diff --git a/handlers/__init__.py b/handlers/__init__.py
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+from .restore_face_v1 import restore_face_route_v1
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diff --git a/handlers/restore_face_v1.py b/handlers/restore_face_v1.py
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+import base64
+
+import cv2
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from flask import request, jsonify, Blueprint
+from torchvision.transforms.functional import normalize
+
+from basicsr.utils import img2tensor, tensor2img
+from basicsr.utils.download_util import load_file_from_url
+from basicsr.utils.misc import gpu_is_available, get_device
+from basicsr.utils.registry import ARCH_REGISTRY
+from facelib.utils.face_restoration_helper import FaceRestoreHelper
+from facelib.utils.misc import is_gray
+from json_bodies.ImageRestoreFace import ImageRestoreFace
+from utils.logs import log
+
+pretrain_model_url = {
+    'restoration': 'https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer/releases/download/v0.1.0/codeformer.pth',
+}
+
+
+def set_realesrgan(bg_tile):
+    from basicsr.archs.rrdbnet_arch import RRDBNet
+    from basicsr.utils.realesrgan_utils import RealESRGANer
+
+    use_half = False
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        no_half_gpu_list = ['1650', '1660']
+        if not any(gpu in torch.cuda.get_device_name(0) for gpu in no_half_gpu_list):
+            use_half = True
+
+    model = RRDBNet(
+        num_in_ch=3,
+        num_out_ch=3,
+        num_feat=64,
+        num_block=23,
+        num_grow_ch=32,
+        scale=2,
+    )
+    upsampler = RealESRGANer(
+        scale=2,
+        model_path="https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer/releases/download/v0.1.0/RealESRGAN_x2plus.pth",
+        model=model,
+        tile=bg_tile,
+        tile_pad=40,
+        pre_pad=0,
+        half=use_half
+    )
+
+    if not gpu_is_available():
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn(
+            'Running on CPU now! Make sure your PyTorch version matches your CUDA. The unoptimized RealESRGAN is slow '
+            'on CPU.',
+            category=RuntimeWarning)
+    return upsampler
+
+
+restore_face_route_v1 = Blueprint('restore_face_v1', __name__, url_prefix='/v1/restore_face')
+
+
+@restore_face_route_v1.route("/image", methods=["POST"])
+def restore_face():
+    r = ImageRestoreFace(**request.get_json())
+    device = get_device()
+
+    bg_upsampler = set_realesrgan(r.bg_tile) if r.bg_upsampler == 'realesrgan' else None
+    face_upsampler = bg_upsampler if r.face_upsampler else None
+
+    net = ARCH_REGISTRY.get('CodeFormer')(dim_embd=512, codebook_size=1024, n_head=8, n_layers=9,
+                                          connect_list=['32', '64', '128', '256']).to(device)
+    ckpt_path = load_file_from_url(url=pretrain_model_url['restoration'], model_dir='models/CodeFormer', progress=True)
+    checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path)['params_ema']
+    net.load_state_dict(checkpoint)
+    net.eval()
+
+    face_helper = FaceRestoreHelper(
+        r.upscale,
+        face_size=512,
+        crop_ratio=(1, 1),
+        det_model=r.detection_model,
+        save_ext='png',
+        use_parse=True,
+        device=device
+    )
+
+    restored_images = []
+
+    for img_b64 in r.input_images:
+        face_helper.clean_all()
+        img_data = base64.b64decode(img_b64)
+        img_array = np.frombuffer(img_data, np.uint8)
+        img = cv2.imdecode(img_array, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
+
+        if r.has_aligned:
+            img = cv2.resize(img, (512, 512), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR)
+            face_helper.is_gray = is_gray(img, threshold=10)
+            face_helper.cropped_faces = [img]
+        else:
+            face_helper.read_image(img)
+            num_det_faces = face_helper.get_face_landmarks_5(only_center_face=r.only_center_face, resize=640,
+                                                             eye_dist_threshold=5)
+            log.info(f"Detected {num_det_faces} faces")
+            face_helper.align_warp_face()
+
+        for cropped_face in face_helper.cropped_faces:
+            cropped_face_t = img2tensor(cropped_face / 255., bgr2rgb=True, float32=True)
+            normalize(cropped_face_t, [0.5, 0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5, 0.5], inplace=True)
+            cropped_face_t = cropped_face_t.unsqueeze(0).to(device)
+
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                output = net(cropped_face_t, w=r.fidelity_weight, adain=True)[0]
