# Install faceprints with Homebrew

Detect and label images of faces using local Vision.framework models. Version 1.1.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:faceprints
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install faceprints
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:faceprints
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.2
- **Source summary:** Detect and label images of faces using local Vision.framework models
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Nexuist/faceprints>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Nexuist/faceprints>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- faceprints (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.1.2
## Project history and usage

Faceprints is a Swift CLI for local face recognition and face-label indexing using Apple's Vision.framework models.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in June 2024. The official README says Faceprints is built off the author's seeV work and provides shell-friendly operations for classifying photos, adding labeled faceprints, removing entries, listing labels, and extracting embeddings.

### Adoption history

The official release page provides downloadable builds, and Homebrew packages the project at stable version 1.1.2 with a HEAD build option.

### How it is used

The CLI accepts local image paths or image URLs for classification, can emit JSON or plaintext results, and stores its faceprint index under the user's home directory as documented in the README.

### Why package nerds care

Faceprints is notable for package-manager users because it exposes platform-native computer-vision functionality as a scriptable command-line tool without requiring internet access or third-party model downloads.

### Timeline

- 2024: GitHub repository created.
- 2024: 1.1.2 published as the initial GitHub Release.
- 2026: Homebrew formula tracks 1.1.2 as the stable version.

### Related projects

- The README explicitly relates Faceprints to seeV, another project by the same author.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/Nexuist/faceprints>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Nexuist/faceprints/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/faceprints.json>
- <https://github.com/Nexuist/faceprints#readme>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/faceprints.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/faceprints.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph