opencv in openvino and my own opencv

[es__we]

I have a question: Can I install my own opencv if I have installed openvino? And if I don't activate the openvino environment and import cv2 in a python script, will it use the opencv that installed myself? Or I needn't install opencv any more if I have installed openvino? Thanks.

[Maksim_S_Intel]

Yes, you can install another OpenCV along with OpenVINO. The one from OpenVINO will not be used if you do not activate OpenVINO environment. setupvars.sh script just sets OpenCV_DIR, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables.

To check which OpenCV version have been loaded in Python, add following commands to your script:

print(cv2.__version__)
print(cv2.__file__)

[illAdvised]

I didn't run the setupvars.bat file because I also wanted my own version of opencv for my program. However, I now get the following error when trying to import inference_engine:

from .ie_api import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

If this post is still open, any help would be appreciated!

[illAdvised]

Never mind, I was able to edit the batch file in a way that corrected my issue