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+# Script Title
+#### Script to reduce the size of image file using the openCV library of python.
+
+### Prerequisites
+openCV library
+
+`pip install opencv-python`
+
+### How to run the script
+- Add the image in jpg format with name as 'input.jpg' in this folder.
+- Run reduce_image_size.py script.
+- resized output image will be generated in this folder.
+
+## *Author Name*
+### *Vipul Verma*
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+# import openCV library for image handling
+import cv2
+
+# read image to be resized by imread() function of openCV library
+img = cv2.imread('input.jpg')
+print(img.shape)
+
+# set the ratio of resized image
+k = 5
+width = int((img.shape[1])/k)
+height = int((img.shape[0])/k)
+
+# resize the image by resize() function of openCV library
+scaled = cv2.resize(img, (width, height), interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
+print(scaled.shape)
+
+# show the resized image using imshow() function of openCV library
+cv2.imshow("Output", scaled)
+cv2.waitKey(500)
+cv2.destroyAllWindows()
+
+# get the resized image output by imwrite() function of openCV library
+cv2.imwrite('resized_output_image.jpg', scaled)
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