Pro iPhone Development with Swift 4: Design and Manage Top Quality Apps

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9. Using Facial and Text Recognition

Molly Maskrey¹  and Wallace Wang²

(1)Parker, Colorado, USA

(2)San Diego, California, USA

In the previous chapter, you learned about Core ML, which lets you use machine learning models in your apps. However, iOS also offers another form of artificial intelligence that doesn’t require finding and adding a trained machine learning model to your app. Instead, you can simply use the Vision framework that can recognize objects in in pictures such as faces or text.

At the simplest level, facial recognition can identify the number of faces in a picture and also draw rectangles ...