diff --git a/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/biometric-enrollment/pages/BiometricEnrollmentPage.tsx b/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/biometric-enrollment/pages/BiometricEnrollmentPage.tsx
index 3577cb379..fdb61a7ce 100644
--- a/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/biometric-enrollment/pages/BiometricEnrollmentPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/biometric-enrollment/pages/BiometricEnrollmentPage.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import {
   Alert,
   Badge,
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ import {
 import { IconAlertTriangle, IconFingerprint, IconScan, IconSearch, IconX } from '@tabler/icons-react';
 import { useDebouncedValue } from '@mantine/hooks';
 import {
+  discoverMantraDevice,
+  captureFingerprint,
+  MantraCaptureFailedError,
   extractErrorMessage,
   useEnrollBiometricMutation,
   useGenerateBsidMutation,
@@ -25,6 +28,8 @@ import {
   useListSeafarerRegistrationsQuery,
   useRevokeBiometricEnrollmentMutation,
   type BiometricModality,
+  type BiometricPosition,
+  type MantraDeviceInfo,
   type SeafarerRegistration,
 } from '@ema-platform/api';
 import { notify, PageHeader, StatusBadge } from '@ema-platform/ui';
@@ -35,16 +40,30 @@ const MODALITIES: { value: BiometricModality; label: string }[] = [
   { value: 'FACE', label: 'Face' },
 ];
 
+const FINGER_POSITIONS: { value: BiometricPosition; label: string }[] = [
+  { value: 'RIGHT_THUMB', label: 'Right thumb' },
+  { value: 'RIGHT_INDEX', label: 'Right index' },
+  { value: 'RIGHT_MIDDLE', label: 'Right middle' },
+  { value: 'RIGHT_RING', label: 'Right ring' },
+  { value: 'RIGHT_LITTLE', label: 'Right little' },
+  { value: 'LEFT_THUMB', label: 'Left thumb' },
+  { value: 'LEFT_INDEX', label: 'Left index' },
+  { value: 'LEFT_MIDDLE', label: 'Left middle' },
+  { value: 'LEFT_RING', label: 'Left ring' },
+  { value: 'LEFT_LITTLE', label: 'Left little' },
+];
+
 function applicantName(r: Pick<SeafarerRegistration, 'firstName' | 'middleName' | 'lastName'>): string {
   return [r.firstName, r.middleName, r.lastName].filter(Boolean).join(' ') || '—';
 }
 
 /**
- * No scanner is wired yet (US-BIO placeholder): "Simulate Scan" stands in for
- * the real vendor SDK capture, producing a random template so the rest of the
- * pipeline — encrypt, store, print — is exercisable end to end. Swap the
- * simulated bytes for the SDK's real template once a vendor is chosen; the
- * API call shape (base64 template + format tag) does not change.
+ * Fallback only (US-BIO placeholder): when `discoverMantraDevice()` finds no
+ * RD Service on this machine, "Simulate Scan" stands in for a real capture so
+ * the rest of the pipeline — encrypt, store, print — stays exercisable. Once
+ * a Mantra scanner answers discovery, `handleCaptureFromDevice` is used
+ * instead — see `mantra-capture-agent.ts`. Same API call shape either way
+ * (base64 template + format tag).
  */
 function fakeTemplate(): string {
   const bytes = crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(64));
@@ -112,23 +131,72 @@ export function BiometricEnrollmentPage() {
 
   const profileId = selected?.profileId ?? '';
   const { data: enrollments, isLoading } = useGetBiometricEnrollmentsQuery(profileId, { skip: !profileId });
-  // No vendor SDK integrated yet — "Simulate Scan" fakes a capture so the
-  // rest of the flow is exercisable. Reports false in production unless
+  // "Simulate Scan" fakes a capture so the rest of the flow is exercisable
+  // where no scanner is present. Reports false in production unless
   // ALLOW_BIOMETRIC_SIMULATION=true, same shortcut the payment bypass uses.
   const { data: capabilities } = useGetBiometricSimulateCapabilitiesQuery();
   const simulateEnabled = capabilities?.simulateEnabled ?? false;
+
+  // Probed once per page load: is Mantra's RD Service running on this
+  // counter PC? `null` means "not checked yet / not found" — capture then
+  // falls back to Simulate Scan, same as before a device was ever expected.
