plagdef

PlagDef

A tool which makes life hard for students who try to make theirs simple.

Installation

Get it from PyPI:

$ pip install plagdef

Or build it yourself:

$ git clone git://github.com/devWhyqueue/plagdef
$ poetry build
$ pip install dist/plagdef-{VERSION}.tar.gz

Requirements

Chrome

PlagDef uses Selenium to automate the translation of documents. By default, it uses a headless version of Chrome.

OCRMyPDF

This library is used for improved PDF text extraction.
To install its necessary dependencies for your operating system take a look at:
https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

And don't forget to download the German language pack to your tessdata folder from here:
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata

Libmagic

After (important!) you installed PlagDef, install the libmagic library.
PlagDef uses it to detect character encodings.
Further instructions can be found here:
https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic#installation

Usage

Run the GUI:

$ plagdef-gui

Or if you prefer a CLI:

$ plagdef -h

Development

Clone the repo and install dependencies:

$ git clone git://github.com/devWhyqueue/plagdef
$ poetry install

Publish to PyPI

In your virtual environment build and upload PlagDef:

$ poetry publish --build