Install OpenCV via pip on Python 3.5 64-bit

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I tried to install OpenCV, and I couldn't find any suitable pip packages for it. I decided to look online for official documentation on how to install it, and found this. Unfortunately, not only does this documentation only give support for versions using python 2.7, it also says to install OpenCV manually by downloading it from sourceforge rather than using a package manager like pip.

I want to know if there's a better or more official way of installing OpenCV in python 3.5, or failing that, a package in pip I should install instead.

The difficulty to make it work with pip lays in the number of C header files that need to be referenced. Nevertheless, it would be great to have a straightforward way to install this. Maybe, pip and some environmental vars. — Falk Schuetzenmeister
– Falk Schuetzenmeister, Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 22:45

B. Scholz · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-09 22:48:12Z

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What OS are you on? If it's Windows have a look at

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#opencv

To properly install the available wheels make sure you have pip version 8 installed.

answered Jun 9, 2016 at 22:48

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