What Is OpenCV And Installation

Hello, in this tutorial series, the aim is to explain everything step by step from the very beginning to the end, following the OpenCV documentation.

What is OpenCV?

• OpenCV is a video and image processing library.
• It is bound to C++, C, Python, and Java languages.
• It is used in all kinds of video and visual analysis tasks such as face recognition and detection, license plate reading, photo editing, advanced robotics imaging, optical character recognition, and much more.

Installation

For Windows users

• pip install numpy
• pip install matplotlib
• pip install opencv-python

For Linux or Mac users

• pip3 install numpy or apt-get install python3-numpy. You may also need to install pip first with apt-get install python3-pip.
• pip3 install matplotlib or apt-get install python3-matplotlib.
• apt-get install python-OpenCV.

Source: OpenCV Python Tutorials — Original Documentation