Installation

Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or newer
• Tesseract OCR (for offline mode)

Install Chart2CSV

pip install chart2csv

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/kiku-jw/Chart2CSV.git
cd Chart2CSV
pip install -e .

Install Tesseract OCR

Tesseract is needed for offline text recognition.

macOS:

brew install tesseract

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Windows: Download from: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

Optional: Mistral API Key

For better accuracy, you can use Mistral AI instead of Tesseract.

1. Get a free API key at https://console.mistral.ai/
2. Set it as environment variable:

export MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_key_here

3. Use --use-mistral flag when running Chart2CSV

Verify Installation

python -m chart2csv.cli.main --help

You should see the help message with all available options.