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 OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library: <http://opencv.org>) is an open-source BSD-licensed
 library that includes several hundreds of computer vision algorithms. The document describes the
-so-called OpenCV 2.x API, which is essentially a C++ API, as opposite to the C-based OpenCV 1.x API.
+so-called OpenCV 2.x API, which is essentially a C++ API, as opposed to the C-based OpenCV 1.x API.
 The latter is described in opencv1x.pdf.
 
 OpenCV has a modular structure, which means that the package includes several shared or static