Not able to import camelot in Python 3.7(Anaconda) in MacOS Catalina

Question

My environment specs

• python --version

  Python 3.7.6

• anaconda --version

  anaconda Command line client (version 1.7.2)

• sw_vers

  ProductName: Mac OS X

  ProductVersion: 10.15.2

  BuildVersion: 19C57

I installed camelot from conda-forge using the command below.

conda install -c conda-forge camelot-py

Attaching the logs when I try to import camelot for pdf parsing and text extraction purposes.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/~/PycharmProjects/Utilities/rosblancos/pdf-utilities/pdf-element-extractor.py", line 1, in <module>
    import camelot
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .io import read_pdf
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/io.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .handlers import PDFHandler
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/handlers.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .parsers import Stream, Lattice
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/parsers/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .lattice import Lattice
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/parsers/lattice.py", line 27, in <module>
    from ..image_processing import (
  File "/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/camelot/image_processing.py", line 5, in <module>
    import cv2
ImportError: dlopen(/~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cv2.cpython-37m-darwin.so, 2): Library not loaded: @rpath/libglib-2.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /~/.conda/envs/Utilities/lib/libharfbuzz.0.dylib
  Reason: Incompatible library version: libharfbuzz.0.dylib requires version 5601.0.0 or later, but libglib-2.0.0.dylib provides version 0.0.0

Process finished with exit code 1

I googled the error above and found this issue. However, I am unable to solve this issue as I am not able to find out what I need to do with the file named libglib.

Answer 1

Doing this worked for me:

pip install opencv-python