ImportError: Textractor pipeline is not available - install "pipeline" extra to enable

[berkgungor]

When i run the code block below, it gives error :

from txtai.pipeline import Textractor
textractor = Textractor()

ImportError: Textractor pipeline is not available - install "pipeline" extra to enable

Note : pip install txtai[pipeline] did not work

[davidmezzetti]

What environment are you running on? I would rebuild your virtual environment and reinstall with pip install txtai[pipeline]

[Lanznx]

@berkgungor are you trying to run the colab script from here ?

if you are running on MacOS with zsh, then you might need to change the command from !pip install git+https://github.com/neuml/txtai#egg=txtai[pipeline]

to !pip install 'git+https://github.com/neuml/txtai#egg=txtai[pipeline]'

The error message you're encountering in the Z shell (zsh) is likely due to the way zsh handles square brackets. In zsh, square brackets are used for pattern matching, and when they appear in a command, zsh tries to match them to file names. If it doesn't find any matching files, you get the no matches found error.

[berkgungor]

@davidmezzetti i run the code in my venv that i use for all other llm projects so rebuilding is not the best option for me, but it works in colab. I think one of the llm libraries such as transformers, langhchain etc. might affect txtai.

@Lanznx i am on a windows cuda env.

[davidmezzetti]

Following up on this, Apache Tika is a Java library and requires Java to be installed.

If you install Java, does this solve the issue? I will update the FAQ and error message once confirmed.

[davidmezzetti]

Thank you @Lanznx, after researching this further, I believe escaping the brackets is the solution for both macOS zsh and anyone using Windows Powershell.

[genki-aik]

Manually installing 3 packages worked for me (on Windows):
pip install beautifulsoup4 tika nltk

These are used in textractor.py and segmentation.py