+                restored_face = tensor2img(output, rgb2bgr=True, min_max=(-1, 1))
+            restored_face = restored_face.astype('uint8')
+            face_helper.add_restored_face(restored_face, cropped_face)
+
+        if not r.has_aligned:
+            bg_img = bg_upsampler.enhance(img, outscale=r.upscale)[0] if bg_upsampler else None
+            face_helper.get_inverse_affine(None)
+            restored_img = face_helper.paste_faces_to_input_image(upsample_img=bg_img, draw_box=r.draw_box,
+                                                                  face_upsampler=face_upsampler) if face_upsampler else face_helper.paste_faces_to_input_image(
+                upsample_img=bg_img, draw_box=r.draw_box)
+            _, buffer = cv2.imencode('.png', restored_img)
+            img_b64 = base64.b64encode(buffer).decode('utf-8')
+            restored_images.append(img_b64)
+
+    return jsonify(restored_images)
diff --git a/json_bodies/ImageRestoreFace.py b/json_bodies/ImageRestoreFace.py
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+++ b/json_bodies/ImageRestoreFace.py
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+from enum import Enum
+from typing import Optional, List
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+
+class DeviceEnum(str, Enum):
+    cuda = "cuda"
+    cpu = "cpu"
+
+
+class ImageRestoreFace(BaseModel):
+    input_images: List[str]
+    fidelity_weight: Optional[float] = 0.5
+    upscale: Optional[int] = 2
+    has_aligned: Optional[bool] = False
+    only_center_face: Optional[bool] = False
+    draw_box: Optional[bool] = False
+    detection_model: Optional[str] = "retinaface_resnet50"
+    bg_upsampler: Optional[str] = None
+    face_upsampler: Optional[bool] = False
+    bg_tile: Optional[int] = 400
+    device: Optional[DeviceEnum] = DeviceEnum.cuda
diff --git a/json_bodies/__init__.py b/json_bodies/__init__.py
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diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+import argparse
+
+from flask import Flask, Blueprint, jsonify
+
+from handlers import restore_face_route_v1
+from utils.logs import log
+
+# create a parser object
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="A Flask app to frontend Codeformer")
+
+# add arguments
+parser.add_argument('--port', type=int, default=5000, help='The port to run the server on')
+parser.add_argument('--prefix', type=str, default='codeformer', help='The route prefix for server to use')
+parser.add_argument('--host', type=str, default='127.0.0.1', help='The host')
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+# create a flask app with port, server as command line arguments
+app = Flask(__name__)
+prefix_route = Blueprint(args.prefix, __name__, url_prefix=f'/{args.prefix}')
+prefix_route.register_blueprint(restore_face_route_v1)
+
+app.register_blueprint(prefix_route)
+
+
+@app.errorhandler(404)
+def page_not_found(error):
+    log.error(error)
+    data = {"data": {"message": "Invalid route"}, "err": {}}
+    return jsonify(data), 404
+
+
+@app.errorhandler(405)
+def method_not_allowed(error):
+    log.error(error)
+    data = {"data": {"message": "Method not allowed"}, "err": {}}
+    return jsonify(data), 405
+
+
+# run the app
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.run(port=args.port, host=args.host)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,4 +14,7 @@ torchvision
 tqdm
 yapf
 lpips
-gdown # supports downloading the large file from Google Drive
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+gdown # supports downloading the large file from Google Drive
+flask
+structlog
+pydantic
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diff --git a/utils/__init__.py b/utils/__init__.py
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diff --git a/utils/logs.py b/utils/logs.py
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+++ b/utils/logs.py
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+import logging
+
+import structlog
+
+
+def init_logging():
+    structlog.configure(
+        processors=[
+            structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars,
+            structlog.processors.add_log_level,
+            structlog.processors.StackInfoRenderer(),
+            structlog.dev.set_exc_info,
+            structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
+            structlog.processors.JSONRenderer(),
+        ],
+        wrapper_class=structlog.make_filtering_bound_logger(logging.NOTSET),
+        context_class=dict,
+        logger_factory=structlog.PrintLoggerFactory(),
+        cache_logger_on_first_use=False,
+    )
+    logger = structlog.get_logger()
+    logger.debug("Logging initialized")
+    return logger
+
+
+log = init_logging()