Install LabelImg Annotation tool in Windows

Question

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\

Answer 1

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'

Answer 2

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.