Openalpr: error: package directory 'openalpr' does not exist

Created on 2 May 2019 · 3Comments · Source: openalpr/openalpr

Hi,

After downloading 2.3.0 of github and running python\setup.py install, I get the following error. I searched/read many articles trying to this working and would appreciate some help.

(licenseplate) C:\Users\somone\Downloads\openalpr-2.3.0-win-64bit\openalpr_64\python>python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
error: package directory 'openalpr' does not exist

I'm on windows 10, anaconda, python 3.6.2 64-bit

Thank you.

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warpdriv

Most helpful comment

It allows to import openalpr in Python but for me it generates the next error:

OSError: Unable to locate the OpenALPR library. Please make sure that OpenALPR is properly installed on your system and that the libraries are in the appropriate paths. Exception ignored in: <bound method Alpr.__del__ of <openalpr.openalpr.Alpr object at 0x000001571BE136D8>>

and:
AttributeError: 'Alpr' object has no attribute 'loaded'

juskuz on 6 Nov 2019

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I'm not familiar with anaconda but I got it working with just Python on Windows:

add the openalpr_64 directory to the path (I put it in the user variables Path, from your example you should add C:\Users\somone\Downloads\openalpr-2.3.0-win-64bit\openalpr_64)
restart the computer
download the source code as a zip from https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr/releases
unzip it somewhere
run the same python setup.py install command but this time from openalpr-2.3.0\src\bindings\python it should work this time
Now you should be able to use openalpr with python.