Unable to install on windows... wtf is 'source'?

[enjoysmath]

The virtualenv/ stuff seems to instlall, but wtf is 'source'? as in:

source ocropus_venv/bin/activate

Can't do it! Can't find it - try finding something called source on google. Can't be done. wtf, over....

[elgehelge]

'source' is used when activating a virtual environment. On windows i think you have to run a 'bat' file instead.

[dubielt1]

I was able to successfully install, with a little googling.

Just download Python, add it to your path, then use pip install for each requirement, in order. So requirements1.txt then requirements2.txt.

For Numpy and SciPy, use these wheel packages here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy

So for those two, cd into the directory where you downloaded them, then type pip install numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl for example. The benefit of those packages is this: "Numpy+MKL is linked to the Intel® Math Kernel Library and includes required DLLs in the numpy.core directory"

pip install numpy/scipy failed for me on windows, it has something to do with that Intel library

[zuphilip]

Alternatively you can use the docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/kbai/ocropy/ resp. https://github.com/kba/docker-ocropy

[zuphilip]

(FAQ links now here.)

[karelin]

One more recommendation is to use Anaconda - the scientific Python distribution, which already contains all necessary libraries, though numpy/scipy will be without MKL (in free version).