[Python] I am reading an image with cv2.imread(), and converting it to grayscale. However why...

I went to read up the syntax of cv2.imread() method and it says that specifying the flag=0 will load the image in grayscale.

The original image is this:

Original Image

And I executed the following code with the following libs, no errors.

import cv2 import pytesseract import matplotlib import image
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img=cv2.imread("C:/Users/HP_Demo/Desktop/cv2/sample02.png",0)

plt.imshow(img)

plt.show()

The result is this: Result image

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