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 Pre-built CPU-only OpenCV packages for Python.
 
+OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV Python provides a set of easy-to-use functions for image and video processing, including image loading, filtering, transformation, feature extraction, object detection, and more.
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 Check the manual build section if you wish to compile the bindings from source to enable additional modules such as CUDA.
 
 ### Installation and Usage