How to Fix AttributeError: module ‘keras.preprocessing.image’ has no attribute ‘load_img’

AttributeError: module ‘keras.preprocessing.image’ has no attribute ‘load_img’ error occurs when you “try to access ‘load_img’ attribute from ‘keras.preprocessing.image’ module which is deprecated.”

ImportError: cannot import name ‘load_img’ from ‘keras.preprocessing.image'” error is similar to AttributeError also occurs because the keras preprocessing API has been deprecated.

To fix the AttributeError: module ‘keras.preprocessing.image’ has no attribute ‘load_img’ error, “import the load_img function from tensorflow.keras.utils.load_img module.”

Reproducing the error

from keras.preprocessing import load_img

img = load_img(
  'krunal.jpg',
  target_size=(300, 600),
  color_mode="grayscale"
)

img.show()

Output

ImportError: cannot import name 'load_img' from 'keras.preprocessing'

Since the API is deprecated, we got the error.

How to Fix it?

To fix the error, import the library like this: “from tensorflow.keras.utils import load_img”.

from tensorflow.keras.utils import load_img

img = load_img(
  'krunal.jpg',
  target_size=(300, 600),
  color_mode="grayscale"
)

img.show()

Output

Alternate solutions

Solution 1: Upgrade your versions of tensorflow and keras

pip install tensorflow keras --upgrade
pip3 install tensorflow keras --upgrade

# 👇️ for Anaconda
conda install -c conda-forge tensorflow
conda update tensorflow

conda install -c conda-forge keras
conda update keras

# 👇️ for Jupyter Notebook
!pip install tensorflow keras --upgrade

Solution 2: Installation Issue

There could be some issues with your installation of Keras or TensorFlow. Try reinstalling these packages.

I faced a similar issue, and I solved it using the above solutions, and I hope you resolve it too.

Further reading

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AttributeError: module ‘keras.utils’ has no attribute ‘sequence’

AttributeError: module ‘keras.engine’ has no attribute ‘layer’

AttributeError: module ‘keras.utils’ has no attribute ‘get_file’

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