Finding documentation, help, and updates
OpenCV's documentation can be found online at http://docs.opencv.org/. The documentation includes a combined API reference for OpenCV's new C++ API, its new Python API (which is based on the C++ API), old C API, and its old Python API (which is based on the C API). When looking up a class or function, be sure to read the section about the new Python API (the cv2
module), and not the old Python API (the cv
module).
The documentation is also available as several downloadable PDF files:
- API reference: This documentation can be found at http://docs.opencv.org/modules/refman.html
- Tutorials: These documents can be found at http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/tutorials.html (these tutorials use the C++ code; for ...
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