markus_exam_matcher 0.2.0

A package for matching students to test papers in MarkUs

MarkUs Exam Matcher

Installation

It is recommended to use a virtual environment to install this package, as it contains many pinned runtime dependencies.

Production Installation (Recommended)

To install the production version of the package, run the following command in the console:

$ pip install markus-exam-matcher --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

Latest Development Installation

To install the latest development version of the package, run the following command in the console:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/MarkUsProject/markus-exam-matcher.git --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

Branch Installation

To install the version specified by a particular branch (when permissions are granted), run the following command in the console:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/MarkUsProject/markus-exam-matcher.git@branch_name --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

Commit Hash Installation

To install the version specified by a specific commit, the commit hash can be used by running the following command in the console:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/MarkUsProject/markus-exam-matcher.git@commit_hash --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

Usage

This package works under the assumption that the characters to be detected are surrounded by boxes that are placed side-by-side. An example image with this format is displayed below:

Below is a sample usage that generates a prediction from the file shown above.

$ python3 -m markus_exam_matcher --char_type digit char examples/student_info_num.jpg
0001250981

Developers

1. First, clone this repository.
2. Open a terminal in this repo, and create a new virtual environment.
3. Run pip install -e ".[dev]" to install the dependencies.
4. Then run pre-commit install to install the pre-commit hooks (for automatically formatting and checking your code on each commit).