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### Recent Update
### Recent Update
- 2021.8.11:
- New functions: Open the dataset folder, image rotation (Note: Please delete the label box before rotating the image) (by [Wei-JL](https://github.com/Wei-JL))
- Added shortcut key description (Help-Shortcut Key), repaired the direction shortcut key movement function under batch processing (by [d2623587501](https://github.com/d2623587501))
- 2021.2.5: New batch processing and undo functions (by [Evezerest](https://github.com/Evezerest)):
- 2021.2.5: New batch processing and undo functions (by [Evezerest](https://github.com/Evezerest)):
- Batch processing function: Press and hold the Ctrl key to select the box, you can move, copy, and delete in batches.
-**Batch processing function**: Press and hold the Ctrl key to select the box, you can move, copy, and delete in batches.
- Undo function: In the process of drawing a four-point label box or after editing the box, press Ctrl+Z to undo the previous operation.
-**Undo function**: In the process of drawing a four-point label box or after editing the box, press Ctrl+Z to undo the previous operation.
- Fix image rotation and size problems, optimize the process of editing the mark frame (by [ninetailskim](https://github.com/ninetailskim)、 [edencfc](https://github.com/edencfc)).
- Fix image rotation and size problems, optimize the process of editing the mark frame (by [ninetailskim](https://github.com/ninetailskim)、 [edencfc](https://github.com/edencfc)).
- 2021.1.11: Optimize the labeling experience (by [edencfc](https://github.com/edencfc)),
- 2021.1.11: Optimize the labeling experience (by [edencfc](https://github.com/edencfc)),
- Users can choose whether to pop up the label input dialog after drawing the detection box in "View - Pop-up Label Input Dialog".
- Users can choose whether to pop up the label input dialog after drawing the detection box in "View - Pop-up Label Input Dialog".
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## Installation
## Installation
### 1. Install PaddleOCR
### 1. Environment Preparation
PaddleOCR models has been built in PPOCRLabel, please refer to [PaddleOCR installation document](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/doc/doc_ch/installation.md) to prepare PaddleOCR and make sure it works.
#### **Install PaddlePaddle 2.0**
### 2. Install PPOCRLabel
```bash
pip3 install--upgrade pip
# If you have cuda9 or cuda10 installed on your machine, please run the following command to install
For more software version requirements, please refer to the instructions in [Installation Document](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/install/quick) for operation.
# Note: The cloud-hosting code may not be able to synchronize the update with this GitHub project in real time. There might be a delay of 3-5 days. Please give priority to the recommended method.
```
Download and install [Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/download/#download)(Python 3+)
#### **Install Third-party Libraries**
```bash
cd PaddleOCR
pip3 install-r requirements.txt
```
```
If you getting this error `OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found` when you install shapely on windows. Please try to download Shapely whl file using http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely.
Reference: [Solve shapely installation on windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44398265/install-shapely-oserror-winerror-126-the-specified-module-could-not-be-found)
### 2. Install PPOCRLabel
#### Windows
```bash
pip install pyqt5
pip install pyqt5
cd ./PPOCRLabel # Change the directory to the PPOCRLabel folder
cd ./PPOCRLabel # Change the directory to the PPOCRLabel folder
python PPOCRLabel.py
python PPOCRLabel.py
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#### Ubuntu Linux
#### Ubuntu Linux
```
```bash
pip3 install pyqt5
pip3 install pyqt5
pip3 install trash-cli
pip3 install trash-cli
cd ./PPOCRLabel # Change the directory to the PPOCRLabel folder
cd ./PPOCRLabel # Change the directory to the PPOCRLabel folder
python3 PPOCRLabel.py
python3 PPOCRLabel.py
```
```
#### macOS
#### MacOS
```
```bash
pip3 install pyqt5
pip3 install pyqt5
pip3 uninstall opencv-python # Uninstall opencv manually as it conflicts with pyqt
pip3 uninstall opencv-python # Uninstall opencv manually as it conflicts with pyqt
pip3 install opencv-contrib-python-headless==4.2.0.32 # Install the headless version of opencv
pip3 install opencv-contrib-python-headless==4.2.0.32 # Install the headless version of opencv
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7. Double click the result in 'recognition result' list to manually change inaccurate recognition results.
