Installation

Stable release

To install Face Recognition, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip3 install face_recognition

This is the preferred method to install Face Recognition, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for Face Recognition can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install