+  const [device, setDevice] = useState<MantraDeviceInfo | null>(null);
+  const [probingDevice, setProbingDevice] = useState(true);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false;
+    setProbingDevice(true);
+    discoverMantraDevice()
+      .then((found) => { if (!cancelled) setDevice(found); })
+      .finally(() => { if (!cancelled) setProbingDevice(false); });
+    return () => { cancelled = true; };
+  }, []);
+
+  const [position, setPosition] = useState<BiometricPosition>('RIGHT_THUMB');
   const [generateBsid, { isLoading: generatingBsid }] = useGenerateBsidMutation();
   // Seeded from the seafarer registration list (which does not carry BSID
   // yet) and updated locally once generated — this screen's only source of
   // truth for it until the registry surfaces the profile's BSID directly.
   const [bsid, setBsid] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [enroll, { isLoading: enrolling }] = useEnrollBiometricMutation();
+  const [capturing, setCapturing] = useState(false);
   const [revoke, { isLoading: revoking }] = useRevokeBiometricEnrollmentMutation();
 
   const hasActive = useMemo(
     () => (m: BiometricModality) => (enrollments ?? []).some((e) => e.modality === m),
     [enrollments],
   );
+  const positionEnrolled = useMemo(
+    () => (p: BiometricPosition) => (enrollments ?? []).some((e) => e.modality === 'FINGERPRINT' && e.position === p),
+    [enrollments],
+  );
+
+  /** Real scanner path: capture from the device that answered discovery, then enroll exactly as Simulate Scan does. */
+  async function handleCaptureFromDevice() {
+    if (!profileId || !device) return;
+    setCapturing(true);
+    try {
+      const capture = await captureFingerprint(device, position);
+      await enroll({
+        profileId,
+        modality: 'FINGERPRINT',
+        position,
+        template: capture.template,
+        templateFormat: capture.templateFormat,
+        qualityScore: capture.qualityScore,
+        deviceId: capture.deviceId,
+        consentAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+      }).unwrap();
+      notify.success(`Fingerprint (${FINGER_POSITIONS.find((f) => f.value === position)?.label}) enrolled.`);
+    } catch (err) {
+      notify.error(
+        err instanceof MantraCaptureFailedError
+          ? err.message
+          : extractErrorMessage(err, 'Enrollment failed.'),
+      );
+    } finally {
+      setCapturing(false);
+    }
+  }
 
   async function handleEnroll() {
     if (!profileId) return;
@@ -136,6 +204,7 @@ export function BiometricEnrollmentPage() {
       await enroll({
         profileId,
         modality,
+        position: modality === 'FINGERPRINT' ? position : undefined,
         template: fakeTemplate(),
         templateFormat: 'SIMULATED',
         deviceId: deviceId || undefined,
@@ -206,13 +275,42 @@ export function BiometricEnrollmentPage() {
 
           <Card withBorder radius="md" p="md">
             <Text fz="sm" fw={600} mb="sm">Capture</Text>
-            {simulateEnabled ? (
+            {probingDevice ? (
+              <Group gap="xs"><Loader size="sm" /><Text fz="sm" c="dimmed">Looking for a scanner…</Text></Group>
+            ) : device ? (
+              <>
+                <Alert color="teal" icon={<IconFingerprint size={16} />} mb="sm" variant="light">
+                  Mantra scanner detected ({device.deviceId}). Place the finger below and capture.
+                </Alert>
+                <Group align="flex-end">
+                  <Select
+                    label="Finger"
+                    data={FINGER_POSITIONS}
+                    value={position}
+                    onChange={(v) => setPosition((v as BiometricPosition) ?? 'RIGHT_THUMB')}
+                    w={180}
+                  />
+                  <Button leftSection={<IconFingerprint size={16} />} onClick={handleCaptureFromDevice} loading={capturing || enrolling}>
+                    {positionEnrolled(position) ? 'Re-capture & Enroll' : 'Capture & Enroll'}
+                  </Button>
+                </Group>
+              </>
+            ) : simulateEnabled ? (
               <>
                 <Alert color="yellow" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} mb="sm" variant="light">
-                  No scanner is wired yet — this simulates a capture so the rest of the flow can be tested.
+                  No scanner detected — this simulates a capture so the rest of the flow can be tested.
