scipy.misc module has no attribute imread?
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I am trying to read an image with scipy. However it does not accept the scipy.misc.imread
part. What could be the cause of this?
>>> import scipy
>>> scipy.misc
<module 'scipy.misc' from 'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\misc\__init__.pyc'>
>>> scipy.misc.imread('test.tif')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
scipy.misc.imread('test.tif')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'imread'
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
imread
is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0.
Use imageio.imread
instead.
import imageio
im = imageio.imread('astronaut.png')
im.shape # im is a numpy array
(512, 512, 3)
imageio.imwrite('imageio:astronaut-gray.jpg', im[:, :, 0])
Solution 2 - Python
You need to install Pillow (formerly PIL). From the docs on scipy.misc
:
> Note that Pillow is not a dependency of SciPy but the image manipulation functions indicated in the list below are not available without it:
>
> ...
>
> imread
>
>...
After installing Pillow, I was able to access imread
as follows:
In [1]: import scipy.misc
In [2]: scipy.misc.imread
Out[2]: <function scipy.misc.pilutil.imread>
Solution 3 - Python
imread is depreciated after version 1.2.0! So to solve this issue I had to install version 1.1.0.
pip install scipy==1.1.0
Solution 4 - Python
For Python 3, it is best to use imread
in matplotlib.pyplot
:
from matplotlib.pyplot import imread
Solution 5 - Python
In case anyone encountering the same issue, please uninstall scipy and install scipy==1.1.0
$ pip uninstall scipy
$ pip install scipy==1.1.0
Solution 6 - Python
You need the Python Imaging Library (PIL) but alas! the PIL project seems to have been abandoned. In particular, it hasn't been ported to Python 3. So if you want PIL functionality in Python 3, you'll do well do use Pillow, which is the semi-official fork of PIL and appears to be actively developed. Actually, if you need a modern PIL implementation at all I'd recommend Pillow. It's as simple as pip install pillow
. As it uses the same namespace as PIL it's essentially a drop-in replacement.
How "semi-official" is this fork? you may ask. The About page of the Pillow docs say this:
> As more time passes since the last PIL release, the likelihood of a > new PIL release decreases. However, we’ve yet to hear an official “PIL > is dead” announcement. So if you still want to support PIL, please > report issues here first, then open corresponding Pillow tickets here. > > Please provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue(s) > upstream.
However, the most recent PIL release on the official PIL site is dated November 15, 2009. I think we can safely proclaim Pillow as the successor of PIL after (as of this writing) nearly eight years of no new releases. So even if you don't need Python 3 support, I suggest you eschew the ancient PIL 1.1.6 distribution available in PyPI and just install fresh, up-to-date, compatible Pillow.
Solution 7 - Python
As answered misc.imread is deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0. imageio is one option,it will return object of type :
<class 'imageio.core.util.Image'>
but instead of imageio, use cv2
import cv2
im = cv2.imread('astronaut.png')
im will be of type :
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
As numpy arrays are faster to compute.
Solution 8 - Python
Install the Pillow library by following commands:
pip install pillow
Note, the selected answer has been outdated. See the docs of SciPy
> Note that Pillow (https://python-pillow.org/) is not a dependency of SciPy, but the image manipulation functions indicated in the list below are not available without it.
Solution 9 - Python
Imread uses PIL library, if the library is installed use :
from scipy.ndimage import imread
Source: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.17.0/reference/generated/scipy.ndimage.imread.html
Solution 10 - Python
python -m pip install pillow
This worked for me.
Solution 11 - Python
You need a python image library (PIL), but now PIL only is not enough, you'd better install Pillow. This works well.
Solution 12 - Python
Running the following in a Jupyter Notebook, I had a similar error message:
from skimage import data
photo_data = misc.imread('C:/Users/ers.jpg')
type(photo_data)
'error' msg:
> D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\Shared\Anaconda3_64\lib\site-packages\ipykernel_launcher.py:3:
> DeprecationWarning: imread
is deprecated! imread
is deprecated in
> SciPy 1.0.0, and will be removed in 1.2.0. Use imageio.imread
> instead. This is separate from the ipykernel package so we can avoid
> doing imports until
And using the following I got it solved:
import matplotlib.pyplot
photo_data = matplotlib.pyplot.imread('C:/Users/ers.jpg')
type(photo_data)
Solution 13 - Python
I have all the packages required for the image extraction on jupyter notebook, but even then it shows me the same error.
Reading the above comments, I have installed the required packages. Please do tell if I have missed some packages.
pip3 freeze | grep -i -E "pillow|scipy|scikit-image"
Pillow==5.4.1
scikit-image==0.14.2
scipy==1.2.1
Solution 14 - Python
The solution that work for me in python 3.6 is the following
> py -m pip install Pillow
Solution 15 - Python
The only way I could get the .png
file I'm working with in as uint8
was with OpenCv.
cv2.imread(file)
actually returned numpy.ndarray
with dtype=uint8
Solution 16 - Python
You must first install the Python version compatible with scipy (<3.7). I could not use pip to install scipy version 1.0 [ I think this version is no longer supported on pip] and used conda instead:
conda install -c anaconda scipy==1.0
Then to use "imread" you need to install Pillow.
pip install pillow
Solution 17 - Python
imread is deprecated in scipy.misc; use imageio.imread instead.
imageio provides the same functionality as Scipy. But keep in mind that some arguments need to be changed (for detailed information please check here):
- Instead of
mode
, use thepilmode
keyword argument. - Instead of
flatten
, use theas_gray
keyword argument.
Solution 18 - Python
One way is to use PIL like this:
from PIL import Image
input_image = Image.open(filename)