I recommend downloading PyCharm if you're not a venv expert. It makes the setup process a bit more straightforward, so I will assume that's how you're doing it in this README.

1. Clone the repo (link for ssh cloning)
2. Create a virtual environment using the PyCharm interface (use this guide). You will need Python installed already to do this (preferably >3.6).
3. With your virtual environment activated, install the packages in requirements.txt.

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. If you get errors pertaining to the wordcloud package, and are on Windows, you likely need to install the C++ Build Tools, then try the above command again.
5. This next step is a bit weird and there's probably a better way to do it, but here's what you need to do:
   1. open a python shell in your virtual environment
   2. run import nltk
   3. then nltk.download('punkt')
   4. lastly nltk.download('stopwords')
   5. That will put the language dictionaries needed for the Natural Language Processing portion of the app in the proper places
6. From the root project directory, run python main.py and start uploading your own text files to make some ~ art ~!