protoc object_detection/protos/*.proto: No such file or directory

Question

I am following the example found here. But whenever I enter the command \"C:/Program Files/protoc/bin/protoc\" object_detection/protos/.proto --python_out=. I get an e

Answer 1

If it turns out you you're missing the whole models/research/object_detection/protos sub-tree like me, you can download it separately from https://github.com/tensorflow/models. Not having these files will give the same error, i.e. No such file or directory.