This course is part of the Python 3 Programming Specialization

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This course will walk you through a hands-on project suitable for a portfolio. You will be introduced to third-party APIs and will be shown how to manipulate images using the Python imaging library (pillow), how to apply optical character recognition to images to recognize text (tesseract and py-tesseract), and how to identify faces in images using the popular opencv library. By the end of the course you will have worked with three different libraries available for Python 3 to create a real-world data-analysis project.
The course is best-suited for learners who have taken the first four courses of the Python 3 Programming Specialization. Learners who already have Python programming skills but want to practice with a hands-on, real-world data-analysis project can also benefit from this course.

This is the fifth and final course in the Python 3 Programming Specialization.

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Python 3 Programming Specialization

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Approx. 20 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

What you will learn

How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3

How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate images, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text

How to apply the python tesseract (py-tesseract) library with Python 3 in order to detect text in images through optical character recognition (OCR)

How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, & how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets

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Course 5 of 5 in the

Python 3 Programming Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 20 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Christopher Brooks

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

5 hours to complete

The Python Imaging Library

5 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 73 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

10 videos

Introduction to the Specialization11m

Welcome to Python Project: pillow, tesseract, opencv3m

Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks6m

How to install Jupyter on Windows (Optional)8m

How to install Jupyter on a Mac (Optional)8m

The Python Runtime Environment4m

Python Imaging Library (PIL)7m

Common Functions in the Python Imaging Library8m

Additional PIL Functions11m

Introduction to Week One Assignment2m

3 readings

Syllabus10m

Help Us Learn More About You!10m

Syllabus10m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Tesseract and Optical Character Recognition

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 41 min)

Week

Week 3

14 hours to complete

Computer Vision with OpenCV

14 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 51 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM PYTHON PROJECT: PILLOW, TESSERACT, AND OPENCV

by PMJun 23, 2020

This last course is much more challenging than the prior four, but provides a very good launch pad for taking what you've learned and getting you actually using the skills in building Python code.

by RFApr 1, 2021

This course gave great insight in how to approach a new library which I believe is one of the most powerful skills a programmer can have. Keep up the great work that you guys have been doing.

by ACMay 25, 2020

I thought the course was very interesting and well structured. I really enjoyed it but the platform Jupyter was incredibly slow and the submission format of the final project was a bit silly

by MHJun 29, 2020

i would have rated it 5 star if not for very poor submission system. this course is very challenging and if you are not up for challenges think twice before enrolling.

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About the Python 3 Programming Specialization

This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list comprehensions, lambda expressions, and class inheritance.

You will have lots of opportunities to practice. You will also learn ways to reason about program execution, so that it is no longer mysterious and you are able to debug programs when they don’t work. By the end of the specialization, you’ll be writing programs that query Internet APIs for data and extract useful information from them. And you’ll be able to learn to use new modules and APIs on your own by reading the documentation. That will give you a great launch toward being an independent Python programmer. This specialization is a good next step for you if you have completed Python for Everybody but want a more in-depth treatment of Python fundamentals and more practice, so that you can proceed with confidence to specializations like Applied Data Science with Python. But it is also appropriate as a first set of courses in Python if you are already familiar with some other programming language, or if you are up for the challenge of diving in head-first.

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When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
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Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv