How to install OpenCV

Install OpenCV-Python in Windows

Goals

In this tutorial

• 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

1. 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).

2. Install all packages into their default locations. Python will be installed to C:/Python27/.

3. After installation, open Python IDLE. Enter import numpy and make sure Numpy is working fine.

4. Download latest OpenCV release from sourceforge site and double-click to extract it.

7. Goto opencv/build/python/2.7 folder.

8. Copy cv2.pyd to C:/Python27/lib/site-packeges.

9. 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