1218muskan / findingmissingpeople_facerecognition

A web application to help police in finding missing persons and uniting them with their families using Face Recognition technology. Made during Microsoft Engage Program 2022.

Project made under Microsoft Engage Mentorship Program 2022

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FindingMissingPeople_FaceRecognition

A website to help police to find lost persons and unite them with their families using Face Recognition technology

Installation and Setup guide

After cloning this repository in your local machine follow the given steps to be able to run the code:

1. Create and activate a virtual enviornment in the same directory. (Optional but recommended)
2. Download and Install Microsoft Visual Studio.
3. While insatlling don't forget to click on Desktop development with c++ option as shown here.
4. Install all the dependencies mentioned in requirements.txt file using command: pip install -r requirements.txt in cmd/terminal.
5. Start phpmyadmin and create a new mysql database with name finding_missing_people
6. Import finding_missing_people.sql file to the database to create the tables.
7. Run main.py file
8. Open the website from local host: http://127.0.0.1:5000/

If facing issues in Step 4 while installing dlib library on windows 10 refer to this article.