* Install the following system dependencies if they are not already available on your system. Depending on what document types you're parsing, you may not need all of these.
*``libmagic-dev`` (filetype detection)
*``poppler-utils`` (images and PDFs)
*``tesseract-ocr`` (images and PDFs)
*``libreoffice`` (MS Office docs)
* If you are parsing PDFs, run the following to install the ``detectron2`` model, which ``unstructured`` uses for layout detection:
You can install and run ``unstructured`` on Windows with ``conda``, but the process
involves a few extra steps. This section will help you get up and running.
* Install `Anaconda <https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/windows.html>`_ on your Windows machine.
* Install Microsoft C++ Build Tools using the instructions in `this Stackoverflow post <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64261546/how-to-solve-error-microsoft-visual-c-14-0-or-greater-is-required-when-inst>`_. C++ build tools are required for the ``pycocotools`` dependency.
* Run ``conda env create -f environment.yml`` using the ``environment.yml`` file in the ``unstructured`` repo to create a virtual environment. The environment will be named ``unstructured``.
* Run ``conda activate unstructured`` to activate the virtualenvironment.
* Run ``pip install unstructured`` to install the ``unstructured`` library.
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Setting up ``unstructured`` for local inference
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If you need to run model inferences locally, there are a few additional steps you need to
take. The main challenge is installing ``detectron2`` for PDF layout parsing. ``detectron2``
does not officially support Windows, but it is possible to get it to install on Windows.
The installation instructions are based on the instructions LayoutParser provides
* Run ``pip install pycocotools-windows`` to install a Windows compatible version of ``pycocotools``. Alternatively, you can run ``pip3 install "git+https://github.com/philferriere/cocoapi.git#egg=pycocotools&subdirectory=PythonAPI"`` as outlined in `this GitHub issue <https://github.com/cocodataset/cocoapi/issues/169#issuecomment-462528628>`_.
* Run ``git clone https://github.com/ivanpp/detectron2.git``, then ``cd detectron2``, then ``pip install -e .`` to install a Windows compatible version of the ``detectron2`` library.
* Install the a Windows compatible version of ``iopath`` using the instructions outlined in `this GitHub issue <https://github.com/Layout-Parser/layout-parser/issues/15#issuecomment-819546751>`_. First, run ``git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/iopath --single-branch --branch v0.1.8``. Then on line 753 in ``iopath/iopath/common/file_io.py`` change ``filename = path.split("/")[-1]`` to ``filename = parsed_url.path.split("/")[-1]``. After that, navigate to the ``iopath`` directory and run ``pip install -e .``.
* Run ``pip install unstructured[local-inference]``. This will install the ``unstructured_inference`` dependency.
At this point, you can verify the installation by running the following from the root directory of the ``unstructured```repo <https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured>`_:
..code:: python
from unstructured.partition.pdf import partition_pdf
PaddleOCR is another package that is helpful to use in conjunction with ``unstructured``.
You can use the following steps to install ``paddleocr`` in your ``unstructured````conda``
environment.
* Run ``conda install -c esri paddleocr``
* If you have the Windows version of ``detectron2`` cloned and installed locally, change the name of ``detectron2/tools`` to ``detectron2/detectron2_tools``. Otherwise, you will hit the module name conflict error described in `this issue <https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues/1024>`_.
* Set the environment variable ``KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK`` to ``"TRUE"``. This prevents the ``libiomp5md.dll`` linking issue described `in this issue on GitHub <https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues/4613>`_.
At this point, you can verify the installation using the following commands. Choose a