Appendix A - Installation of Dependencies

We learned to manipulate PDF documents using many Python libraries. We already took care of the installations of these libraries and other dependencies on the platform. If you’d like to make a local setup on your computer, you may follow the steps listed below. It would be helpful to familiarize yourself with basic Python administrative tasks, such as making a Python virtual environment. Please also note that the following installations are primarily for Linux-based computers.

The application skeleton

First and foremost, you need to make sure that Python3 is installed on your system.

• Create a folder for hosting the project called MyPDFToolbox.

• Create a virtual environment and activate it.

• Create a file named requirements.txt and add to it the libraries pertinent to each section. You may copy the following content to install all the libraries:

PyPDF4==1.27.0
Pikepdf==3.0.0 
reportlab==3.5.59
PyMuPDF==1.18.19 
filetype==1.0.7
Pillow==8.0.1
distro==1.6.0
tabula-py==2.3.0
PDFNetPython3==8.1.0
python-docx==0.8.11
python-pptx==0.6.21
pdf2docx==0.5.2
pandas==1.1.4
pytesseract==0.3.7
pyOpenSSL==20.0.1
Borb==2.0.11
scikit-image==0.18.3
imutils==0.5.4

• Install the needed libraries to the project:

pip install –r requirements.txt