diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
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@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-from json import load
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-with open('./ocrd-tool.json', 'r') as f:
-    version = load(f)['version']
-
-install_requires = open('requirements.txt').read().split('\n')
-
-setup(
-    name='sbb_binarization',
-    version=version,
-    description='Pixelwise binarization with selectional auto-encoders in Keras',
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-    author='Vahid Rezanezhad',
-    url='https://github.com/qurator-spk/sbb_binarization',
-    license='Apache License 2.0',
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=('test', 'repo')),
-    include_package_data=True,
-    package_data={'': ['*.json', '*.yml', '*.yaml']},
-    install_requires=install_requires,
-    entry_points={
-        'console_scripts': [
-            'sbb_binarize=sbb_binarize.cli:main',
-            'ocrd-sbb-binarize=sbb_binarize.ocrd_cli:cli',
-        ]
-    },
-)