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I don't understand what this error 'Failed building wheel for Pillow' means? I just wanted to install easyocr, but it gives me an error, I tried to find a solution to the problem on the Internet but could not find it. Help me solve this problem, I will be very grateful

pip install easyocr
Christoph Rackwitz
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  • this has nothing to do with opencv. I've removed that tag. do not apply tags that have no relation to the issue. – Christoph Rackwitz Apr 04 '22 at 11:57
  • Building a wheel is python-speak for compiling the code from form source code in C. Did you install the required compiler? My strong recommendation is to use conda to install Python on a Windows machine. conda will install and configure the compiler for you automatically, resulting is much simplified configuration, and successful pip installs. – joanis Apr 04 '22 at 14:50
  • Did you try running `pip install pillow`? Also, what is your OS architecture? Is it 32 bit or 64 bit? Assuming it is 64 bit, please check if you have installed 64 bit version of Python. – Arjun Panicker Apr 06 '22 at 04:12
  • @Arjun Panicker Yes, I have the 64-bit version of Python installed. – il16ya Apr 09 '22 at 06:47

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Try doing pip install -U pip

This will upgrade the version of pip in your system. Sometimes, the latest version of a python package that you are trying to install is not compatible with the pip version installed in the system.

The above command will update your pip and once that is done, you can try running the command pip install easyocr once again.

Let me know if this helped!!

If this did not help, please let me know whether you are on a windows machine or a linux machine.

If you are on an Ubuntu machine then you probably have to redo the steps that I mentioned using pip3 instead of pip.

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