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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:

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