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 Starting from version 4.7.0 the Mac OS GitHub Actions build environment was update to version 11. Mac OS 10.x support deprecated. See https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5583
 
 Starting from version 4.9.0 the Mac OS GitHub Actions build environment was update to version 12. Mac OS 10.x support deprecated by Brew and most of used packages.
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+## Example Usage (Python)
+
+Below is a minimal example that loads an image, converts it to grayscale, and saves the output.
+
+```python
+import cv2
+
+img = cv2.imread("input.jpg")
+if img is None:
+    raise FileNotFoundError("Could not read input.jpg")
+
+gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
+cv2.imwrite("output_gray.jpg", gray)
+print("Saved output_gray.jpg")