Setting up the development environment

Install Poppler

For MacOS, you need to run

brew install poppler

For Debian/Ubuntu, you need to run

sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils

Then, you can install the dependencies using uv in the virtual environment .venv using

git clone https://github.com/soumik12345/medrag-multi-modal
cd medrag-multi-modal
pip install -U pip uv
uv sync

After this, you need to activate the virtual environment using

source .venv/bin/activate

In the activated virtual environment, you can optionally install Flash Attention (required for ColPali) using

uv pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation