opencv

Install command: 
brew install opencv

Also known as: opencv@4

Formerly known as: opencv3

Open source computer vision library

https://opencv.org/

License: Apache-2.0

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/opencv.json

Formula code: opencv.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 4.12.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 11

Depends on:

abseil 20250814.0 C++ Common Libraries
ceres-solver 2.2.0 C++ library for large-scale optimization
eigen 3.4.0 C++ template library for linear algebra
ffmpeg 8.0 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
freetype 2.14.1 Software library to render fonts
gflags 2.2.2 Library for processing command-line flags
glog 0.6.0 Application-level logging library
harfbuzz 11.5.0 OpenType text shaping engine
jpeg-turbo 3.1.2 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
jsoncpp 1.9.6 Library for interacting with JSON
libpng 1.6.50 Library for manipulating PNG images
libtiff 4.7.1 TIFF library and utilities
numpy 2.3.3 Package for scientific computing with Python
openblas 0.3.30 Optimized BLAS library
openexr 3.4.0 High dynamic-range image file format
openjpeg 2.5.4 Library for JPEG-2000 image manipulation
openvino 2025.3.0 Open Visual Inference And Optimization toolkit for AI inference
protobuf 32.1 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
python@3.13 3.13.7 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
tbb 2022.2.0 Rich and complete approach to parallelism in C++
tesseract 5.5.1 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine
vtk 9.5.2 Toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization
webp 1.6.0 Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images
glew 2.2.0 OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
imath 3.2.1 Library of 2D and 3D vector, matrix, and math operations
libarchive 3.8.1 Multi-format archive and compression library

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.1.1 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python-setuptools 80.9.0 Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages

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