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.
This course is part of the Python 3 Programming Specialization
Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv
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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
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
16 hours to complete
The Python Imaging Library
10 videos (Total 73 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
10 videos
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
1 reading
Syllabus10m
Week
22 hours to complete
Tesseract and Optical Character Recognition
6 videos (Total 41 min)
6 videos
Open-Source Software4m
The (Py)Tesseract Library7m
More Tesseract11m
Tesseract and Photographs11m
Jupyter Widgets (Optional)3m
Week
314 hours to complete
Computer Vision with OpenCV
4 videos (Total 51 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz
4 videos
Comparing Image Data Structures12m
OpenCV17m
More Jupyter Widgets (Optional)3m
4 readings
Hint 110m
Hint 210m
Hint 310m
Hint 410m
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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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Once you enroll for a Certificate, you’ll have access to all videos, quizzes, and programming assignments (if applicable). Peer review assignments can only be submitted and reviewed once your session has begun. If you choose to explore the course without purchasing, you may not be able to access certain assignments.
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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