Face Matching Service (for using with hardware readers) installation

Prerequisites: 

• Document Reader SDK installed (alternatively, with Local Service SDK installed);

  For more details on how to install the products above, refer to these articles:

  Document Reader SDK Installation

  Document Reader SDK Local Web Service installation

Software installation:

Note: For more details on Face SDK installation on Windows platform, please refer to How to Install Face API SDK on Windows guide on the official documentation portal.

• Using the Regula Downloads Manager application, download and install Face Processing Service (CPU or GPU version, at user's choice). 

  Note: before selecting GPU version make sure that your hardware is in the list of devices that support CUDA 12.8. You can check detailed system requirements in this article from our official documentation. 

• Follow the installation wizard prompts to install Face Processing Service.
• Once the installation is finished, the service is ready-to-use.

Features:

When using Face SDK with Regula document readers, it is possible to perform the following types of face comparison:

• Compare the facial image obtained from the document data page with the facial image extracted from the RFID chip of the document.
• Compare the facial image obtained from the document data page with the facial image received from a camera.
• Compare the facial image extracted from the RFID chip of the document with the facial image received from a camera.

For configuring Live comparison feature (comparing facial image extracted from the documents against external images from a camera), see Live comparison (using Face SDK) with Document Reader SDK.