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+#OVERVIEW
+
+Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode
+support.
+
+**Please note**--the default download for all platforms is 64-bit. Please
+look in the files section for the correct 32-bit platform instead of
+using the default download button if you want 32-bit.
+
+##REQUIREMENTS
+
+Biber is written in Perl with the aim of providing a customised and
+sophisticated data preparation backend for biblatex.
+
+You do not need to install Perl use biber--binaries are provided for many
+operating systems via the main TeX distributions (TeXLive, MacTeX, MiKTeX)
+and also via download from SourceForge.
+
+You only need a Perl installation to use biber in one of the following
+cases:
+
+- A binary version is not available for your OS/platform
+- You wish to keep up with all of the bleeding-edge git commits before they
+- are packaged into a binary.
+
+For the vast majority of users, using the latest binary for the OS/platform
+you are using will be what you want to do. For details on the requirements
+for installing the Perl program version, please see the biber PDF documentation.
+
+The git repository for Biber is kept on github:
+
+[https://github.com/plk/biber](https://github.com/plk/biber)
+
+##SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
+
+After installing, `biber --help` will give you the basic documentation.
+
+The latest PDF documentation can be found here:
+
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber](https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber)
+
+More information, bugfix releases, forums and bug tracker are available at:
+
+[https://github.com/plk/biber](https://github.com/plk/biber)
+
+##BUILDING
+
+If you wish to build you own binary, see the main biber PDF documentation.
+There is a section there on how to do this. The PDF documentation is in the
+`documentation` folder for the release on Sourceforge.
+