ImportError: DLL load failed while importing fugashi: The specified module could not be found.

[jimmyjohnjr1203]

This error came up when ran python -m manga_ocr for the first time, after it downloaded the data.

Here's the full error:

  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\manga_ocr\__main__.py", line 11, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\manga_ocr\__main__.py", line 7, in main
    fire.Fire(run)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\fire\core.py", line 141, in Fire
    component_trace = _Fire(component, args, parsed_flag_args, context, name)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\fire\core.py", line 466, in _Fire
    component, remaining_args = _CallAndUpdateTrace(
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\fire\core.py", line 681, in _CallAndUpdateTrace
    component = fn(*varargs, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\manga_ocr\run.py", line 64, in run
    mocr = MangaOcr(pretrained_model_name_or_path, force_cpu)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\manga_ocr\ocr.py", line 15, in __init__
    self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\transformers\models\auto\tokenization_auto.py", line 514, in from_pretrained
    return tokenizer_class.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, *inputs, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\transformers\tokenization_utils_base.py", line 1773, in from_pretrained
    return cls._from_pretrained(
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\transformers\tokenization_utils_base.py", line 1908, in _from_pretrained
    tokenizer = cls(*init_inputs, **init_kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\transformers\models\bert_japanese\tokenization_bert_japanese.py", line 151, in __init__
    self.word_tokenizer = MecabTokenizer(
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\transformers\models\bert_japanese\tokenization_bert_japanese.py", line 231, in __init__
    import fugashi
  File "C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\fugashi\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .fugashi import *
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing fugashi: The specified module could not be found.```

Also, possibly unrelated, but when I first installed it with pip install manga-ocr it had the following error:

```Installing collected packages: urllib3, pyparsing, idna, colorama, charset-normalizer, certifi, typing-extensions, tqdm, six, requests, regex, pyyaml, packaging, joblib, filelock, click, win32-setctime, tokenizers, termcolor, sacremoses, numpy, huggingface-hub, unidic-lite, transformers, torch, pyperclip, Pillow, loguru, jaconv, fugashi, fire, manga-ocr
  WARNING: The script normalizer.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
  WARNING: The script tqdm.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
    Running setup.py install for termcolor ... done
  WARNING: The script sacremoses.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
  WARNING: The script f2py.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
  WARNING: The script huggingface-cli.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
    Running setup.py install for unidic-lite ... done
  WARNING: The script transformers-cli.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\Lubbs\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\Lubbs\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\LocalCache\\local-packages\\Python38\\site-packages\\caffe2\\python\\serialized_test\\data\\operator_test\\piecewise_linear_transform_test.test_multi_predictions_params_from_arg.zip'```

but I tried it again and it installed successfully.

[jimmyjohnjr1203]

Forgot to mention this is on a fresh (no other modules) windows store installation of python 3.8

[kha-white]

This is related to this issue: polm/fugashi#33

I think it happens only on Python installed from Windows Store, so you might try getting Python from official site instead: https://www.python.org/downloads/ (just remember to get version other than Python 3.10, as it doesn't support Pytorch yet).

[jimmyjohnjr1203]

Thanks for the response, yes downloading from the official python website worked. I probably should have guessed that but thanks anyway.