How to make black background in cv2.putText with Python OpenCV

Use this function:

import cv2

def draw_text(img, text,
          font=cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_PLAIN,
          pos=(0, 0),
          font_scale=3,
          font_thickness=2,
          text_color=(0, 255, 0),
          text_color_bg=(0, 0, 0)
          ):

    x, y = pos
    text_size, _ = cv2.getTextSize(text, font, font_scale, font_thickness)
    text_w, text_h = text_size
    cv2.rectangle(img, pos, (x + text_w, y + text_h), text_color_bg, -1)
    cv2.putText(img, text, (x, y + text_h + font_scale - 1), font, font_scale, text_color, font_thickness)

    return text_size

Then you can invoke the function like this:

image = 127 * np.ones((100, 200, 3), dtype="uint8")
pos = (10, 10)
w, h = draw_text(image, "hello", pos=(10, 10))
draw_text(image, "world", font_scale=4, pos=(10, 20 + h), text_color_bg=(255, 0, 0))
cv2.imshow("image", image)
cv2.waitKey()

note that by default it paints a black background, but you can use a different color if you want.

There's no prebuilt method but a simple appraoch is to use cv2.rectangle + cv2.putText. All you need to do is to draw the black rectangle on the image followed by placing the text. You can adjust the x,y,w,h parameters depending on how large/small you want the rectangle. Here's an example:

Input image:

Result:

import cv2
import numpy as np

# Load image, define rectangle bounds
image = cv2.imread('1.jpg')
x,y,w,h = 0,0,175,75

# Draw black background rectangle
cv2.rectangle(image, (x, x), (x + w, y + h), (0,0,0), -1)

# Add text
cv2.putText(image, "THICC flower", (x + int(w/10),y + int(h/2)), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.7, (255,255,255), 2)

# Display
cv2.imshow('image', image)
cv2.waitKey()

Here is one way to do that in Python OpenCV.

• Read the input
• Create an image of your desired background color that is the same size as the input
• Draw your text on the background image
• Get the bounding rectangle for the text region
• Copy the text region from the background color image to a copy of the input image
• Save the results

Input:

import cv2
import numpy as np

# load image
img = cv2.imread("zelda1.jpg")

# create same size image of background color
bg_color = (0,0,0)
bg = np.full((img.shape), bg_color, dtype=np.uint8)

# draw text on bg
text_color = (0,0,255)
cv2.putText(bg, "Data: N/A", (5,30), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX_SMALL, 0.75, text_color, 1)

# get bounding box
# use channel corresponding to color so that text is white on black background
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(bg[:,:,2])
print(x,y,w,h)

# copy bounding box region from bg to img
result = img.copy()
result[y:y+h, x:x+w] = bg[y:y+h, x:x+w]

# write result to disk
cv2.imwrite("zelda1_background_text.jpg", bg)
cv2.imwrite("zelda1_text.jpg", result)

# display results
cv2.imshow("TEXT", bg)
cv2.imshow("RESULT", result)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Text on background color image:

Text on input image:

P.S. You can adjust the bounding rectangle (x,y,w,h) values to add some padding if you want when you do the crop.

import cv2 \
import numpy as np

#### Load image, define rectangle bounds
image = cv2.imread(r'C:\Users\Bharath\Downloads\test.jpg')

#### overlay space
x,y,w,h = 40,30,300,60


#### alpha, the 4th channel of the image
alpha = 0.3

overlay = image.copy()
output = image.copy()


##### corner
cv2.rectangle(overlay, (x, x), (x + w, y + h), (0,0,0), -1)

##### putText
cv2.putText(overlay, "HELLO WORLD..!", (x + int(w/10),y + int(h/1.5)), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.7, (255,255,255), 2)

#### apply the overlay
cv2.addWeighted(overlay, alpha, output, 1 - alpha,0, output)


##### Display
cv2.imshow("Output", output)\
cv2.waitKey(0)

`

input

output