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 Python Computer Vision Library
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+.. |Travis| image:: https://api.travis-ci.org/luispedro/mahotas.png
+.. |Downloads| image:: https://pypip.in/d/mahotas/badge.png
+.. |License| image:: https://pypip.in/license/mahotas/badge.png
+.. _Travis: https://travis-ci.org/luispedro/mahotas
+.. _Downloads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mahotas
+.. _License: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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 Mahotas is a library of fast computer vision algorithms (all implemented in
 C++) operates over numpy arrays for convenience.
 
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 suite.
 
 
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