# Error while converting tf model to onnx

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**Created:** [August 30, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/error-while-converting-tf-model-to-onnx/9577 "2021-08-30T00:03:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/error-while-converting-tf-model-to-onnx/9577/1 "2021-08-30T00:03:37Z")

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when I try to convert bert-base-multilingual-cased tensorflow model to onnx i get the following error:

ValueError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

python convert\_graph\_to\_onnx.py --framework tf --model bert-base-multilingual-cased /test\_folder/model.onnx

model link:

> **[bert-base-multilingual-cased at main](https://huggingface.co/bert-base-multilingual-cased/tree/main)**
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