Installation¶

Kreuzberg is a modular document intelligence framework with a core package and optional components for specialized functionality.

System Dependencies¶

Pandoc¶

Pandoc is the foundation of Kreuzberg's universal document conversion capabilities. This required system dependency enables reliable extraction across diverse document formats. Install Pandoc for your platform:

Ubuntu/Debian¶

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sudo apt-get install pandoc

macOS¶

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brew install pandoc

Windows¶

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choco install -y pandoc

Kreuzberg Core Package¶

The Kreuzberg core package can be installed using pip with:

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pip install kreuzberg

Optional Features¶

OCR¶

OCR is an optional feature for extracting text from images and non-searchable PDFs. Kreuzberg supports multiple OCR backends. To understand the differences between these backends, please read the OCR Backends documentation.

Tesseract OCR¶

Tesseract OCR is built into Kreuzberg and doesn't require additional Python packages. However, you must install Tesseract 5.0 or higher on your system:

Ubuntu/Debian¶

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sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

macOS¶

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brew install tesseract

Windows¶

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choco install -y tesseract

EasyOCR¶

EasyOCR is a Python-based OCR backend with wide language support and strong performance.

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pip install "kreuzberg[easyocr]"

PaddleOCR¶

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pip install "kreuzberg[paddleocr]"

Chunking¶

Chunking is an optional feature - useful for RAG applications among others. Kreuzberg uses the excellent semantic-text-splitter package for chunking. To install Kreuzberg with chunking support, you can use:

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pip install "kreuzberg[chunking]"

Table Extraction¶

Table extraction is an optional feature that allows Kreuzberg to extract tables from PDFs. It uses the GMFT package. To install Kreuzberg with table extraction support, you can use:

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pip install "kreuzberg[gmft]"

Language Detection¶

Language detection is an optional feature that automatically detects the language of extracted text. It uses the fast-langdetect package. To install Kreuzberg with language detection support, you can use:

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pip install "kreuzberg[langdetect]"

Entity and Keyword Extraction¶

Entity and keyword extraction are optional features that extract named entities and keywords from documents. Entity extraction uses spaCy for multilingual named entity recognition, while keyword extraction uses KeyBERT for semantic keyword extraction:

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pip install "kreuzberg[entity-extraction]"

After installation, you'll need to download the spaCy language models you plan to use:

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# Download English model (most common)
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

# Download other language models as needed
python -m spacy download de_core_news_sm  # German
python -m spacy download fr_core_news_sm  # French
python -m spacy download es_core_news_sm  # Spanish

All Optional Dependencies¶

To install Kreuzberg with all optional dependencies, you can use the all extra group:

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pip install "kreuzberg[all]"

This is equivalent to:

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pip install "kreuzberg[chunking,easyocr,entity-extraction,gmft,langdetect,paddleocr]"