diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a705d0f9..cc7d3266 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "isaac_msgs"]
 	path = communications/isaac_msgs
 	url = https://github.com/nasa/isaac_msgs.git
-[submodule "parseq"]
-	path = anomaly/str/parseq
-	url = git@github.com:baudm/parseq.git
 [submodule "craft"]
 	path = anomaly/str/craft
 	url = git@github.com:clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch.git
diff --git a/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/readme.md b/anomaly/image_str/readme.md
similarity index 90%
rename from anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/readme.md
rename to anomaly/image_str/readme.md
index 1ba8efe8..09db0d75 100644
--- a/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/readme.md
+++ b/anomaly/image_str/readme.md
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ libraries and build them as Python packages.
 
 CRAFT-Pytorch
 
-	https://github.com/clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch
+    pip install https://github.com/marinagmoreira/CRAFT-pytorch.git#egg=craft
 
 PARSeq
 
-	https://github.com/baudm/parseq
+	pip install https://github.com/marinagmoreira/parseq.git@focal#egg=parseq
 
 The Image STR package also contains a requirements file with all the other necessary Python packages. 
 
diff --git a/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/requirements.txt b/anomaly/image_str/requirements.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/requirements.txt
rename to anomaly/image_str/requirements.txt
diff --git a/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/parse_img.py b/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/parse_img.py
index 9b87827a..07446a3a 100755
--- a/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/parse_img.py
+++ b/anomaly/image_str/scripts/image_str/parse_img.py
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
 from craft.craft import CRAFT
 from IPython.display import HTML
 from IPython.display import display as idisplay
-from parseq.strhub.data.module import SceneTextDataModule
 from PIL import Image
+from strhub.data.module import SceneTextDataModule
 from torch.autograd import Variable
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
diff --git a/anomaly/image_str/setup.py b/anomaly/image_str/setup.py
index dcc2ce1b..6b805276 100644
--- a/anomaly/image_str/setup.py
+++ b/anomaly/image_str/setup.py
@@ -3,11 +3,23 @@
 from catkin_pkg.python_setup import generate_distutils_setup
 
 d = generate_distutils_setup(
-    packages=["image_str", "craft", "parseq"],
+    packages=["image_str"],
     package_dir={"": "scripts"},
     install_requires=[
-        "CRAFT-pytorch @ git+ssh://git@github.com/clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch.git",
-        "parseq @ git+ssh://git@github.com/baudm/parseq.git",
+        "strhub>=4.7.1",
+        "craft>=4.7.1",
+        "gdown>=4.7.1",
+        "ipython>=8.12.2",
+        "ipywidgets>=8.0.7",
+        "jellyfish>=1.0.0",
+        "matplotlib>=3.7.2",
+        "numpy>=1.24.4",
+        "opencv_python>=4.8.0.74",
+        "pandas>=2.0.3",
+        "Pillow>=10.0.0",
+        "skimage>=0.0",
+        "torch>=2.0.1",
+        "tqdm>=4.65.0",
     ],
 )