be true, but what makes you come to that conclusion?

> I've read in another mailing list (i can't find the link anymore right
> now, sorry) that 147e:2016 is a scanner only, it does not have
> recognition capabilities. A person who contacted upek about a driver
> for it was told that upek supports Linux only for devices with
> recognition features.

Indeed this appears to be an imaging device.

> Please let me know where i can get this binary driver from, if it does
> exist at all, so i can try to help further.

The first step is to figure out the image format. If you'd like to help, 
read the thread titled "image format challenges" I started the other day.

Here is the task we're tracking progress on:
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/bugs/task/9

Daniel

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