diff --git a/files/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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rename from files/LICENSE
rename to LICENSE
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2dce889..a1244eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "    uninstall    Remove all installed files, and subfolder in share/"
 
 deps:
-	pip3 --no-cache-dir install -r files/requirements.txt
+	pip3 --no-cache-dir install -r requirements.txt
 
 install:
 	@mkdir -p $(SHAREDIR) $(BINDIR) $(TESTDIR)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e13318a..e274e80 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 # ocrd_typegroups_classifier
 
-** Quick setup **
+> Typegroups classifier for OCR
+
+## Quick setup
+
 If needed, create a virtual environment for Python 3 (it was tested
 successfully with Python 3.7), activate it, and install ocrd.
 
-```
+```sh
 virtualenv -p python3 ocrd-venv3
 source ocrd-venv3/bin/activate
 pip3 install ocrd
diff --git a/files/ocrd-tool.json b/ocrd-tool.json
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rename from files/ocrd-tool.json
rename to ocrd-tool.json
diff --git a/files/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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rename from files/requirements.txt
rename to requirements.txt
diff --git a/files/test.sh b/tests/test.sh
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rename from files/test.sh
rename to tests/test.sh