In this chapter, we created a new application named Facetious by abridging the Gazer application, which was built in the preceding chapter. In the abridging process, the features of video saving and motion detecting were removed and a new feature of photo taking was added. As a result, we got a clean application that allows us to focus on face recognition. Then, in the application, we developed the feature of face detecting using a pretrained cascade classifier and the feature of facial landmarks detecting using another pretrained machine learning model. At last, which is the funny part, we applied many ornaments on the detected faces with the help of the detected landmarks.
In the next chapter, we will talk about Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and use that technology to extract text from images or scanned documents.
