diff --git a/Dockerfile.tmpl b/Dockerfile.tmpl
index 5f0815bd..15fffc47 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.tmpl
+++ b/Dockerfile.tmpl
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ RUN pip install flashtext && \
     pip install ipympl==0.7.0 && \
     pip install pandarallel && \
     pip install onnx && \
+    pip install tables && \
     /tmp/clean-layer.sh
 
 # Download base easyocr models.
diff --git a/test_pytables.py b/test_pytables.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..20ec0b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_pytables.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import unittest
+
+import pandas as pd
+from pandas.testing import assert_frame_equal
+
+
+class TestPandasPytables(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_rw_hd5(self):
+        want = pd.DataFrame([[1, 1.0, 'a']], columns=['x', 'y', 'z'])
+        want.to_hdf('./want.h5', 'data')
+        got = pd.read_hdf('./want.h5')
+        assert_frame_equal(want, got)