# How to Analysis images using Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931 "2018-02-01T05:31:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Baskar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@Hari\_Baskar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hari_Baskar)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931/1 "2018-02-01T05:31:50Z")

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Hi,

How to compare the images and analyze the images using the Elasticsearch and Kibana?  
Eg. Employee's security login using the face recognition, We stored already some employee's images in the database, so, Now the live face images need to compare with the database. Then, we need to analysis the images.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931/2 "2018-02-02T00:18:29Z")

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You'd need to create a hash representation of the image and then store that in Elasticsearch for the comparison. There's no native support for binary images in Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931/3 "2018-02-02T07:34:49Z")

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Indeed. There have been some plugins built by the community in the past, like:

- [https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image](https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image)
- [https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/elasticsearch-image-features](https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/elasticsearch-image-features)

They are not actively maintained anymore.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analysis-images-using-elasticsearch/117931/4 "2018-03-02T07:49:27Z")

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