This project code allows one to search through the images from many newspaper looking for the occurrences of keywords and faces. E.g. if you search for "Mike" it will return a contact sheet of all of the faces which were located on the newspaper page which mentions the name "Mike"
Main.pytakes a ZIP file of images (newspaper images) and process them, and finally it will return a contact sheet of all of the faces which were located on the newspaper page which mentions the name we search for.- readonly folder contains face (front profile) detection classifier and an image containing face detection result for searching the key word "Mark".
- we use
OpenCVto detect faces,tesseractto do optical character recognition, andPILto composite images together into contact sheets.
Each page of the newspapers is saved as a single PNG image in a file images.zip These newspapers are in english, and contain a
variety of stories, advertisements and images.
Note: This file is fairly large (~200 MB) and may take some time to work with, I would encourage you to use a smaller subset of these images for testing.
Dataset link