Installing opencv on Windows 10 with python 3.6 and anaconda 3.6

Question

How to install opencv with python 3.6 and anaconda 3.6?

I tried conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/menpo opencv3

but i get the following

Answer 1

From menpo file page, it shows that the OpenCV 3.2 binary there are only for Python 2.7/3.4/3.5 and on linux-64 platform

You may go to the this site to get the exact version you need.

• opencv_python‑3.2.0‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl is the basic one.
• opencv_python‑3.2.0+contrib‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl is the one with opencv-contrib modules such as the text module for binding to tesseract OCR engine and many others.

Both binary are for OpenCV 3.2 with Python 3.6 binding for Windows 64-bit. To install it, 1) download the binary to local drive, 2) open your Anaconda command prompt and 3) type the command below in the directory the binary locates.

pip install opencv_python‑3.2.0+contrib‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl

Hope this help.

Update on 2018-02-22:

OpenCV 3.4.0 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site and replaced OpenCV 3.3.0

Update on 2019-01-30:

OpenCV 4.0.1 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.5/3.6/3.7 support.