Pillow and JPEG2000: decoder jpeg2k not available

Question

I\'m trying to set up Flask-IIIF to work with jp2-files, or JPEG2000. Right out of the box I get an error from the Pillow library: IOError: decoder jpeg2k

Answer 1

for linux

sudo yum install -y libjpeg-devel
sudo pip uninstall pillow
sudo pip install pillow

for windows

# download
import imageio
imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()

# install
pip uninstall pillow
pip install pillow