Welcome to Python Project: PILLOW, tesseract, and opencv

Getting Started!

In order to be successful in this course you will need to have a willingness to put in the time and engage with the material. This course has been designed with the idea that you have finished all of the previous courses in the specialization and now want to take your skills further and become an independent python programmer.

Week by week

In week one the video lectures will introduce the python PILLOW module, and you will see how to manipulate images in the Jupyter notebooks. Your first assignment, worth 10% of your grade, is here.

In week two the video lectures will introduce the tesseract application, and the pytesseract library, and you will learn how to apply optical character recognition (OCR) to image data within python.

In week three you will be introduced to the opencv and kraken libraries, and you will learn how you can leverage python to both detect faces in image data as well as improve the efficiency of optical character recognition. In addition, you will be introduced to a project for the course, worth 90% of your grade.

Peer Evaluation

All evaluation in this course is peer evaluation, but don't worry, there is plenty of description in the assignment and projects, so you should know if you've completed the assignment correctly or not before handing it in. Please read the rubric carefully and choose the options that most closely match the elements of the assignment you are grading.

Just a reminder to visit Coursera’s Code of Conduct and to abide by guidelines there. It is important when giving feedback to your peers to be polite and to be sensitive to the diversity of cultures and backgrounds of learners in your course.

Please also review Coursera’s help articles on peer reviewed assignments .

Grading Formula for Python Project: PILLOW, tesseract, and opencv

In accordance with Coursera's practice, you must pass every graded element to pass the course. They are as follows:

Week One: 10%

Week Three: 90%

Getting Help

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If you have questions with the content of the course, or questions about programming in Python or with the toolkits described, you can contact your peers and the course instructors in the Coursera Discussion Forums . If you have more general questions about Python or the libraries taught, go to Stack Overflow.

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Accessibility

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Contact with the Instructor

Given the large number of students in this course the teaching assistants or instructor(s) should not be contacted directly with any questions. While we appreciate the time and effort you put into the course, responding to questions is virtually impossible. But teaching assistants will monitor the forums and will keep the instructor informed on a regular basis.