- 2021.1.21 update more than 25+ multilingual recognition models [models list](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md), including：English, Chinese, German, French, Japanese，Spanish，Portuguese Russia Arabic and so on. Models for more languages will continue to be updated [Develop Plan](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues/1048).
- 2020.12.15 update Data synthesis tool, i.e., [Style-Text](./StyleText/README.md)，easy to synthesize a large number of images which are similar to the target scene image.
- 2020.11.25 Update a new data annotation tool, i.e., [PPOCRLabel](./PPOCRLabel/README.md), which is helpful to improve the labeling efficiency. Moreover, the labeling results can be used in training of the PP-OCR system directly.
- 2020.9.22 Update the PP-OCR technical article, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941
* Note 1: The language options is correspond to the corpus. Currently, the tool only supports English, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
* Note 1: The language options is correspond to the corpus. Currently, the tool only supports English(en), Simplified Chinese(ch) and Korean(ko).
* Note 2: Synth-Text is mainly used to generate images for OCR recognition models.
So the height of style images should be around 32 pixels. Images in other sizes may behave poorly.
* Note 3: You can modify `use_gpu` in `configs/config.yml` to determine whether to use GPU for prediction.
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*`with_label`：Whether the `label_file` is label file list.
*`CorpusGenerator`：
*`method`：Method of CorpusGenerator，supports `FileCorpus` and `EnNumCorpus`. If `EnNumCorpus` is used，No other configuration is needed，otherwise you need to set `corpus_file` and `language`.
*`language`：Language of the corpus.
*`language`：Language of the corpus. Currently, the tool only supports English(en), Simplified Chinese(ch) and Korean(ko).
*`corpus_file`: Filepath of the corpus. Corpus file should be a text file which will be split by line-endings（'\n'）. Corpus generator samples one line each time.
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# GPU training Support single card and multi-card training, specify the card number through --gpus. If your paddle version is less than 2.0rc1, please use '--selected_gpus'
# GPU training Support single card and multi-card training, specify the card number through --gpus.
# Start training, the following command has been written into the train.sh file, just modify the configuration file path in the file
If you need to predict other language models, when using inference model prediction, you need to specify the dictionary path used by `--rec_char_dict_path`. At the same time, in order to get the correct visualization results,
You need to specify the visual font path through `--vis_font_path`. There are small language fonts provided by default under the `doc/` path, such as Korean recognition:
You need to specify the visual font path through `--vis_font_path`. There are small language fonts provided by default under the `doc/fonts` path, such as Korean recognition:
For more software version requirements, please refer to the instructions in [Installation Document](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/install/quick) for operation.
| french_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for French recognition|[rec_french_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_french_lite_train.yml)|2.65M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/french_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/french_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
| german_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for French recognition|[rec_german_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_german_lite_train.yml)|2.65M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/german_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/german_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
| german_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for German recognition|[rec_german_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_german_lite_train.yml)|2.65M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/german_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/german_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
| korean_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for Korean recognition|[rec_korean_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_korean_lite_train.yml)|3.9M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/korean_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/korean_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
| japan_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for Japanese recognition|[rec_japan_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_japan_lite_train.yml)|4.23M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/japan_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/japan_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
| it_mobile_v2.0_rec |Lightweight model for Italian recognition|rec_it_lite_train.yml|2.53M|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/it_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/multilingual/it_mobile_v2.0_rec_train.tar) |
PaddleOCR also provides multi-language. The configuration file in `configs/rec/multi_languages` provides multi-language configuration files. Currently, the multi-language algorithms supported by PaddleOCR are:
| Configuration file | Algorithm name | backbone | trans | seq | pred | language ｜
| rec_en_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | English ｜
| rec_french_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | French ｜
| rec_ger_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | German ｜
| rec_japan_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Japanese ｜
| rec_korean_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Korean ｜
PaddleOCR currently supports 26 (except Chinese) language recognition. A multi-language configuration file template is
provided under the path `configs/rec/multi_languages`: [rec_multi_language_lite_train.yml](../../configs/rec/multi_language/rec_multi_language_lite_train.yml)。
There are two ways to create the required configuration file:：
1. Automatically generated by script
[generate_multi_language_configs.py](../../configs/rec/multi_language/generate_multi_language_configs.py) Can help you generate configuration files for multi-language models
- Take Italian as an example, if your data is prepared in the following format:
```
|-train_data
|- it_train.txt # train_set label
|- it_val.txt # val_set label
|- data
|- word_001.jpg
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
You can use the default parameters to generate a configuration file:
```bash
# The code needs to be run in the specified directory
cd PaddleOCR/configs/rec/multi_language/
# Set the configuration file of the language to be generated through the -l or --language parameter.
# This command will write the default parameters into the configuration file
python3 generate_multi_language_configs.py -l it
```
- If your data is placed in another location, or you want to use your own dictionary, you can generate the configuration file by specifying the relevant parameters:
```bash
# -l or --language field is required
# --train to modify the training set
# --val to modify the validation set
# --data_dir to modify the data set directory
# --dict to modify the dict path
# -o to modify the corresponding default parameters
cd PaddleOCR/configs/rec/multi_language/
python3 generate_multi_language_configs.py -l it \ # language
--train {path/of/train_label.txt} \ # path of train_label
--val {path/of/val_label.txt} \ # path of val_label
--data_dir {train_data/path} \ # root directory of training data
--dict {path/of/dict} \ # path of dict
-o Global.use_gpu=False # whether to use gpu
...
```
2. Manually modify the configuration file
You can also manually modify the following fields in the template:
```
Global:
use_gpu: True
epoch_num: 500
...
character_type: it # language
character_dict_path: {path/of/dict} # path of dict
Train:
dataset:
name: SimpleDataSet
data_dir: train_data/ # root directory of training data
| rec_bg_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Bulgarian | bg |
| rec_uk_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Ukranian | uk |
| rec_be_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Belarusian | be |
| rec_te_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Telugu | te |
| rec_ka_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Kannada | ka |
| rec_ta_lite_train.yml | CRNN | Mobilenet_v3 small 0.5 | None | BiLSTM | ctc | Tamil | ta |
The multi-language model training method is the same as the Chinese model. The training data set is 100w synthetic data. A small amount of fonts and test data can be downloaded on [Baidu Netdisk](https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bS_u207Rm7YbY33wOECKDA),Extraction code:frgi.
