Librany - A Face Recognition and QR Code Technology based Smart Library System

Abstract

Libraries play the most important role when it comes to books and reading. Today, libraries have become a great source of information. If we look upon the procedure that most of the conventional libraries in the world follow, we see a great amount of drudgery involved. In this paper, we propose a smart library system, which eliminates most of this drudgery in the conventional library management systems. Using face recognition and QR code based technology, the system automates and eases the tasks of Book Issue, Book Return and Book Search. It resembles ‘Just walk out technology’ implemented by Amazon in the Amazon Go stores. The proposed system enjoins self-issue and self-return procedures along with the dynamic search feature which provides the real-time location of the books. The proposed system significantly expedites the process of issue, return and search thus avoiding long queues at the reception counter/librarian's desk.