Title: Save Images
Slug: save_images
Summary: How to save images using OpenCV in Python.
Date: 2017-09-11 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Images
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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# Load library
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

Load Image As Greyscale



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# Load image as grayscale
image = cv2.imread('images/plane.jpg', cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)

# Show image
plt.imshow(image, cmap='gray'), plt.axis("off")
plt.show()

Save Image



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# Save image
cv2.imwrite('images/plane_new.jpg', image)









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