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face-recognition-login-system

A web based facial login system using python

Face Recognition Login System

:camera: A facial recognition based login system using Python,HTML,CSS and Bootstrap

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Tools & Libraries Used

Python - face_recognition - https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition

XAMPP - https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/

CGI

Note - These files must be hosted on XAMPP Apache server or other server, else login.py will not work.

Working

Install Python
Install XAMPP
Navigate to htdocs fodler and clone this project.
Open login.py and make sure to replace the top comment #! C:\Python39\python.exe with your python path.
Navigate to htdocs/face-recognition-login-system and execute the following command pip install -r requirements.txt
Navigate to xampp/apache/config and modify the httpd.conf file by adding
```
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py .cgi .pl .asp
```
at the end of the file. Then save & exit
Then run XAMPP & go to localhost/face-recognition-login-system/login.html
Put all the images of students in the ‘students’ folder
Pictures must be in the format (email_address_of_student).jpg

Optional - you can create a seperate registration form for students, where they may upload their picture and the picture gets stored as (email_address).jpg in the ‘students’ folder.

Making it work for Windows

Go to the python's installed location , in my case it was (C:\Python39) and right click on the python39 folder and go to security tab and give "Full Control" permission to users

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And then go the scripts folder in python's installed path (C:\Python39\Scripts)

and run the below commands in that folder

Command 1 : C:\python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip --user

In the above command replace the exe path with your path

Comand 2 : pip install cmake --ignore-installed

Command 3 : pip install dlib --ignore-installed

Command 4 : pip install face_recognition --ignore-installed

Then try to restart the XAMPP Server it should work.

If it did not work, try installing below tools on windows

CMAKE
Visual Studio with CMAKE Build tools installed

Also to for debugging, ensure to check Apache Error Logs

Kindly follow the below Reference issues in case you are stuck https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/issues/1016 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51912999/could-not-install-packages-due-to-an-environmenterror-winerror-5-access-is-de