Show Image With Matplotlib Matplotlib is a drawing library that offers a wide variety of drawing methods for Python. Matplotlib; The basic python library we use in data visualization. It allows us to make 2 and 3 dimensional drawings. In order to use Matplotlib, we need to add it to our project as follows: from matplotlib import pyplot as plt The image is read as follows: img = cv2.imread( 'bird.jpg' ) Finally, the captured image is displayed on the screen with the following code: plt.imshow(img) plt.xticks([]) , plt.yticks([]) plt.show() Code and output are as follows: import cv2 from matplotlib import pyplot as plt img = cv2.imread( 'bird.jpg' ) plt.imshow(img) plt.xticks([]) , plt.yticks([]) plt.show() Output: