---
id: keras-preprocessing
version: "1.1.2"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
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# Keras-Preprocessing — Easy data preprocessing and data augmentation for deep learning models

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 2.3M/mo

## What it is and what it does

Keras Preprocessing was a standalone library for preparing and augmenting data for deep learning models. It provided utilities for image preprocessing and sequence data handling, built on top of numpy and six.

The package is now deprecated and archived. All preprocessing functionality has been moved into the core Keras repository and TensorFlow's pip package. New projects should use the preprocessing layers guide and data loading utilities API in modern Keras instead. This package is maintained only for legacy codebases that have not yet migrated.

Use it for:

- Maintaining legacy deep learning projects built against this standalone package before migration to core Keras
- Understanding historical Keras preprocessing patterns in older codebases
- Prototyping data pipelines in environments where upgrading to modern Keras is not immediately feasible

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides data preprocessing and augmentation utilities for deep learning models, built on numpy and six.

No, unless you are maintaining legacy code. The package is abandoned and archived; all functionality has been integrated into modern Keras and TensorFlow. New projects should use current Keras preprocessing layers instead. For existing codebases still depending on it, plan a migration to avoid future compatibility issues.

## Install

pip install keras-preprocessing
uv add keras-preprocessing
poetry add keras-preprocessing

## Installing Keras-Preprocessing

Before you install: Installation is straightforward with minimal dependencies (numpy and six), but the package is abandoned as of 2020-05-14 and its repository is archived. No maintenance since then.

License in practice: MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.

Quickstart:

pip install Keras-Preprocessing==1.1.2

import keras_preprocessing
from keras_preprocessing import image

Repository is archived and abandoned as of 2020-05-14; no updates or support available.

Verify before relying:

- Whether this package remains compatible with current versions of numpy and six, given abandonment since 2020-05-14
- Whether preprocessing layers in modern Keras are drop-in replacements for all use cases this package supported

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 2.3M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

data preprocessing deep learning, image augmentation keras, sequence data preprocessing, neural network data pipeline, deep learning data utilities, deprecated, legacy

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