title: Object detection - ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found
body: <p><strong>Issue in Tensorflow Object Detection model models</strong></p>
  
  <p>From this installation guide : <a href="https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/installation.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/installation.md</a></p>
  
  <p>i started my installation </p>
  
  <pre><code>pip install --user Cython
  
  pip install --user contextlib2
  
  pip install --user pillow
  
  pip install --user lxml
  
  pip install --user jupyter
  
  pip install --user matplotlib
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>COCO API installation:
  copied - "<strong>pycocotools</strong>"  to <strong>"/models/research/"</strong></p>
  
  <p>From tensorflow/models/research/ i ran below command</p>
  
  <pre><code>protoc object_detection/protos/*.proto --python_out=.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Added Libraries to PYTHONPATH (using Set since i am on windows)</p>
  
  <pre><code>set PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`:`pwd`/slim
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Testing the Installation : </p>
  
  <pre><code>python object_detection/builders/model_builder_test.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>error :</p>
  
  <p><strong>ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  Failed to load the native TensorFlow runtime.
  See <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/install/errors" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.tensorflow.org/install/errors</a>
  for some common reasons and solutions.  Include the entire stack trace
  above this error message when asking for help.</strong></p>