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'

which version of scipy are you using? scipy.__version__ gives 0.9.0 for me and i cannot reproduce your problem — hannes
– hannes, Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 18:27
do you get the same error if you do from scipy.misc import imread, and then imread('test.tif') ? — karthikr
– karthikr, Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 18:27
I think this function depends on PIL (pythonware.com/products/pil) being installed. Do you have PIL? — Wilduck
– Wilduck, Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 18:32
imread was deprecated in SciPy 1.0.0, and is removed in 1.2.0. Use imageio.imread instead. — Manas
– Manas, Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 14:30

Keith Prussing · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 18:29:14Z

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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])

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answered Dec 18, 2017 at 9:43

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Stefan Over a year ago

SciPy's imread used to return a numpy.ndarray. imageio.imread returns imageio.core.util.Array. If you want/need a numpy.ndarray and don't want to convert it, use matplotlib.pyplot.imread, as it also returns a numpy.ndarray.

saichand Over a year ago

I have a similar problem here, but with respect to imresize. Previously, scipy.misc.imresize works. Now it is deprecated and where will I get an alternative for this?

filip Over a year ago

It's a joke @saichand

saichand Over a year ago

@filip, I tried using the scipy.misc.imresize. It doesn't work now, but I had used it sometime back. I wish You could correct me if what I said had any mistakes in that comment rather than saying it as a joke. I am open to learning from my mistakes. What is wrong in my comment? Thank you.

Caranown Over a year ago

When writing your own code, use the newer alternatives. But when trying to run some code you know little about, it's easier to install an old scipy version, e.g. in conda conda install scipy==1.2.1. There seems to be no drop-in replacement for both imread and imresize.

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Wilduck · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-11 14:43:53Z

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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>

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answered Mar 11, 2013 at 18:34

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Allan Ruin Over a year ago

Orz, but if I install PIL, then it will give me <PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile...

Yuchen Over a year ago

It should be Pillow instead of PIL now. Reference: pillow.readthedocs.org

Terry Brown Over a year ago

READ THE NEXT ANSWER (@Shadab's answer) as well, and note that it's just imageio, not scipy.imageio.

Nikhil Gupta Over a year ago

Note that this does not work with the latest version of SciPy (1.3.0). The solution from Shadab works.

Pieter Meiresone Over a year ago

Outdated answer for any recent SciPy version (>= 1.2).

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mahbubcseju · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-24 09:05:20Z

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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

answered May 24, 2019 at 9:05

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Terry Brown Over a year ago

See @Shadab's answer, it's in imageio now.

Caranown Over a year ago

It is removed starting 1.3.0, so the latest to install is at least 1.2.1

Pieter Meiresone Over a year ago

Removing and installing an older version is not a solution.

MasterJedi · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-31 10:47:40Z

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For Python 3, it is best to use imread in matplotlib.pyplot:

from matplotlib.pyplot import imread

answered Mar 31, 2018 at 10:47

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Lucas Over a year ago

No, its not. MatPlotlib converts to float. cv2.imread() correctly preserves the dtype of the image.

SuperNova · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-26 05:08:20Z

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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

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r.a.shehni Over a year ago

as @Pieter Meiresone removing and installing an older version is not a solution.It is may be conflict with other package that have dependency on scipy.

kshitij_p · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-20 12:36:36Z

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.

imageio works, but cv2 cause error : libpng warning: Invalid image height in IHDR

Josh Hansen · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-11 00:53:35Z

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.

Steve · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-24 14:29:56Z

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.

desertnaut · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-25 20:16:05Z

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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

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ElleryL Over a year ago

this works for me ! though I don't understand why my professor use "from scipy.misc import imread" and it doesn't work on my laptop

Pang · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 00:58:57Z

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python -m pip install pillow

This worked for me.

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Mottie · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-11 14:26:56Z

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You need a python image library (PIL), but now PIL only is not enough, you'd better install Pillow. This works well.

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lrnzcig Over a year ago

There's a comment on the accepted answer already stating that pillow should be used instead of PIL. I don't think it's a bad idea to add it as an answer, but it would be by far more useful if you explained why. Thanks.

Mike · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-01 09:53:20Z

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)

It doesn't related to the question. It is a different problem and answer.

roschach · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-25 13:46:44Z

I have all the packages required for the image extraction on jupyter notebook, but even then it shows me the same error.

Error on Jupyter Notebook

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

Jorge Santos Neill · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-17 05:09:57Z

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The solution that work for me in python 3.6 is the following

py -m pip install Pillow

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Lucas · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-04 23:11:54Z

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

Mohsen Navazani · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-07 20:24:36Z

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

ziyi liu · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-04 18:49:58Z

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 the pilmode keyword argument.
Instead of flatten, use the as_gray keyword argument.

Arash · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-12 21:18:22Z

One way is to use PIL like this:

 from PIL import Image input_image = Image.open(filename)

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