Anyone is familiar with fingerprint scanner????

I am currently working on my final year project.it is something to do with fingerprint scanner.Where can I get the scanner and how to program it so that it can match the fingerprint on the scanner with the stored data?which programming(C++,VB or other else) that i have to use?Any website contains information about this?Thanks for your time

One company who manufactures FingerPrint sensors is ATMEL. Try visiting its website www.atmel.com. You can use either microcontrollers or your PC for your purpose. I think uC would be a good solution. Because spending $$$ in a computer just for fingerprint scanning is foolishness and wastage of resources unless you want to keep a large database of fingerprints. But even newly availabe Flash Memories can also do the job. For programming C or C++ is far better compared to VB. Vb can't access serial or parallel port directly (i.e. without any ActiveX).