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- OpenCV - Adding Text
- OpenCV - Drawing Arrowed Lines
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- OpenCV - Drawing an Ellipse
- OpenCV - Drawing a Rectangle
- OpenCV - Drawing a Line
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- OpenCV - Bilateral Filter
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OpenCV - Adding Text
You can add text to an image using the method arrowedLine() of the imgproc class. Following is the syntax of this method.
putText(img, text, org, fontFace, fontScale, Scalar color, int thickness)
This method accepts the following parameters −
mat − A Mat object representing the image to which the text is to be added.
text − A string variable of representing the text that is to be added.
org − A Point object representing the bottom left corner text string in the image.
fontFace − A variable of the type integer representing the font type.
fontScale − A variable of the type double representing the scale factor that is multipped by the font-specific base size.
scalar − A Scalar object representing the color of the text that is to be added. (BGR)
thickness − An integer representing the thickness of the pne by default, the value of thickness is 1.
Example
The following program demonstrates how to add text to an image and display it using JavaFX window.
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javafx.apppcation.Apppcation; import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils; import javafx.scene.Group; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.image.ImageView; import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage; import javafx.stage.Stage; import org.opencv.core.Core; import org.opencv.core.Mat; import org.opencv.core.MatOfByte; import org.opencv.core.Point; import org.opencv.core.Scalar; import org.opencv.imgcodecs.Imgcodecs; import org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc; pubpc class AddingTextToImage extends Apppcation { Mat matrix = null; @Override pubpc void start(Stage stage) throws Exception { // Capturing the snapshot from the camera AddingTextToImage obj = new AddingTextToImage(); WritableImage writableImage = obj.LoadImage(); // Setting the image view ImageView imageView = new ImageView(writableImage); // setting the fit height and width of the image view imageView.setFitHeight(600); imageView.setFitWidth(600); // Setting the preserve ratio of the image view imageView.setPreserveRatio(true); // Creating a Group object Group root = new Group(imageView); // Creating a scene object Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 400); // Setting title to the Stage stage.setTitle("Adding text to an image"); // Adding scene to the stage stage.setScene(scene); // Displaying the contents of the stage stage.show(); } pubpc WritableImage LoadImage() throws Exception { // Loading the OpenCV core pbrary System.loadLibrary( Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME ); // Reading the Image from the file and storing it in to a Matrix object String file ="E:/OpenCV/chap8/input.jpg"; Mat matrix = Imgcodecs.imread(file); // Adding Text Imgproc.putText ( matrix, // Matrix obj of the image "Ravivarma s Painting", // Text to be added new Point(10, 50), // point Core.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX , // front face 1, // front scale new Scalar(0, 0, 0), // Scalar object for color 4 // Thickness ); // Encoding the image MatOfByte matOfByte = new MatOfByte(); Imgcodecs.imencode(".jpg", matrix, matOfByte); // Storing the encoded Mat in a byte array byte[] byteArray = matOfByte.toArray(); // Displaying the image InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray); BufferedImage bufImage = ImageIO.read(in); this.matrix = matrix; //Creating the Writable Image WritableImage writableImage = SwingFXUtils.toFXImage(bufImage, null); return writableImage; } pubpc static void main(String args[]) { launch(args); } }
On executing the above program, you will get the following output −
![Adding Text](/opencv/images/adding_text.jpg)