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+A Qt widget to display video output from a webcam or capture source,
+and a tiny demo-app that uses the widget, and implements a simple
+"view-and-shoot" camera application.
+
+Requires Qt 4 and OpenCV (along with highgui from OpenCV).
+
+To compile and run the demo app (and documentation) run:
+  qmake && make doc && make && ./qopencamviewer 
+