                 </Alert>
                 <Group align="flex-end">
                   <Select label="Modality" data={MODALITIES} value={modality} onChange={(v) => setModality((v as BiometricModality) ?? 'FINGERPRINT')} w={160} />
+                  {modality === 'FINGERPRINT' && (
+                    <Select
+                      label="Finger"
+                      data={FINGER_POSITIONS}
+                      value={position}
+                      onChange={(v) => setPosition((v as BiometricPosition) ?? 'RIGHT_THUMB')}
+                      w={180}
+                    />
+                  )}
                   <TextInput label="Device (optional)" placeholder="scanner-01" value={deviceId} onChange={(e) => setDeviceId(e.currentTarget.value)} w={180} />
                   <Button leftSection={<IconScan size={16} />} onClick={handleEnroll} loading={enrolling}>
                     Simulate Scan &amp; Enroll
@@ -221,7 +319,7 @@ export function BiometricEnrollmentPage() {
               </>
             ) : (
               <Alert color="gray" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} variant="light">
-                No scanner is wired yet, and capture simulation is off in this environment.
+                No scanner detected, and capture simulation is off in this environment.
               </Alert>
             )}
           </Card>
@@ -265,32 +363,37 @@ export function BiometricEnrollmentPage() {
                       </ThemeIcon>
                       <Text fz="sm">{m.label}</Text>
                     </Group>
-                    {hasActive(m.value) ? (
-                      <Group gap="xs">
-                        <StatusBadge tone="success" label="Enrolled" />
-                        <Button
-                          size="xs"
-                          color="red"
-                          variant="subtle"
-                          loading={revoking}
-                          onClick={() => {
-                            const row = (enrollments ?? []).find((e) => e.modality === m.value);
-                            if (row) handleRevoke(row.id);
-                          }}
-                        >
-                          Revoke
-                        </Button>
-                      </Group>
-                    ) : (
-                      <Badge color="gray" variant="light">Not enrolled</Badge>
-                    )}
+                    <Badge color={hasActive(m.value) ? 'teal' : 'gray'} variant="light">
+                      {m.value === 'FINGERPRINT'
+                        ? `${(enrollments ?? []).filter((e) => e.modality === 'FINGERPRINT').length} finger(s) enrolled`
+                        : hasActive(m.value) ? 'Enrolled' : 'Not enrolled'}
+                    </Badge>
                   </Group>
                 ))}
+                {/*
+                  One row per capture, not one per modality: a profile can hold
+                  up to ten live FINGERPRINT rows (one per finger) plus one
+                  FACE row, so revoke has to target this specific row's id —
+                  never "the" FINGERPRINT enrollment, which no longer exists
+                  as a singular thing.
+                */}
                 {(enrollments ?? []).map((e) => (
-                  <Text key={e.id} fz="xs" c="dimmed">
-                    {e.modality} captured {showDate(e.enrolledAt)}{e.deviceId ? ` · ${e.deviceId}` : ''}
-                  </Text>
+                  <Group key={e.id} justify="space-between" p="xs" style={{ borderRadius: 8, background: 'var(--mantine-color-default-hover)' }}>
+                    <Text fz="xs" c="dimmed">
+                      {e.modality}
+                      {e.position && e.position !== 'UNSPECIFIED'
+                        ? ` (${FINGER_POSITIONS.find((f) => f.value === e.position)?.label ?? e.position})`
+                        : ''}{' '}
+                      captured {showDate(e.enrolledAt)}{e.deviceId ? ` · ${e.deviceId}` : ''}
+                    </Text>
+                    <Button size="xs" color="red" variant="subtle" loading={revoking} onClick={() => handleRevoke(e.id)}>
+                      Revoke
+                    </Button>
+                  </Group>
                 ))}
+                {(enrollments ?? []).length === 0 && (
+                  <Text fz="xs" c="dimmed">Nothing captured yet.</Text>
+                )}
               </Stack>
             )}
           </Card>
diff --git a/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/biometric-enrollment.types.ts b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/biometric-enrollment.types.ts
index d70322672..e3e1b0871 100644
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/biometric-enrollment.types.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/biometric-enrollment.types.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,25 @@
 export type BiometricModality = 'FINGERPRINT' | 'FACE';
 export type BiometricEnrollmentStatus = 'ACTIVE' | 'REVOKED';
 
+/** Which finger a FINGERPRINT template belongs to; UNSPECIFIED for FACE or an untracked capture. */
