Imageio Pillow plugin requires Pillow lib

Question

Instead of:

scipy.misc.imsave(category + '/' + str(i) + '.jpg', image) 

I am using:

imageio.imwrite(category + '/' + str(i) + '.jpg', image)

And it's giving me the following error:

error in image: 6078 - Imageio Pillow plugin requires Pillow lib.

Pillow is installed

What should I look into?

Answer 1

I believe this could happen due to one of these reasons:

• You have two versions of python
• You are using a virtual environment created with conda and you're installing imageio using pip.

Either way, you can follow these steps to solve your issue:

• Create a conda virtual environment. The following command will create a virtual environment called env:

conda create -n env

• Activate the virtual environment using:

conda activate env

• Install imageio using:

conda install -c anaconda pillow