These are notes regarding an experimental attempt to operate a SecuGen HU20 fingerprint scanner with WebUSB. I wanted to learn a bit about the WebUSB protocol and to assess how feasible such a project would be.
The ideal is that our web application would be able to interact directly with the Fingerprint Scanner on a Windows, Mac or Android Tablet or phone without having to muck around with drivers or other installed software.
There are unfortunately two principle problems that undermine this ideal.
The first and most significant from my point of view is that interacting with the Fingerprint Scanner requires significant mucking about on Windows
