Installation

From source

cargo install --path .

Or directly from GitHub:

cargo install --git https://github.com/crossmem/crossmem-rs

crossmem requires the following tools for PDF capture and compilation:

Tool	Purpose	Install
`pdftotext`	Fallback PDF text extraction	`brew install poppler`
`marker`	PDF parsing with bounding boxes (default)	`pip install marker-pdf` or `uvx marker-pdf`
Ollama	Local LLM for paraphrase/implication	ollama.com

crossmem uses llama3.2:3b by default. Pull the model before your first compile:

ollama pull llama3.2:3b

Override the model with the CROSSMEM_OLLAMA_MODEL environment variable:

CROSSMEM_OLLAMA_MODEL=mistral crossmem compile vaswani2017attention

crossmem --version