Install LabelImg Annotation tool in Windows

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I am trying to install LabelImg in windows to make annotations of my images.I am following the steps from https://github.com/tzutalin/labelImg#windows .I have installed PyQt4 and lxml.But when trying run this command:

pyrcc4 -o resources.py resources.qrc

Its giving this error:

C:\Users\Manoj\Downloads\labelImg-master\labelImg-master>pyrcc4 -o resources.py resources.qrc 'pyrcc4' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

and when i am trying to install using pip its giving this error:

C:\Users\Manoj\Downloads\labelImg-master\labelImg-master>pip install labelImg Collecting labelImg Using cached labelImg-1.3.4.0.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Users\Manoj\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-3ew1c3zy\labelImg\setup. py", line 7, in readme = readme_file.read() File "c:\python35\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 4800: character maps to

---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Manoj\Ap pData\Local\Temp\pip-build-3ew1c3zy\labelImg\

I had this problem and it turned out the github page is not totally up-to date. In my case I am using Qt5 as is suggested by the project. For Qt5, you have to call pyrcc5 instead of pyrcc4. — Cerno, Feb 27 '21 at 10:52

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '17 at 11:27

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Any reason you want to build the project rather than just download prebuilt binaries? If not, don't follow the instructions under 'Build from source' but follow the link under 'Download prebuilt binaries'

answered Jul 19 '17 at 11:27

orangeInk

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The link is now broken. I found useful this link now with the Windows releases https://github.com/heartexlabs/labelImg/releases . For example, at the time of this comment, I downloaded windows_v1.8.1.zip, unzip it and then run the `labelImg.exe` file – Valentin_Ștefan Aug 16 '22 at 15:24

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '18 at 06:04

You have to open the environmental variable on your computer and check if pyrcc5 or pyrcc4 file is present in the scripts folder. If not then to install the dev tools for PyQt5 use "pip install pyqt5-dev-tools" in case of PyQt5. Then open the python path and see if pyrcc5 files must be in the scripts folder now.

Now use following commands

pyrcc5 -o resources.py resources.qrc

python labelImg.py

labelImg should be working by now.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 18 '19 at 13:29

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You need to install PyQt5 first. Try this:

pip3 install PyQt5

and now try running that code.

edited Feb 18 '19 at 13:29

Cody Gray - on strike

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answered Feb 18 '19 at 13:00

Sneha V

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Install LabelImg Annotation tool in Windows

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