Camera or System for ID capture with windows API

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This may be the wrong place, but..

I am looking for a camera or commercial system that can be used to
capture passport style images controlled through a windows API for
insertion into a database.

Any help? or re-direction would be helpfully.

Regards,
Dave.

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Jim Townsend wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
> >
> > This may be the wrong place, but..
> >
> > I am looking for a camera or commercial system that can be used to
> > capture passport style images controlled through a windows API for
> > insertion into a database.
> >
> > Any help? or re-direction would be helpfully.
>
> Some cameras have the ability to be tethered to a computer.
>
> They come with software that allows the user to control the camera
> remotely. The images are saved directly on the comuter's hard drive.
>
> Most Canon cameras come with Windows software called 'Remote Capture'
> Other brands probably have similar software.

Thanks I will have a look into these, was ideally after a
system/package that could do all the photo side of 'things' to obtain a
photograph which I could then access in some 'seamless' way through a
programmatic interface.