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Jun Wang picture Jun Wang · Aug 29, 2014 · Viewed 20.6k times · Source

Recently, I want to use the OpenCV library in Python, but the documentation of Python binding of OpenCV is very unclear and insufficient. I want to ask where to find some detailed documentation of Python binding of OpenCV. Previously I used OpenCV in C++, and the documentation is very helpful, more over I can go to the source code of it where I was in doubt. But the source code of Python binding doesn't provide much information, I think. For example, it takes me a long time to find out that the CV_8UC1 flag is in the module cv2.CV_8UC1, but the flag CV_CAP_PROP_FPS is in the module cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FPS.

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Unapiedra picture Unapiedra · Oct 16, 2014

There doesn't seem to be any nice documentations. Sometimes information is provided about the Python API as part of the normal documentation.

To get started and to get a feel for how the Python OpenCV interface works, have a look at the official Python tutorials.

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