pycamera
An easier solution to computer vision.
What is pycamera?
PyCamera is a computer vision library for people who don't know how to use OpenCV, don't want to use OpenCV for such a simple project, or want something easier!
Installation
pip3 install pycamera
This will install pycamera, NumPy, and OpenCV.
Examples
Save Picture
from pycamera import camera
cam = camera.Camera(0) # Choosing a camera
snap = cam.snap() # Snapping a picture from that camera
snap.save("output.jpg") # Save picture to output.jpg
Editing with Pillow
from pycamera import camera
from PIL import ImageDraw
cam = camera.Camera(0) # Choosing a camera
snap = cam.snap() # Snap photo
image = snap.to_pillow() # Convert pycamera image to Pillow image
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
white = (255, 255, 255)
draw.ellipse([(10, 10), (100, 100)], width=3, fill=white, outline=white) # Draw circle
image.show()
Live View
import pycamera
from pycamera import camera
cam = camera.Camera(0) # Choosing a camera
while True:
snap = cam.read() # (reading is better for loops)
snap.show()
pycamera.waitForKey() # Wait until key is pressed (default key is Escape)