diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2d9cbafb..b0fea69e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ more-browser-options = [
 screenshot_scraper = [
     "surya-ocr>=0.5.0; python_version >= '3.10'",
     "matplotlib>=3.7.2; python_version >= '3.10'",
-    "ipywidgets>=8.1.0; python_version >= '3.10'"
+    "ipywidgets>=8.1.0; python_version >= '3.10'",
+    "pillow>=10.4.0",
 ]
 
 [build-system]
diff --git a/requirements-dev.lock b/requirements-dev.lock
index 3105432b..3aab21a2 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.lock
+++ b/requirements-dev.lock
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ idna==3.7
     # via yarl
 imagesize==1.4.1
     # via sphinx
+importlib-metadata==8.4.0
+    # via sphinx
+importlib-resources==6.4.4
+    # via matplotlib
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
 isort==5.13.2
@@ -450,8 +454,10 @@ typing-extensions==4.12.2
     # via pydantic
     # via pydantic-core
     # via pyee
+    # via pylint
     # via sf-hamilton
     # via sqlalchemy
+    # via starlette
     # via streamlit
     # via typing-inspect
     # via uvicorn
@@ -471,3 +477,6 @@ uvicorn==0.30.5
     # via burr
 yarl==1.9.4
     # via aiohttp
+zipp==3.20.1
+    # via importlib-metadata
+    # via importlib-resources
diff --git a/scrapegraphai/utils/screenshot_scraping/screenshot_preparation.py b/scrapegraphai/utils/screenshot_scraping/screenshot_preparation.py
index 10a5256a..6bbc562f 100644
--- a/scrapegraphai/utils/screenshot_scraping/screenshot_preparation.py
+++ b/scrapegraphai/utils/screenshot_scraping/screenshot_preparation.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 """
 import asyncio
 from io import BytesIO
-from PIL import Image, ImageGrab
 from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
 import numpy as np
 from io import BytesIO
@@ -18,6 +17,10 @@ async def take_screenshot(url: str, save_path: str = None, quality: int = 100):
     Returns:
         PIL.Image: The screenshot of the webpage as a PIL Image object.
     """
+    try:
+        from PIL import Image
+    except:
+        raise ImportError("The dependencies for screenshot scraping are not installed. Please install them using `pip install scrapegraphai[screenshot_scraper]`.")
 
     async with async_playwright() as p:
         browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
@@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ def select_area_with_opencv(image):
 
     try:
         import cv2 as cv
+        from PIL import ImageGrab
     except ImportError:
         raise ImportError("The dependencies for screenshot scraping are not installed. Please install them using `pip install scrapegraphai[screenshot_scraper]`.")