README.md

## Introduction
PaddleOCR aims to create a rich, leading, and practical OCR tool library to help users train better models and apply them.

**Recent updates**
- 2020.5.30，Model prediction and training support Windows systems, and the display of recognition results is optimized
- 2020.5.30，Open source general Chinese OCR model
- 2020.5.30，Provide Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR model inference

## Features
- Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR model, total model size is only 8.6M
    - Single model supports Chinese and English numbers combination recognition, vertical text recognition, long text recognition
    - Detection model DB (4.1M) + recognition model CRNN (4.5M)
- Various text detection algorithms: EAST, DB
- Various text recognition algorithms: Rosetta, CRNN, STAR-Net, RARE

### Supported Chinese models list:

|Model Name|Description |Detection Model link|Recognition Model link|
|-|-|-|-|
|chinese_db_crnn_mobile|Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR model|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_mv3_db_infer.tar) & [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_mv3_db.tar)|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_mv3_crnn_infer.tar) & [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_mv3_crnn.tar)|
|chinese_db_crnn_server|General Chinese OCR model|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_r50_vd_db_infer.tar) & [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_r50_vd_db.tar)|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_r34_vd_crnn_infer.tar) & [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_r34_vd_crnn.tar)|


For testing our Chinese OCR online：https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/hub/scene/ocr

**You can also quickly experience the Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR and general Chinese OCR models as follows:**

## **Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR and General Chinese OCR inference**

![](doc/imgs_results/11.jpg)

The picture above is the result of our Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR model. For more testing results, please see the end of the article [Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR results](#超轻量级中文OCR效果展示) and [General Chinese OCR results](#通用中文OCR效果展示).

#### 1. Environment configuration

Please see [Quick installation](./doc/installation.md)

#### 2. Download inference models

#### (1) Download Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR models
```
mkdir inference && cd inference
# Download the detection part of the Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR and decompress it
wget https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_mv3_db_infer.tar && tar xf ch_det_mv3_db_infer.tar
# Download the recognition part of the Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR and decompress it
wget https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_mv3_crnn_infer.tar && tar xf ch_rec_mv3_crnn_infer.tar
cd ..
```
#### (2) Download General Chinese OCR models
```
mkdir inference && cd inference
# Download the detection part of the general Chinese OCR model and decompress it
wget https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_r50_vd_db_infer.tar && tar xf ch_det_r50_vd_db_infer.tar
# Download the recognition part of the generic Chinese OCR model and decompress it
wget https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_r34_vd_crnn_infer.tar && tar xf ch_rec_r34_vd_crnn_infer.tar
cd ..
```

#### 3. Single image and batch image prediction

The following code implements text detection and recognition inference tandemly. When performing prediction, you need to specify the path of a single image or image folder through the parameter `image_dir`, the parameter `det_model_dir` specifies the path to detect the inference model, and the parameter `rec_model_dir` specifies the path to identify the inference model. The visual recognition results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default.

```
# Set PYTHONPATH environment variable
export PYTHONPATH=.

# Predict a single image by specifying image path to image_dir
python3 tools/infer/predict_system.py --image_dir="./doc/imgs/11.jpg" --det_model_dir="./inference/ch_det_mv3_db/"  --rec_model_dir="./inference/ch_rec_mv3_crnn/"

# Predict a batch of images by specifying image folder path to image_dir
python3 tools/infer/predict_system.py --image_dir="./doc/imgs/" --det_model_dir="./inference/ch_det_mv3_db/"  --rec_model_dir="./inference/ch_rec_mv3_crnn/"

# If you want to use the CPU for prediction, you need to set the use_gpu parameter to False
python3 tools/infer/predict_system.py --image_dir="./doc/imgs/11.jpg" --det_model_dir="./inference/ch_det_mv3_db/"  --rec_model_dir="./inference/ch_rec_mv3_crnn/" --use_gpu=False
```

To run inference of the Generic Chinese OCR model, follow these steps above to download the corresponding models and update the relevant parameters. Examples are as follows:
```
# Predict a single image by specifying image path to image_dir
python3 tools/infer/predict_system.py --image_dir="./doc/imgs/11.jpg" --det_model_dir="./inference/ch_det_r50_vd_db/"  --rec_model_dir="./inference/ch_rec_r34_vd_crnn/"
```

For more text detection and recognition models, please refer to the document [Inference](./doc/inference.md)

## Documentation 
- [Quick installation](./doc/installation.md)
- [Text detection model training/evaluation/prediction](./doc/detection.md)
- [Text recognition model training/evaluation/prediction](./doc/recognition.md)
- [Inference](./doc/inference.md)

## Text detection algorithm

PaddleOCR open source text detection algorithm list:
- [x]  EAST([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03155))
- [x]  DB([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08947))
- [ ]  SAST([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05498))(Baidu Self-Research, comming soon)

On the ICDAR2015 text detection public dataset, the detection result is as follows:

|Model|Backbone|precision|recall|Hmean|Download link|
|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|EAST|ResNet50_vd|88.18%|85.51%|86.82%|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/det_r50_vd_east.tar)|
|EAST|MobileNetV3|81.67%|79.83%|80.74%|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/det_mv3_east.tar)|
|DB|ResNet50_vd|83.79%|80.65%|82.19%|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/det_r50_vd_db.tar)|
|DB|MobileNetV3|75.92%|73.18%|74.53%|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/det_mv3_db.tar)|

* Note: For the training and evaluation of the above DB model, post-processing parameters box_thresh=0.6 and unclip_ratio=1.5 need to be set. If using different datasets and different models for training, these two parameters can be adjusted for better result.

