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Python 3 Programming SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

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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

Intermediate Level

Approx. 19 hours to complete

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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. 19 hours to complete

English

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Christopher Brooks

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

5 hours to complete

The Python Imaging Library

5 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 73 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

10 videos

Introduction to the Specialization11mWelcome to Python Project: pillow, tesseract, opencv3mIntroduction to Jupyter Notebooks6mHow to install Jupyter on Windows (Optional)8mHow to install Jupyter on a Mac (Optional)8mThe Python Runtime Environment4mPython Imaging Library (PIL)7mCommon Functions in the Python Imaging Library8mAdditional PIL Functions11mIntroduction to Week One Assignment2m

2 readings

Syllabus10mHelp Us Learn More About You!10m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Tesseract and Optical Character Recognition

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 41 min)

Week3

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 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 RKMay 4, 2019

by JEJan 29, 2021

Great course! Final project had bugs in online component - better to download course content and run locally.

by IASep 26, 2020

Very reach and useful. The project is pretty hard and requires more knowing use python, that it outside the scope of this course

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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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What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?
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

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