+export type BiometricPosition =
+  | 'RIGHT_THUMB'
+  | 'RIGHT_INDEX'
+  | 'RIGHT_MIDDLE'
+  | 'RIGHT_RING'
+  | 'RIGHT_LITTLE'
+  | 'LEFT_THUMB'
+  | 'LEFT_INDEX'
+  | 'LEFT_MIDDLE'
+  | 'LEFT_RING'
+  | 'LEFT_LITTLE'
+  | 'UNSPECIFIED';
+
 export interface BiometricEnrollment {
   id: string;
   profileId: string;
   modality: BiometricModality;
+  position: BiometricPosition | null;
   templateFormat: string;
   qualityScore: number | null;
   deviceId: string | null;
@@ -22,6 +37,8 @@ export interface BiometricEnrollment {
 export interface EnrollBiometric {
   profileId: string;
   modality: BiometricModality;
+  /** Required in practice for FINGERPRINT captures; a real scanner always knows which finger it read. */
+  position?: BiometricPosition;
   /** Vendor SDK template, base64. Never the raw scan image. */
   template: string;
   templateFormat: string;
diff --git a/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/index.ts b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/index.ts
index f824d5e0a..b5ab179a5 100644
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/index.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/index.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 export * from './biometric-enrollment.types';
 export * from './biometric-enrollment-api';
+export * from './mantra-capture-agent';
diff --git a/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/mantra-capture-agent.ts b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/mantra-capture-agent.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c45334fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/biometric-enrollment/mantra-capture-agent.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+import type { BiometricPosition } from './biometric-enrollment.types';
+
+/**
+ * Client for Mantra's Windows RD Service — the local agent that ships with
+ * MORPHS (and every other Mantra scanner) and is the only way a browser can
+ * reach a USB-attached device. It implements UIDAI's standard Registered
+ * Device Service contract (the same one every L1-certified scanner uses),
+ * exposing three verbs over plain HTTP on `127.0.0.1`:
+ *
+ *   RDSERVICE  http://127.0.0.1:<port>/         → discovery: is it running,
+ *                                                  what are the paths for
+ *                                                  DEVICEINFO and CAPTURE
+ *   DEVICEINFO http://127.0.0.1:<port>/rd/info   → device identity
+ *   CAPTURE    http://127.0.0.1:<port>/rd/capture → the actual scan
+ *
+ * The service binds one port out of 11100–11105 (11100 unless something else
+ * already holds it), so discovery has to probe the range rather than assume
+ * a fixed port.
+ *
+ * This is the one piece "swap the simulated bytes for the real vendor SDK
+ * once a vendor is chosen" (see `BiometricEnrollmentPage.tsx`) always meant —
+ * everything else in the enroll pipeline (base64 template + format tag,
+ * encrypt, store) was already shaped for whatever this returns.
+ */
+
+const CANDIDATE_PORTS = [11100, 11101, 11102, 11103, 11104, 11105] as const;
+const DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS = 800;
+const CAPTURE_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
+
+export interface MantraDeviceInfo {
+  /** Device provider/serial identity as reported by RD service — goes in `deviceId`. */
+  deviceId: string;
+  /** RD service version string, kept for support/troubleshooting, not sent to the API. */
+  rdsVersion: string;
+  /** The port discovery found it on. */
+  port: number;
+}
+
+export interface MantraCaptureResult {
+  /** Base64 PID template block — passed straight through as `EnrollBiometric.template`. */
+  template: string;
+  templateFormat: string;
+  /** RD service's own capture quality score, 0–100, when the response carries one. */
+  qualityScore?: number;
+  deviceId: string;
+}
+
+export class MantraCaptureUnavailableError extends Error {
+  constructor(message = 'Mantra RD Service was not found on this machine.') {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = 'MantraCaptureUnavailableError';
+  }
+}
+
+export class MantraCaptureFailedError extends Error {
+  constructor(
+    message: string,
+    public readonly errCode?: string,
+  ) {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = 'MantraCaptureFailedError';
+  }
+}
+
+function withTimeout(ms: number): { signal: AbortSignal; cancel: () => void } {
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), ms);
+  return { signal: controller.signal, cancel: () => clearTimeout(timer) };
+}
+
+async function rdRequest(port: number, path: string, method: string, timeoutMs: number, body?: string): Promise<string> {
+  const { signal, cancel } = withTimeout(timeoutMs);
+  try {
+    // RD Service answers plain HTTP on localhost, and browsers block a page
+    // served over https:// from fetching http:// — this must be called from
+    // a counter page itself served over http://localhost or with the RD
+    // service's own local HTTPS certificate trusted, per Mantra's install guide.