7. Double click the result in 'recognition result' list to manually change inaccurate recognition results.
8. Click "Check", the image status will switch to "√",then the program automatically jump to the next.
8.**Click "Check", the image status will switch to "√",then the program automatically jump to the next.**
9. Click "Delete Image" and the image will be deleted to the recycle bin.
9. Click "Delete Image" and the image will be deleted to the recycle bin.
10. Labeling result: the user can save manually through the menu "File - Save Label", while the program will also save automatically if "File - Auto Save Label Mode" is selected. The manually checked label will be stored in *Label.txt* under the opened picture folder. Click "PaddleOCR"-"Save Recognition Results" in the menu bar, the recognition training data of such pictures will be saved in the *crop_img* folder, and the recognition label will be saved in *rec_gt.txt*<sup>[4]</sup>.
10. Labeling result: the user can export the label result manually through the menu "File - Export Label", while the program will also export automatically if "File - Auto export Label Mode" is selected. The manually checked label will be stored in *Label.txt* under the opened picture folder. Click "File"-"Export Recognition Results" in the menu bar, the recognition training data of such pictures will be saved in the *crop_img* folder, and the recognition label will be saved in *rec_gt.txt*<sup>[4]</sup>.
| Label.txt | The detection label file can be directly used for PPOCR detection model training. After the user saves 5 label results, the file will be automatically saved. It will also be written when the user closes the application or changes the file folder. |
| Label.txt | The detection label file can be directly used for PPOCR detection model training. After the user saves 5 label results, the file will be automatically exported. It will also be written when the user closes the application or changes the file folder. |
| fileState.txt | The picture status file save the image in the current folder that has been manually confirmed by the user. |
| fileState.txt | The picture status file save the image in the current folder that has been manually confirmed by the user. |
| Cache.cach | Cache files to save the results of model recognition. |
| Cache.cach | Cache files to save the results of model recognition. |
| rec_gt.txt | The recognition label file, which can be directly used for PPOCR identification model training, is generated after the user clicks on the menu bar "File"-"Save recognition result". |
| rec_gt.txt | The recognition label file, which can be directly used for PPOCR identification model training, is generated after the user clicks on the menu bar "File"-"Export recognition result". |
| crop_img | The recognition data, generated at the same time with *rec_gt.txt* |
| crop_img | The recognition data, generated at the same time with *rec_gt.txt* |
## Explanation
## Explanation
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- Custom model: The model trained by users can be replaced by modifying PPOCRLabel.py in [PaddleOCR class instantiation](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/PPOCRLabel/PPOCRLabel.py#L110) referring [Custom Model Code](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/doc/doc_en/whl_en.md#use-custom-model)
- Custom model: The model trained by users can be replaced by modifying PPOCRLabel.py in [PaddleOCR class instantiation](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/PPOCRLabel/PPOCRLabel.py#L110) referring [Custom Model Code](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/doc/doc_en/whl_en.md#use-custom-model)
### Save
### Export Label Result
PPOCRLabel supports three ways to save Label.txt
PPOCRLabel supports three ways to export Label.txt
- Automatically save: After selecting "File - Auto Save Label Mode", the program will automatically write the annotations into Label.txt every time the user confirms an image. If this option is not turned on, it will be automatically saved after detecting that the user has manually checked 5 images.
- Automatically export: After selecting "File - Auto Export Label Mode", the program will automatically write the annotations into Label.txt every time the user confirms an image. If this option is not turned on, it will be automatically exported after detecting that the user has manually checked 5 images.
- Manual save: Click "File-Save Marking Results" to manually save the label.
- Manual export: Click "File-Export Marking Results" to manually export the label.
- Close application save
- Close application export
### Export partial recognition results
### Export Partial Recognition Results
For some data that are difficult to recognize, the recognition results will not be exported by **unchecking** the corresponding tags in the recognition results checkbox.
For some data that are difficult to recognize, the recognition results will not be exported by **unchecking** the corresponding tags in the recognition results checkbox.
