Reputation: 2445
I am a beginner at computers. I use Anaconda python 3.6 in windows 10. I have already installed OpenCV using this command:
pip install opencv-python
But when I try to import cv2 using this:
import cv2
this error shows up:
How can I install openCV for python?
Upvotes: 12
Views: 66160
Reputation: 356
I was facing a similar issue. In my case, the issue occured because of previous dependencies.
!pip install easyocr
!pip install imutils
if you are running these commands first and then importing
import cv2
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import imutils
import easyocr
then you will get this error. So you first import CV2 and then pip install easyocr or other libraries. This worked in my case.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 119
This happened to me because I setup a virtual environment with python 32-bit and my modules required the 64-bit version so it seemed there was a version conflict of CV. Changing the python version in my environment fixed the issue.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 9
Try reinstalling openCV
— it worked for me.
To uninstall:
pip uninstall opencv-python
To reinstall:
pip install opencv-python
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 31
In my case, using Python 3.8 on Windows 10 and Pycharm (or VS Code as well), I have this same issue.
Finally I noticed that the Antivirus (Nod32) deletes the cv2.cp38-win32.pyd
file that should be in the cv2 folder. I simply paused the protection, installed opencv with pip install opencv-python
command and it worked just fine.
I hope it helps someone.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 345
I had this exact same problem on Windows 10. Uninstalling via pip and then reinstalling in my virtual environment fixed everything up for me.
Here's a link that helped https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 219
Based on python opencv link: https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/
Step 1: Uninstall the opencv first if you have previous/other manually installed (= not installed via pip) version of OpenCV installed (e.g. cv2 module in the root of Python's site-packages)):
pip uninstall opencv-python
Step 2: Install the package afresh
pip install opencv-python
Hope that works!
Upvotes: 21
Reputation: 2445
I used the answer provided here and it worked.
By running pip install opencv_python-3.4.5-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 798
try this:
Create Virtual Environment
conda create --name opencv-env python=3.6
Activate the environment
activate opencv-env
Install OpenCV and other important packages
pip install numpy scipy matplotlib scikit-learn jupyter
pip install opencv-contrib-python
pip install dlib
Test your installation
import cv2
cv2.__version__
Upvotes: 7