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Add note re: Azure Face service availability
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Webreaper authored Feb 22, 2023
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* Facial detection
* Object detection and recognition
* Image Classification
* Facial Recognition (requires a [free Azure Face Services account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/cognitive-services/))
* Facial Recognition (Temporarily unavailable - see note below)
* Full-text search with multi-phrase partial-word searches
* Advanced search - filter by:
* Find visually similar images
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* File Size
* Orientation
* Images with no keyword tags

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<img style="margin: 5px;" src="docs/Damselfly-search.jpg" alt="Advanced Search in Damselfly" width="800"/>
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* Runs on Windows, Linux and OSX, and in Docker.
* Built with Microsoft .Net 7, hosted Blazor WebAssembly and EFCore 7.

## Update on Damselfly Face Recognition Support

> Damselfly used to provide face-recognition via the Microsoft Azure Face API, which provided excellent
recognition results. However, Microsoft have recently locked down the use of this API, meaning it is no longer
practically available for anyone outside Enterprise organisations. This has effectively killed the use of Azure
Face for Open-source projects like Damselfly.

> For more information on this, see [this StackOverFlow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73095624/unable-to-use-azure-face-api-forbidden-error).
> I will be working to add a new offline face-recognition capability to Damselfly this year (2023) to replace the
Azure Face functionality.

## Want to Support Damselfly?

Damselfly is free, open-source software. But if you find it useful, and fancy buying me a coffee or a slice of pizza, that would
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