GRABSEEDS: How to install

GRABSEEDS make heavy use of image manipulation and text recognition libraries and software. Please be patient and install the dependencies listed below.

External dependencies

• ImageMagick
• tesseract-ocr

Python dependencies

• scipy
• matplotlib
• scikit-image
• pypdf2
• wand
• colormath
• xlrd
• xlwt

Most of the Python libraries can be installed using easy_install or pip install, for example:

easy_install wand

Finally, make sure that you install jcvi repository and put the directory on your PYTHONPATH. For example if you want to install it to ~/code, do the following:

$ cd ~/code
$ git clone [email protected]:tanghaibao/jcvi.git
$ export PYTHONPATH=~/code:$PYTHONPATH

To avoid setting PYTHONPATH everytime, please insert the last command in your .bashrc or .bash_profile.