I wasn't able to get camelot working without installing ghostscript in my python environment as well

[sohanglal]

Therefore I added the following command to the documentation : pip install ghostscript
This was despite having ghostscript installed system wide

[bosd]

This extra step, should no be needed. Which version did you try to install?

[DoomedJupiter]

I had a similar issue, not with ghostscript but with other packages, so I'm adding a comment here. I wrote this up as an issue in the previous repo here before realizing this project migrated. I will happily recreate the issue over here if desired @bosd.

[sohanglal]

p camelot.__version__
'1.0.0'

I tried it on 2 operating systems: NixOS and Ubuntu. Both in which ghostscript was installed via the native package manager and camelot-py was installed using uv.

[bosd]

This seems to be a package manager / toml related issue.
I don't think the proposed solution here to update the docs is the proper answer.

Better, to dig a bit deeper to find the root cause of these issues and fix them, instead of this workaround.

It might be related that we switched from poetry to uv.

[DoomedJupiter]

@bosd Did some additional digging on this topic and wrote up an issue. Long story short, looks like adding pillow as a dependency for camelot would resolve this issue. I'm not familiar with the inner workings of the package though, or what poetry/uv is so maybe its something else.

[bosd]

@DoomedJupiter Thanks for the very detailed write-up.
Adding pillow as a dependency seems the way forward.
So closing this one.