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1. Download the latest version of Python (3.6 or higher) from https://www.python.org/downloads/
2. Install Python with the default options (add to PATH should be enabled and pip should be installed)
3. Open a command prompt or PowerShell. Note that to run an external executable in PowerShell such as Python or pip the command needs to be prefixed with `&`.
4. Ensure Python and pip are correctly installed by running the commands `python --version` and `pip --version`. These commands should print the version numbers of python and pip, if they do not follow the guide at https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/.
3. Open a command prompt or PowerShell from the start menu. Alternatively you can hold down the shift key and right click in windows explorer, the right click menu will show an option to `open command prompt here` or `open PowerShell window here`.
4. Ensure Python and pip are correctly installed by running the commands `python --version` and `pip --version`. These commands should print the version numbers of python and pip, if they do not follow the guide at https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/. Note that to run an external executable in PowerShell such as Python or pip the command needs to be prefixed with `&`. For example checking the python version would be `& python --version` instead of `python --version`.
5. Run the command `pip install 'pdfminer3k'` to install the pdfminer library.
6. Download a [zip](https://github.com/ianknowles/EarTimeWrangler/archive/master.zip) of this repository and extract to a local folder.
7. Place input files in the `data` folder, split into subfolders for each department.
8. Open a command prompt or PowerShell in the `src` folder or use the `cd` command to set the current directory to the `src` folder.
8. Open a command prompt or PowerShell in the `src` folder. In windows explorer navigate to the `src` folder, hold shift, right click the mouse and select the option to open command prompt or powershell here. Or use the `cd` command to set the current directory to the `src` folder if you are familiar with the command line.
9. Run the command `python wrangler.py` (prefix with `&` in PowerShell).
10. The outputs should now be found in the `output` folder, an sqlite database and csv formatted tables exported from the database.

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