'Missing required flag: input_file' when using TOCO with SavedModel

[snewi]

• Have I written custom code (as opposed to using a stock example script provided in TensorFlow): NO
• OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04): MacOS 10.12.6
• TensorFlow installed from (source or binary): Binary
• TensorFlow version (use command below): 1.7
• Python version: 3.6
• Bazel version (if compiling from source): n/a
• GCC/Compiler version (if compiling from source): n/a
• CUDA/cuDNN version: n/a
• GPU model and memory: n/a
• Exact command to reproduce: toco --savedmodel_directory=/Models/Final/1523530083 --output_file=move.tflite

Describe the problem

I have a SavedModel trained and I am trying to use TOCO to convert it to tflite format. When I use the above command, given as an example in the docs here I get prompted for the input_format. Specifying this as TENSORFLOW_GRAPHDEF gives a new error for output_format. Specifying this as TFLITE now prompts for required parameter input_file. As this is a SavedModel and not a GraphDef, I can't provide the input_file and in fact, shouldn't have to as savedmodel_directory has already been provided.

The model directory 1523530083 contains saved_model.pb and a variables folder. There are no assets.

[gargn]

The issue is likely that the version of TensorFlow you are using does not have SavedModel support. Try and build with the latest version of TensorFlow.

Instructions are available here: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_sources.

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[snewi]

I've updated to 1.8 and now rather than throwing an exception you get:

TOCO from pip install is currently not working on command line.
Please use the python TOCO API or use

Closing out issue.

[kris2677]

There was some issue in version 1.8 and it did not install TOCO. After updating to version 1.10 it installed TOCO and also following error got resolved.
Missing required flag: input_file

[jvcodes]

after updating to tensorflow from 17 to 1.10 (!pip install --upgrade "tensorflow==1.10.*") its resolved my issue