Can't find 'Image' after installing Pillow?

Question

Playing with PDF and images in my virtualenv, and I installed pdfminer-six, pypdf2, pytesseract and pdf2image with pip:

$python3 -m venv testenv
$source testenv/bin/activate
$pip3 install pdfminer-six 
$pip3 install pypdf2 
$pip3 install pdf2image 
$pip3 install pytesseract

but then I ran into these importing errors:

$python3

>>> import pytesseract
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 22, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 94, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .pytesseract import (  # noqa: F401
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 24, in <module>
    import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'

and

>>> from pdf2image import convert_from_path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pdf2image/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .pdf2image import (
  File "/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pdf2image/pdf2image.py", line 14, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
  File "/home/chengx/pdf_text/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 94, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL' (/home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py)

(That said, from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader worked well though.)

I then have Pillow installed via pip too:

$python3 -m pip install Pillow

as an attempt to fix the issue, but the import errors didn't go away. Any reason why imaging is still missing? Thank you!

I'm on CentOS8, and this is my current setup:

(testenv) [~/test_dir] python --version
Python 3.7.5+
(testenv) [~/test_dir] pip -V
pip 20.2.3 from /home/userx/test_dir/testenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)
(testenv) [~/test_dir] pip list
Package          Version
---------------- --------
cffi             1.14.3
chardet          3.0.4
cryptography     3.1.1
pdf2image        1.14.0
pdfminer.six     20200726
Pillow           7.2.0
pip              20.2.3
pycparser        2.20
PyPDF2           1.26.0
pytesseract      0.3.6
setuptools       41.2.0
six              1.15.0
sortedcontainers 2.2.2

it would really help reproduce the issue if you could share at least the imports section of your script as a snippet clearly. — Tibebes. M, Sep 23 '20 at 19:07
Please show the exact code you run and the exact command you use to run it. — Mark Setchell, Sep 23 '20 at 19:23
Please show a Python example that causes this error. This shouldn't be your entire project. Just make a new .py file with a few lines to reproduce the problem. — Code-Apprentice, Sep 23 '20 at 19:34
I suggest you google the error to see if someone has already found a solution. For example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25340698/importerror-cannot-import-name-imaging — Code-Apprentice, Sep 23 '20 at 19:35
lol, the import itself is errorr'ing out, what more example code do you need? — xiaolong, Sep 23 '20 at 19:37
I tried to reproduce it in python 3.8 to no avail. I suspect it's an issue with Pillow's installation. please try `pip3 install -U Pillow` (with `-U`) in the environment and test it again — Tibebes. M, Sep 23 '20 at 20:06
Why do you run `python --version` when you are running `python3` everywhere else? — Mark Setchell, Sep 23 '20 at 21:03

Can't find 'Image' after installing Pillow?

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