msg="1. Build and launch using the instructions above.\n" \
msg="1. Build and launch using the instructions above.\n" \
"2. Click 'Open Dir' in Menu/File to select the folder of the picture.\n"\
"2. Click 'Open Dir' in Menu/File to select the folder of the picture.\n"\
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"9. Click 'Delete Image' and the image will be deleted to the recycle bin.\n"\
"9. Click 'Delete Image' and the image will be deleted to the recycle bin.\n"\
"10. Labeling result: After closing the application or switching the file path, the manually saved label will be stored in *Label.txt* under the opened picture folder.\n"\
"10. Labeling result: After closing the application or switching the file path, the manually saved label will be stored in *Label.txt* under the opened picture folder.\n"\
" Click PaddleOCR-Save Recognition Results in the menu bar, the recognition training data of such pictures will be saved in the *crop_img* folder, and the recognition label will be saved in *rec_gt.txt*.\n"
" Click PaddleOCR-Save Recognition Results in the menu bar, the recognition training data of such pictures will be saved in the *crop_img* folder, and the recognition label will be saved in *rec_gt.txt*.\n"
returnmsg
defkeysInfo(lang='en'):
iflang=='ch':
msg="快捷键\t\t\t说明\n" \
"———————————————————————\n"\
"Ctrl + shift + R\t\t对当前图片的所有标记重新识别\n" \
"W\t\t\t新建矩形框\n" \
"Q\t\t\t新建四点框\n" \
"Ctrl + E\t\t编辑所选框标签\n" \
"Ctrl + R\t\t重新识别所选标记\n" \
"Ctrl + C\t\t复制并粘贴选中的标记框\n" \
"Ctrl + 鼠标左键\t\t多选标记框\n" \
"Backspace\t\t删除所选框\n" \
"Ctrl + V\t\t确认本张图片标记\n" \
"Ctrl + Shift + d\t删除本张图片\n" \
"D\t\t\t下一张图片\n" \
"A\t\t\t上一张图片\n" \
"Ctrl++\t\t\t缩小\n" \
"Ctrl--\t\t\t放大\n" \
"↑→↓←\t\t\t移动标记框\n" \
"———————————————————————\n" \
"注:Mac用户Command键替换上述Ctrl键"
else:
msg="Shortcut Keys\t\tDescription\n" \
"———————————————————————\n" \
"Ctrl + shift + R\t\tRe-recognize all the labels\n" \
"\t\t\tof the current image\n" \
"\n"\
"W\t\t\tCreate a rect box\n" \
"Q\t\t\tCreate a four-points box\n" \
"Ctrl + E\t\tEdit label of the selected box\n" \
"Ctrl + R\t\tRe-recognize the selected box\n" \
"Ctrl + C\t\tCopy and paste the selected\n" \
"\t\t\tbox\n" \
"\n"\
"Ctrl + Left Mouse\tMulti select the label\n" \
"Button\t\t\tbox\n" \
"\n"\
"Backspace\t\tDelete the selected box\n" \
"Ctrl + V\t\tCheck image\n" \
"Ctrl + Shift + d\tDelete image\n" \
"D\t\t\tNext image\n" \
"A\t\t\tPrevious image\n" \
"Ctrl++\t\t\tZoom in\n" \
"Ctrl--\t\t\tZoom out\n" \
"↑→↓←\t\t\tMove selected box" \
"———————————————————————\n" \
"Notice:For Mac users, use the 'Command' key instead of the 'Ctrl' key"
- 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.
- PaddleOCR R&D team would like to share the key points of PP-OCRv2, at 20:15 pm on September 8th, [Live Address](https://live.bilibili.com/21689802).
- 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.
- 2021.9.7 release PaddleOCR v2.3, [PP-OCRv2](#PP-OCRv2) is proposed. The inference speed of PP-OCRv2 is 220% higher than that of PP-OCR server in CPU device. The F-score of PP-OCRv2 is 7% higher than that of PP-OCR mobile.
- 2020.9.22 Update the PP-OCR technical article, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941
- 2021.8.3 released PaddleOCR v2.2, add a new structured documents analysis toolkit, i.e., [PP-Structure](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.2/ppstructure/README.md), support layout analysis and table recognition (One-key to export chart images to Excel files).
- 2021.4.8 release end-to-end text recognition algorithm [PGNet](https://www.aaai.org/AAAI21Papers/AAAI-2885.WangP.pdf) which is published in AAAI 2021. Find tutorial [here](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.1/doc/doc_en/pgnet_en.md);release multi language recognition [models](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.1/doc/doc_en/multi_languages_en.md), support more than 80 languages recognition; especically, the performance of [English recognition model](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.1/doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md#English) is Optimized.
