added code for handling videos.

driver.py

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+import cv2
+import os
+import pytesseract
+
+def get_property(path_to_video) :
+    """
+    Computes properties given the path of the video
+    
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    path_to_video - path to the mp4 file
+   
+    Returns
+    -------
+    fps - frames per second
+    frames - total frames in video
+    width - width of the frame
+    height - height of the frame
+    """
+    video = cv2.VideoCapture(path_to_video)    
+    fps = video.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS)
+    width = video.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)
+    height = video.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT)
+    frames = video.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)
+
+    video.release()
+    return int(fps), int(frames), int(width), int(height)
+
+def display_video(path_to_video) : 
+    """
+    Displays video
+    
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    path_to_video - path to the mp4 file
+    
+    Returns
+    -------
+    NA
+    """
+    video = cv2.VideoCapture(path_to_video)
+    while(video.isOpened()) :
+        _ , frame = video.read()        
+        gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
+        cv2.imshow('frame', gray)
+        fps, _, _, _ = get_property(path_to_video)
+        wait_ms = int(1000/fps)
+
+        if cv2.waitKey(wait_ms) & 0xFF == ord('q') :
+            break
+    video.release()
+    cv2.destroyAllWindows()
+
+def extract_images(path_to_video, path_to_images) :
+    """
+    Extract images from video
+    
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    path_to_video - path to the mp4 file
+    path_to_images - path to the directory to save images
+    
+    Returns
+    -------
+    NA
+    """
+    count = 0    
+    if not os.path.exists(path_to_images):
+        os.makedirs(path_to_images)
+    video = cv2.VideoCapture(path_to_video)
+    while(video.isOpened()) :
+        ret, frame = video.read()
+        if not ret :
+            break       
+        image_name = str(count)+".jpg"
+        cv2.imwrite(os.path.join(path_to_images, image_name), frame)
+        count+=1
+    video.release()
+
+
+def create_video(path_to_images, path_to_video, fps, seconds) :
+    """
+    Saves video of the length equal to seconds
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    path_to_images - directory that contains images of full video
+    path_to_video - path to video file that has to be saved
+    fps - frames per second
+    seconds - number of seconds to save
+    
+    Returns
+    -------
+    NA
+    """
+    frames = seconds*fps
+    image_count = 0
+    image_path = os.path.join(path_to_images, str(image_count)+".jpg")
+    image = cv2.imread(image_path)
+    height, width, _ = image.shape
+
+    # Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
+    fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'mp4v')
+    video = cv2.VideoWriter(path_to_video, fourcc, fps, (width, height))
+
+    while(frames):
+        image_path = os.path.join(path_to_images, str(image_count)+".jpg")
+        image = cv2.imread(image_path)
+
+        video.write(image)
+        frames-=1 
+        image_count+=1
+
+    # Release everything if job is finished
+    video.release()
+
+
+
+def get_videotime(frame) :
+    """
+    Crops the time-in-video and returns the timestamp
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    frame - image frame
+    
+    Returns
+    -------
+    text - timestamp present on the image 
+
+    """
+    # Crop the time portion
+    frame = frame[0:25,0:220]
+    # perform ocr
+    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(frame)  
+    return text
+
+# Sample paths
+
+path_to_video = "../files/videos/1569843500.mp4"
+path_to_new_video = "../files/videos/raw60.mp4"
+path_to_images = "../files/images"
+path_to_image = "../files/images/0.jpg"
+