How to connect / communicate with fingerprint or scanner in flex

Question

I want to write application in adobe flex/air through which I can communicate/connect with hardware devices such as Fingerprint reader, scanner.

Is there any way to do so?

Is flex/air support hardware interaction with the following devices.

you can communicate with fingerprint reader with middle ware applications such as Java, .net etc. but i didn't know how to communicate with Air application — Exhausted, Dec 16 '11 at 06:19
possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500832/is-there-a-way-to-use-a-fingerprint-scanner-with-flex — Exhausted, Dec 16 '11 at 06:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '11 at 07:52

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It's possible in AIR if you use native extensions.

You will have to write a separate native extension for each platform and compile separate application versions.

answered Dec 16 '11 at 07:52

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