Software Requirements (Module 1)

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2015
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Please install the following applications well in advance of our meeting.

  1. Zotero Firefox Plugin. Zotero is a bibliographic metadata management tool with some nifty features. We'll use it to build corpora from online databases. Be sure to install the plugin for Firefox!
  2. ImageMagick.  This package provides all kinds of nifty tools for working with images. We'll need it work with PDFs later on.
    • OSX: From the terminal, do:
      • brew install imagemagick
    • Ubuntu Linux: From the terminal, do:
      • sudo apt-get install imagemagick
  3. Xpdf. Command-line tools for working with PDFs.
  4. Tesseract OCR. Tesseract is an open source engine for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We'll use this to extract plain-text from PDFs.
    • OSX: From the terminal, do:
      • brew install tesseract --all-languages
    • Ubuntu Linux: see this page.