Error 'module' object has no attribute 'freetype'

Question

I am using this code Link but it displays error of module object has no attribute i tried to pip install freetype but nothing happened. Can anyone please guide me with this.

import cv2
import numpy as np   
img = np.zeros((100, 300, 3), dtype=np.uint8)

ft = cv2.freetype.createFreeType2()
ft.loadFontData(fontFileName='Ubuntu-R.ttf',
                id=0)
ft.putText(img=img,
           text='Quick Fox',
           org=(15, 70),
           fontHeight=60,
           color=(255,  255, 255),
           thickness=-1,
           line_type=cv2.LINE_AA,
           bottomLeftOrigin=True)

cv2.imwrite('image.png', img)

Answer 1

If cv2.freetype does not run in python you can still use freetype-py module.

I have written a wrapper around the PIL library api calls in opencv for python2/3 which can be used in the following way: (download from https://github.com/bunkahle/PILasOPENCV )

from __future__ import print_function
import PILasOPENCV as Image
import PILasOPENCV as ImageDraw
import PILasOPENCV as ImageFont
import cv2

font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", 30)
print(font)
im = Image.new("RGB", (512, 512), "grey")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
text = "Some text in arial"
draw.text((100, 250), text, font=font, fill=(0, 0, 0))
print(ImageFont.getsize(text, font))
mask = ImageFont.getmask(text, font)
print(type(mask))
cv2.imshow("mask", mask)
im.show()
im_numpy = im.getim()
print(type(im_numpy), im_numpy.shape, im_numpy.dtype)

It uses the freetype-py module in the background. PILasOPENCV is actually a project for migrating old PIL projects to OPENCV. Install with

setup.py install 

or

pip install PILasOPENCV 

More details and test can be found in github.

Answer 2

I find opencv-contrib-python-4.5.3.56 does not have freetype. I downgraded it to version 4.4.0.46, then it works.

pip3 install opencv-contrib-python==4.4.0.46

Answer 3

You're just missing opencv-contrib, you can install that with pip install opencv-contrib-python.