Cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL'

Question:

I’m trying to run this code:

import pyautogui
import time
from PIL import _imaging
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

time.sleep(5)
captura = pyautogui.screenshot()
codigo = captura.crop((872, 292, 983, 337))
codigo.save(r'C:autobot_wwe_supercardimagenescodigo.png')
time.sleep(2)
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:Program     
FilesTesseract-OCRtesseract'
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(r'D:codigo.png'))

And this error pops up: ImportError: cannot import name ‘imaging’ from ‘PIL’ (C:UsersUsuarioAppDataRoamingPythonPython38site-packagesPIL_init.py)

I installed pillow in console with pip install pillow

I installed pytesseract in console with pip install pytesseract

Asked By: Andresnex

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Answers:

It appears as if a lot of PIL ImportErrors can simply be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling Pillow again according to this source and your specific problem can be found here.

Try these three commands:

pip uninstall PIL
pip uninstall Pillow
pip install Pillow
Answered By: Samrat Sahoo

I needed Pillow in PyCharm with Python3.9.
Pillow was installed in Python3.8. Perhaps as user. PyCharm could find it with Py3.8, but not with Py3.9

This solved it for me:

sudo python3.9 -m pip install Pillow --upgrade

Upgrade it as sudo with that python version, which the script shall run with. Maybe, sudo is not needed, if you want to run it only in a virtual environment or as actual user.

Answered By: rundekugel

PIL has some binary dependencies which are tied to the version of Python they were built against.

In my case, the solution was to edit the runtime settings of my Amazon Lambda function and change it to an older version of Python which matched my dev environment.

The same error will occur if pillow was installed for an incompatible CPU architecture.

Answered By: copycat