Install OpenCV-Python in Windows
Goals
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In this tutorial
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- We will learn to setup OpenCV-Python in your Windows system.
Below steps are tested in a Windows 7-64 bit machine with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. The screenshots shows VS2012.
Installing OpenCV from prebuilt binaries
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Below Python packages are to be downloaded and installed to their default locations.
1.1. Python-2.7.x.
1.2. Numpy.
1.3. Matplotlib (Matplotlib is optional, but recommended since we use it a lot in our tutorials).
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Install all packages into their default locations. Python will be installed to C:/Python27/.
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After installation, open Python IDLE. Enter
import numpy
and make sure Numpy is working fine. -
Download latest OpenCV release from sourceforge site and double-click to extract it.
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Goto opencv/build/python/2.7 folder.
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Copy cv2.pyd to C:/Python27/lib/site-packeges.
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Open Python IDLE and type following codes in Python terminal.
>>> import cv2 >>> print cv2.__version__
If the results are printed out without any errors, congratulations !!! You have installed OpenCV-Python successfully.
Link:http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_setup/py_setup_in_windows/py_setup_in_windows.html