For the training guide and use of PaddleOCR text detection algorithm, please refer to the document [Text detection model training/evaluation/prediction](./doc/detection.md)

## Text recognition algorithm

PaddleOCR open-source text recognition algorithm list:
- [x]  CRNN([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05717))
- [x]  Rosetta([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05085))
- [x]  STAR-Net([paper](http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/2016/papers/paper043/index.html))
- [x]  RARE([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03915v1))
- [ ]  SRN([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12294))(Baidu Self-Research, comming soon)

Refer to [DTRB](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01906), the training and evaluation result of these above text recognition (using MJSynth and SynthText for training, evaluate on IIIT, SVT, IC03, IC13, IC15, SVTP, CUTE) is as follow:

|Model|Backbone|Avg Accuracy|Module combination|Download link|
|-|-|-|-|-|
|Rosetta|Resnet34_vd|80.24%|rec_r34_vd_none_none_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_r34_vd_none_none_ctc.tar)|
|Rosetta|MobileNetV3|78.16%|rec_mv3_none_none_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_mv3_none_none_ctc.tar)|
|CRNN|Resnet34_vd|82.20%|rec_r34_vd_none_bilstm_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_r34_vd_none_bilstm_ctc.tar)|
|CRNN|MobileNetV3|79.37%|rec_mv3_none_bilstm_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_mv3_none_bilstm_ctc.tar)|
|STAR-Net|Resnet34_vd|83.93%|rec_r34_vd_tps_bilstm_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_r34_vd_tps_bilstm_ctc.tar)|
|STAR-Net|MobileNetV3|81.56%|rec_mv3_tps_bilstm_ctc|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_mv3_tps_bilstm_ctc.tar)|
|RARE|Resnet34_vd|84.90%|rec_r34_vd_tps_bilstm_attn|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_r34_vd_tps_bilstm_attn.tar)|
|RARE|MobileNetV3|83.32%|rec_mv3_tps_bilstm_attn|[Download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/rec_mv3_tps_bilstm_attn.tar)|

Please refer to the document for training guide and use of PaddleOCR text recognition algorithm [Text recognition model training/evaluation/prediction](./doc/recognition.md)

## End-to-end OCR algorithm
- [ ]  [End2End-PSL](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07808)(Baidu Self-Research, comming soon)

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## Ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR result
![](doc/imgs_results/1.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/7.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/12.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/4.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/6.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/9.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/16.png)
![](doc/imgs_results/22.jpg)

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## 通用中文OCR效果展示
![](doc/imgs_results/chinese_db_crnn_server/11.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/chinese_db_crnn_server/2.jpg)
![](doc/imgs_results/chinese_db_crnn_server/8.jpg)

## FAQ
1. 预测报错：got an unexpected keyword argument 'gradient_clip'

    The installed paddle version is not correct. At present, this project only supports paddle1.7, which will be adapted to 1.8 in the near future.。
    
2. 转换attention识别模型时报错：KeyError: 'predict'

    基于Attention损失的识别模型推理还在调试中。对于中文文本识别，建议优先选择基于CTC损失的识别模型，实践中也发现基于Attention损失的效果不如基于CTC损失的识别模型。
    
3. 关于推理速度

    图片中的文字较多时，预测时间会增，可以使用--rec_batch_num设置更小预测batch num，默认值为30，可以改为10或其他数值。

4. 服务部署与移动端部署

    预计6月中下旬会先后发布基于Serving的服务部署方案和基于Paddle Lite的移动端部署方案，欢迎持续关注。
    
5. 自研算法发布时间

    自研算法SAST、SRN、End2End-PSL都将在6-7月陆续发布，敬请期待。

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## References
```
1. EAST:
@inproceedings{zhou2017east,
  title={EAST: an efficient and accurate scene text detector},
  author={Zhou, Xinyu and Yao, Cong and Wen, He and Wang, Yuzhi and Zhou, Shuchang and He, Weiran and Liang, Jiajun},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={5551--5560},
  year={2017}
}

2. DB:
@article{liao2019real,
  title={Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization},
  author={Liao, Minghui and Wan, Zhaoyi and Yao, Cong and Chen, Kai and Bai, Xiang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08947},
  year={2019}
}

3. DTRB:
@inproceedings{baek2019wrong,
  title={What is wrong with scene text recognition model comparisons? dataset and model analysis},
  author={Baek, Jeonghun and Kim, Geewook and Lee, Junyeop and Park, Sungrae and Han, Dongyoon and Yun, Sangdoo and Oh, Seong Joon and Lee, Hwalsuk},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages={4715--4723},
  year={2019}
}

4. SAST:
@inproceedings{wang2019single,
  title={A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on Context Attended Multi-Task Learning},
  author={Wang, Pengfei and Zhang, Chengquan and Qi, Fei and Huang, Zuming and En, Mengyi and Han, Junyu and Liu, Jingtuo and Ding, Errui and Shi, Guangming},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
  pages={1277--1285},
  year={2019}
}

5. SRN:
@article{yu2020towards,
  title={Towards Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Semantic Reasoning Networks},
  author={Yu, Deli and Li, Xuan and Zhang, Chengquan and Han, Junyu and Liu, Jingtuo and Ding, Errui},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12294},
  year={2020}
}

6. end2end-psl:
@inproceedings{sun2019chinese,
  title={Chinese Street View Text: Large-scale Chinese Text Reading with Partially Supervised Learning},
  author={Sun, Yipeng and Liu, Jiaming and Liu, Wei and Han, Junyu and Ding, Errui and Liu, Jingtuo},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages={9086--9095},
  year={2019}
}
```

## License
This project is released under <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/master/LICENSE">Apache 2.0 license</a>

## Contribution
We welcome your contribution to PaddleOCR and thank you for your feedback.