Welcome to Face Counter, a Python project that simplifies face counting in images and provides an intuitive web application for visualizing the results with highlighted faces. Whether you're curious about the number of faces in a group photo or need to analyze facial data, Face Counter has got you covered.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/Hardvan/FaceCounter

2. Navigate to the folder

   cd FaceCounter

3. Create a virtual python environment by typing the following in the terminal

   python -m venv .venv

4. Activate the virtual environment

   Windows:

   .\.venv\Scripts\activate

   Linux:

   source .venv/bin/activate

5. Install dependencies by typing the following in the terminal

   pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Run the app

   python app.py

7. Click on the link in the terminal to open the website

   It will look something like this:

   Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000

If you want to test the script, you can run the following command in the terminal:

python CountFaces.py

This will run the script on the image in the images folder and print the number of faces found in the image along with storing the image with the faces highlighted in the output folder.