Crop Image to Face with Square Crop in Go
1 min readMar 21, 2022
We all know how cropping images goes. Open the image, select the cropping tool and… click and drag?
No thanks actually, because there’s an API for that. With our Image API, you can quickly crop images to a rectangular area around someone’s face using facial recognition technology — a great feature for any image processing application. Simply input your image into the below Go code snippets where indicated, include your API key, and return results:
package mainimport (
"fmt"
"bytes"
"mime/multipart"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"io"
"net/http"
"io/ioutil"
)func main() {url := "https://api.cloudmersive.com/image/face/crop/first"
method := "POST"payload := &bytes.Buffer{}
writer := multipart.NewWriter(payload)
file, errFile1 := os.Open("/path/to/file")
defer file.Close()
part1,
errFile1 := writer.CreateFormFile("imageFile",filepath.Base("/path/to/file"))
_, errFile1 = io.Copy(part1, file)
if errFile1 != nil {
fmt.Println(errFile1)
return
}
err := writer.Close()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}client := &http.Client {
}
req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data")
req.Header.Add("Apikey", "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE")req.Header.Set("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType())
res, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
defer res.Body.Close()body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Println(string(body))
}