Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) is a BSD-licensed open source library for computer vision and image processing. The document outlines OpenCV's capabilities including image enhancement, object classification and tracking, and face detection and recognition. It provides examples of using OpenCV in C++ and Python to load and display images, detect faces, and enhance images. The document concludes that OpenCV is a cross-platform library with over 2,000 algorithms for computer vision and image processing tasks.