We recommend cross-compiling the TensorFlow Raspbian package. Cross-compilation is using a different platform to build the package than deploy to. Instead of using the Raspberry Pi's limited RAM and comparatively slow processor, it's easier to build TensorFlow on a more powerful host machine running Linux, macOS, or Windows. You can see detailed instructions here.
To quickly start executing TensorFlow Lite models with Python, you can install just the TensorFlow Lite interpreter, instead of all TensorFlow packages.
This interpreter-only package is a fraction the size of the full TensorFlow package and includes the bare minimum code required to run inferences with TensorFlow Lite—it includes only the tf.lite.Interpreter Python class. This small package is ideal when all you want to do is execute .tflite models and avoid wasting disk space with the large TensorFlow library.
To install just the interpreter, download the appropriate Python wheel for your system from the following link, and then install it with the pip install command.
For example, if you're setting up a Raspberry Pi Model B (using Raspbian Stretch, which has Python 3.5), install the Python wheel as follows (after you click to download the .whl file in the provided link):
pip install tflite_runtime-1.14.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_armv7l.whl
So instead of importing Interpreter from the tensorflow module, you need to import it from tflite_runtime.
from tflite_runtime.interpreter import Interpreter
In case you have built TensorFlow from source, you need to import the Interpreter as follows:
from tensorflow.lite.python.interpreter import Interpreter
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