Installation

Installation (for Debian-based systems)

This page will guide you through the installation process using a the provided Makefile. You can build various modules of the project using this Makefile. We chose to use GNU Make because the project is not vanilla Python and make is target-agnostic.

Installing main module (core functionality)

To install the main module including:

1. Core modules
2. MongoDB Integration
3. Web Application
4. NLP Toolkit

use the following command (with sudo):

make core

If you want to build the full codifier pipeline:

Export the CODIFIER_DATA environment variable:

export CODIFIER_DATA=/home/to/codifier/texts

And run make:

make codifier_pipeline

If you want to run the web application:

make run_web_application

Installing scripts

Installing the scripts includes:

1. Tesseract 4.0
2. pyocr
3. pdfminer.six
4. Chromedriver w. selenium

To install the scripts (with sudo):

make scripts

To schedule cron jobs:

make schedule_cronjobs

If you want to install both (core and scripts) you can type (with sudo):

make all