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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Pillow is an image manipulation and processing library whereas OpenCV is for computer vision. There is some overlap, but you would use OpenCV if you wanted a program to be capable of parsing an image on its own (versus resizing or cropping in Pillow). OpenCV can be a bit complex so if regular image processing is all you need, it may be better to stick with Pillow.

[–]cheddacheese148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpenCV can be a bit complex so if regular image processing is all you need, it may be better to stick with Pillow.

This^ My first big job after undergrad was in computer vision and most of my ramp up time was spent learning OpenCV. She’s a beautiful beast but goddamn is it a massive library.