The Easiest Facial Recoginition API You Can Use

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So, let’s take a look at one of the simplest facial recognition API’s for Python, this specific project is face_recognition! Luckily for us, this project is hosted on GitHub, check out the link below to jump straight to their repository:

GitHub - ageitgey/face_recognition: The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the…

This project looks super promising, here is an example of the capability behind this project:

You can also try out this project online via deepnote:

https://deepnote.com/project/Face-Recognition-Demo-hKnsPB2LQ4Sw1erKVKi-wA/%2Fexample.ipynb

If you want to install this package, you can do so with the following pip command:

pip3 install face_recognition

At this point, you can utilize the CLI with the following 2 commands:

From their GitHub page, you can see some examples of this project:

At this point, you can follow along their GitHub page to start building out your first project! Do you plan on using this package? I would love to hear your thoughts about this!

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