diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b67eb34d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+[project]
+name = "easyocr"
+version = "1.7.1"
+description = "End-to-End Multi-Lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Solution"
+authors = [{name="Rakpong Kittinaradorn", email="r.kittinaradorn@gmail.com"}]
+license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
+readme = "README.md"
+classifiers = ["Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable"]
+keywords = ["ocr", "optical character recognition", "deep learning", "neural network"]
+dependencies = [
+    "ninja",
+    "numpy",
+    "opencv-python-headless",
+    "Pillow",
+    "pyclipper",
+    "python-bidi",
+    "PyYAML",
+    "scikit-image",
+    "scipy",
+    "Shapely",
+    "torch",
+    "torchvision >= 0.5",
+]
+scripts = {easyocr="easyocr.cli:main"}
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR"
+Documentation = "https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/documentation/"
+Repository = "https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR.git"
+Changelog = "https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/blob/master/releasenotes.md"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+exclude = ["build*", "trainer*", "unit_test*"]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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index 9d0fb7b71..000000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-torch
-torchvision>=0.5
-opencv-python-headless
-scipy
-numpy
-Pillow
-scikit-image
-python-bidi
-PyYAML
-Shapely
-pyclipper
-ninja
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
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index 08aedd7e6..000000000
--- a/setup.cfg
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[metadata]
-description_file = README.md
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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index c7d7c4bf6..000000000
--- a/setup.py
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-"""
-End-to-End Multi-Lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Solution
-"""
-from io import open
-from setuptools import setup
-
-with open('requirements.txt', encoding="utf-8-sig") as f:
-    requirements = f.readlines()
-
-def readme():
-    with open('README.md', encoding="utf-8-sig") as f:
-        README = f.read()
-    return README
-
-setup(
-    name='easyocr',
-    packages=['easyocr'],
-    include_package_data=True,
-    version='1.7.1',
-    install_requires=requirements,
-    entry_points={"console_scripts": ["easyocr= easyocr.cli:main"]},
-    license='Apache License 2.0',
-    description='End-to-End Multi-Lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Solution',
-    long_description=readme(),
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    author='Rakpong Kittinaradorn',
-    author_email='r.kittinaradorn@gmail.com',
-    url='https://github.com/jaidedai/easyocr',
-    download_url='https://github.com/jaidedai/easyocr.git',
-    keywords=['ocr optical character recognition deep learning neural network'],
-    classifiers=[
-        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable'
-    ],
-
-)