diff --git a/.github/workflows/packaging.yml b/.github/workflows/packaging.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..764a7bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/packaging.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: "Packaging Test"
+
+on: [ pull_request ]
+jobs:
+  check_packaging:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [ "3.11" ]
+        os: [ ubuntu-latest ]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install tox
+      - name: Run Packaging Test
+        run: |
+          tox -e test_packaging
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10d5a68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# This GitHub workflow is only needed for python package releases which are supposed to be published on pypi.
+
+# This workflows will upload a Python Package using Twine when a release is created
+# For more information see: https://help.github.com/en/actions/language-and-framework-guides/using-python-with-github-actions#publishing-to-package-registries
+
+name: Upload Python Package
+on:
+  release:
+    branches: main
+    types: [ created, edited ]
+
+jobs:
+  tests:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [ "3.11" ]
+        os: [ ubuntu-latest ]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install tox
+      - name: Run tox
+        run: |
+          tox
+  build-n-publish:
+    name: Build and publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to PyPI and TestPyPI
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: tests
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install setuptools setuptools-scm wheel twine
+      - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
+        run: |
+          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+      - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        with:
+          user: __token__
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+          # to update visit
+          # https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/ebddocx2table/settings/secrets/actions/PYPI_API_TOKEN
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c2d86e1..eefbd78 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -132,3 +132,5 @@ dmypy.json
 
 # vscode settings
 .vscode/
+
+src/_ebddocx2table_version.py
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8ebcaaf..161976a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,39 @@ The package `ebddocx2table` scrapes the `.docx` files and returns data in a mode
 
 Once you scraped the data (using this package) you can plot it with [`ebdtable2graph`](https://pypi.org/project/ebdtable2graph).
 
+##  How to use the package
+In any case, install the repo from PyPI:
+
+### Use as a library
+```python
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import cattrs
+
+from ebddocx2table import TableNotFoundError, get_all_ebd_keys, get_ebd_docx_tables  # type:ignore[import]
+from ebddocx2table.docxtableconverter import DocxTableConverter  # type:ignore[import]
+
+docx_file_path = Path("unittests/test_data/ebd20230629_v34.docx")
+# download this .docx File from edi-energy.de or find it in the unittests of this repository.
+# https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/ebddocx2table/blob/main/unittests/test_data/ebd20230629_v34.docx
+docx_tables = get_ebd_docx_tables(docx_file_path, ebd_key="E_0003")
+converter = DocxTableConverter(
+    docx_tables,
+    ebd_key="E_0003",
+    chapter="MaBiS",
+    sub_chapter="7.42.1: AD: Bestellung der Aggregationsebene der Bilanzkreissummenzeitreihe auf Ebene der Regelzone",
+)
+result = converter.convert_docx_tables_to_ebd_table()
+with open(Path("E_0003.json"), "w+", encoding="utf-8") as result_file:
+    # the result file can be found here:
+    # https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/machine-readable_entscheidungsbaumdiagramme/tree/main/FV2310
+    json.dump(cattrs.unstructure(result), result_file, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
+```
+
+### Use as a CLI tool
+_to be written_
+
 ## How to use this Repository on Your Machine (for development)
 
 Please follow the instructions in our
diff --git a/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.in b/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fef062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.in
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# requirements for the hatchling build system
+build
+twine
diff --git a/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.txt b/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97fefe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile requirements-packaging.in
+#
+bleach==6.0.0
+    # via readme-renderer
+build==0.10.0
+    # via -r requirements-packaging.in
+certifi==2023.5.7
+    # via requests
+charset-normalizer==3.1.0
+    # via requests
+colorama==0.4.6
+    # via build
+docutils==0.20.1
+    # via readme-renderer
+idna==3.4
+    # via requests
+importlib-metadata==6.7.0
+    # via
+    #   keyring
+    #   twine
+jaraco-classes==3.2.3
+    # via keyring
+keyring==24.2.0
+    # via twine
+markdown-it-py==3.0.0
+    # via rich
+mdurl==0.1.2
+    # via markdown-it-py
+more-itertools==9.1.0
+    # via jaraco-classes
+packaging==23.1
+    # via build
+pkginfo==1.9.6
+    # via twine
+pygments==2.15.1
+    # via
+    #   readme-renderer
+    #   rich
+pyproject-hooks==1.0.0
+    # via build
+pywin32-ctypes==0.2.2
+    # via keyring
+readme-renderer==40.0
+    # via twine
+requests==2.31.0
+    # via
+    #   requests-toolbelt
+    #   twine
+requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
+    # via twine
+rfc3986==2.0.0
+    # via twine
+rich==13.4.2
+    # via twine
+six==1.16.0
+    # via bleach
+twine==4.0.2
+    # via -r requirements-packaging.in
+urllib3==2.0.3
+    # via
+    #   requests
+    #   twine
+webencodings==0.5.1
+    # via bleach
+zipp==3.15.0
+    # via importlib-metadata
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index be10d94..588b555 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+[project]
+name = "ebddocx2table"
+description = "A scraper to library to scrape .docx files with 'Entscheidungsbaumdiagramm' tables into a truely machine readable structure"
+license = { text = "GPL" }
+requires-python = ">=3.11"
+authors = [{ name = "Hochfrequenz Unternehmensberatung GmbH", email = "info@hochfrequenz.de" }]
+keywords = ["EBD", "Energiewirtschaft", "Marktkommunikation"]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Environment :: Console",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "ebdtable2graph>=0.1.9",
+    "python-docx",
+    "more_itertools",
+    "attrs",
+    "click"
+    # add all the dependencies from requirements.in here, too
+]
+dynamic = ["readme", "version"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Changelog = "https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/ebddocx2table/releases"
+Homepage = "https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/ebddocx2table"
+
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 120
 
@@ -8,10 +39,26 @@ profile = "black"
 [tool.pylint."MESSAGES CONTROL"]
 max-line-length = 120
 
-# the following lines are needed if you would like to build a python package
-# and you want to use semantic versioning
-# [build-system]
-# requires = ["setuptools>=41.0", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4"]
-# build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+[build-system]
+requires = ["hatchling>=1.8.0", "hatch-vcs", "hatch-fancy-pypi-readme"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[tool.hatch.metadata.hooks.fancy-pypi-readme]
+content-type = "text/markdown"
+fragments = [{ path = "README.md" }]
+
+[tool.hatch.version]
+source = "vcs"
+
+[tool.hatch.build.hooks.vcs]
+version-file = "src/_ebddocx2table_version.py"
+template = '''
+version = "{version}"
+'''
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.sdist]
+exclude = ["/unittests"]
 
-# [tool.setuptools_scm]
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+only-include = ["src"]
+sources = ["src"]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 491d3df..8dfea18 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ commands =
     coverage html --omit .tox/*,unittests/*
     coverage report --fail-under 80 --omit .tox/*,unittests/*
 
+[testenv:test_packaging]
+skip_install = true
+deps =
+    -r dev_requirements/requirements-packaging.txt
+commands =
+    python -m build
+    twine check dist/*
 
 [testenv:dev]
 # the dev environment contains everything you need to start developing on your local machine.