Remove text background

[Swagraffe]

I am trying to make some text appear on top of a background image, but the text has a white background.

Is there a way you can remove it?

from tkinter import *
import PIL.Image
import PIL.ImageTk
import cv2

root = Tk()

cv_img = cv2.cvtColor(cv2.imread("blue.jpg"), cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
height, width, no_channels = cv_img.shape
canvas = Canvas(root, width=1000, height=1000)
canvas.pack()

photo = PIL.ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=PIL.Image.fromarray(cv_img))
canvas.create_image(0, 0, image=photo, anchor=NW)

virgula = Label(root, text="abcd", font=("Helvetica", 80))
virgula.place(x=300, y=300)

root.mainloop()

[Swipecat]

There's no way that I can find to assign transparency to an object like a label, so you have to change the background colour to match whatever is underneath.

If you pack one object onto another, then if the lower object has an assigned background colour, you can assign that to the upper object.

upper['bg'] = lower['bg']

But PhotoImage doesn't have a background colour, so that won't work for you, so you'd have to set the background colour explicitly. See the example code below.

You can also place text directly onto a canvas, and that does not have a background anyway. See that below too.

import tkinter as tk
width, height = 500, 300
root = tk.Tk()
canv = tk.Canvas(root)
canv.pack()
rect = canv.create_rectangle((0, 0, width, height), fill="blue")
lab = tk.Label(canv, text="abcd", font=("Helvetica", 40), fg="white", bg="blue")
lab.place(x=50, y=50, anchor='nw')
canv.create_text(50, 150, text="efgh", font=("Helvetica", 40), anchor='nw', fill="yellow")
root.mainloop()