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 Once xlrd is installed, then you can just use ``Pkg.add("ExcelReaders")`` in Julia to install ExcelReaders and its dependencies.
 
+ExcelReaders currently doesn't work on Julia 0.4.
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 ## Alternatives
 
 The [Taro](https://github.com/aviks/Taro.jl) package also provides Excel file reading functionality. The main difference between the two packages (in terms of Excel functionality) is that ExcelReaders uses the Python package [xlrd](https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd) for its processing, whereas Taro uses the Java packages Apache [Tika](http://tika.apache.org/) and Apache [POI](http://poi.apache.org/).