+    const res = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}${path}`, {
+      method,
+      body,
+      headers: body ? { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' } : undefined,
+      signal,
+    });
+    return await res.text();
+  } finally {
+    cancel();
+  }
+}
+
+/** Parses `attr="value"` out of one XML tag without pulling in an XML library for three fields. */
+function attr(xml: string, tag: string, name: string): string | undefined {
+  const tagMatch = xml.match(new RegExp(`<${tag}\\b[^>]*>`, 'i'));
+  if (!tagMatch) return undefined;
+  const attrMatch = tagMatch[0].match(new RegExp(`${name}="([^"]*)"`, 'i'));
+  return attrMatch?.[1];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Probes the RD service port range and reads back device identity. Resolves
+ * to `null` (never throws) when nothing answers — callers use that to decide
+ * whether to show "Simulate Scan" instead, exactly like `simulateEnabled`
+ * already gates it server-side.
+ */
+export async function discoverMantraDevice(): Promise<MantraDeviceInfo | null> {
+  for (const port of CANDIDATE_PORTS) {
+    try {
+      const discovery = await rdRequest(port, '/', 'RDSERVICE', DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS);
+      if (!/status="READY"/i.test(discovery)) continue;
+
+      const infoPath = attr(discovery, 'Interface', 'path') ?? '/rd/info';
+      const info = await rdRequest(port, infoPath, 'DEVICEINFO', DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS);
+      const dpId = attr(info, 'DeviceInfo', 'dpId') ?? attr(info, 'DeviceInfo', 'dc');
+      const rdsVersion = attr(info, 'DeviceInfo', 'rdsVer') ?? 'unknown';
+      if (!dpId) continue;
+
+      return { deviceId: dpId, rdsVersion, port };
+    } catch {
+      // Nothing on this port (connection refused/timeout) — try the next one.
+      continue;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One fingerprint capture for a specific finger. `position` drives nothing
+ * in the RD-service request itself (a single-finger scanner like a slap
+ * reader doesn't need to be told which finger it is), but the caller must
+ * still know which finger was placed, since MORPHS's four-finger and
+ * two-thumb slaps arrive pre-segmented by the vendor SDK into one image per
+ * finger with no position label of their own.
+ */
+export async function captureFingerprint(
+  device: MantraDeviceInfo,
+  position: BiometricPosition,
+): Promise<MantraCaptureResult> {
+  const pidOptions = `<PidOptions ver="1.0"><Opts fCount="1" fType="0" format="0" pidVer="2.0" timeout="${CAPTURE_TIMEOUT_MS}" posh="UNKNOWN" env="P" /></PidOptions>`;
+
+  let response: string;
+  try {
+    response = await rdRequest(device.port, '/rd/capture', 'CAPTURE', CAPTURE_TIMEOUT_MS, pidOptions);
+  } catch (err) {
+    throw new MantraCaptureFailedError(
+      err instanceof Error && err.name === 'AbortError' ? 'Capture timed out.' : 'Could not reach the scanner.',
+    );
+  }
+
+  const errCode = attr(response, 'Resp', 'errCode');
+  if (errCode && errCode !== '0') {
+    const errInfo = attr(response, 'Resp', 'errInfo') ?? `RD service error ${errCode}`;
+    throw new MantraCaptureFailedError(errInfo, errCode);
+  }
+
+  const dataMatch = response.match(/<Data[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/Data>/i);
+  if (!dataMatch) {
+    throw new MantraCaptureFailedError('Capture response had no template data.');
+  }
+
+  const qScore = attr(response, 'Resp', 'qScore');
+  return {
+    template: dataMatch[1].trim(),
+    // PidData carries an encrypted PID block per UIDAI's spec, not a raw
+    // ISO/WSQ template — recorded as such so a real matcher/decryption step
+    // downstream isn't misled into treating it as plaintext ISO-19794-4.
+    templateFormat: 'UIDAI-PID-2.0',
+    qualityScore: qScore ? Number(qScore) : undefined,
+    deviceId: device.deviceId,
+  };
+}