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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

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I am trying to get pytesseract to run on a Windows 10 system but unfortunately always get the following error log:

  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 27, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\main.py", line 15, in <module>
    import pytesseract
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .pytesseract import ALTONotSupported
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 29, in <module>
    import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'

Process finished with exit code 1

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Created 3 years ago
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ChipmunkVcommented, Jan 25, 2022

Updating either pip or setuptools solves the problem. Versions that don’t work: pip 20.0.2, setuptools 45.2.0. Versions that do: pip 21.3.1, setuptools 60.5.0.

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halvomezcommented, Jul 21, 2021

hi, it’s ok with version 0.3.7, but 0.3.8 crash with same error

from .pytesseract import ALTONotSupported File "/tmp/pip-install-wt3k8kh5/pytesseract/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 28, in <module> import Image ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'