-[more](./doc/doc_en/update_en.md)
-[more](./doc/doc_en/update_en.md)
## Features
## Features
- PPOCR series of high-quality pre-trained models, comparable to commercial effects
- PP-OCR series of high-quality pre-trained models, comparable to commercial effects
- Ultra lightweight ppocr_mobile series models: detection (3.0M) + direction classifier (1.4M) + recognition (5.0M) = 9.4M
- Ultra lightweight PP-OCRv2 series models: detection (3.1M) + direction classifier (1.4M) + recognition 8.5M) = 13.0M
- General ppocr_server series models: detection (47.1M) + direction classifier (1.4M) + recognition (94.9M) = 143.4M
- Ultra lightweight PP-OCR mobile series models: detection (3.0M) + direction classifier (1.4M) + recognition (5.0M) = 9.4M
- General PP-OCR server series models: detection (47.1M) + direction classifier (1.4M) + recognition (94.9M) = 143.4M
- Support Chinese, English, and digit recognition, vertical text recognition, and long text recognition
- Support Chinese, English, and digit recognition, vertical text recognition, and long text recognition
- Support multi-language recognition: Korean, Japanese, German, French
- Support multi-language recognition: Korean, Japanese, German, French
- Rich toolkits related to the OCR areas
- Rich toolkits related to the OCR areas
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- Scan the QR code below with your Wechat, you can access to official technical exchange group. Look forward to your participation.
- Scan the QR code below with your Wechat, you can access to official technical exchange group. Look forward to your participation.
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## PP-OCR 2.0 series model list(Update on Dec 15)
## PP-OCR Series Model List(Update on September 8th)
**Note** : Compared with [models 1.1](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md), which are trained with static graph programming paradigm, models 2.0 are the dynamic graph trained version and achieve close performance.
| Model introduction | Model name | Recommended scene | Detection model | Direction classifier | Recognition model |
| Model introduction | Model name | Recommended scene | Detection model | Direction classifier | Recognition model |
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight OCR model (9.4M) | ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_xx | Mobile & server |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_det_train.tar)|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_train.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_rec_pre.tar) |
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight PP-OCRv2 model(11.6M) | ch_PP-OCRv2_xx |Mobile&Server|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/PP-OCRv2/chinese/ch_PP-OCRv2_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/PP-OCRv2/chinese/ch_PP-OCRv2_det_distill_train.tar)| [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_train.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/PP-OCRv2/ch/ch_PP-OCRv2_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/PP-OCRv2/chinese/ch_PP-OCRv2_rec_train.tar)|
| Chinese and English general OCR model (143.4M) | ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_xx | Server |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_det_train.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_traingit.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_rec_pre.tar) |
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight PP-OCR model (9.4M) | ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_xx | Mobile & server |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_det_train.tar)|[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_train.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_rec_pre.tar) |
| Chinese and English general PP-OCR model (143.4M) | ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_xx | Server |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_det_train.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_traingit.tar) |[inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/ch/ch_ppocr_server_v2.0_rec_pre.tar) |
For more model downloads (including multiple languages), please refer to [PP-OCR v2.0 series model downloads](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md).
For more model downloads (including multiple languages), please refer to [PP-OCR series model downloads](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md).
For a new language request, please refer to [Guideline for new language_requests](#language_requests).
For a new language request, please refer to [Guideline for new language_requests](#language_requests).
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-[License](#LICENSE)
-[License](#LICENSE)
-[Contribution](#CONTRIBUTION)
-[Contribution](#CONTRIBUTION)
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## PP-OCRv2 Pipeline
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<imgsrc="./doc/ppocrv2_framework.jpg"width="800">
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[1] PP-OCR is a practical ultra-lightweight OCR system. It is mainly composed of three parts: DB text detection, detection frame correction and CRNN text recognition. The system adopts 19 effective strategies from 8 aspects including backbone network selection and adjustment, prediction head design, data augmentation, learning rate transformation strategy, regularization parameter selection, pre-training model use, and automatic model tailoring and quantization to optimize and slim down the models of each module (as shown in the green box above). The final results are an ultra-lightweight Chinese and English OCR model with an overall size of 3.5M and a 2.8M English digital OCR model. For more details, please refer to the PP-OCR technical article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941).
## PP-OCR Pipeline
[2] On the basis of PP-OCR, PP-OCRv2 is further optimized in five aspects. The detection model adopts CML(Collaborative Mutual Learning) knowledge distillation strategy and CopyPaste data expansion strategy. The recognition model adopts LCNet lightweight backbone network, U-DML knowledge distillation strategy and enhanced CTC loss function improvement (as shown in the red box above), which further improves the inference speed and prediction effect. For more details, please refer to the technical report of PP-OCRv2 (arXiv link is coming soon).
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<imgsrc="./doc/ppocr_framework.png"width="800">
</div>
PP-OCR is a practical ultra-lightweight OCR system. It is mainly composed of three parts: DB text detection[2], detection frame correction and CRNN text recognition[7]. The system adopts 19 effective strategies from 8 aspects including backbone network selection and adjustment, prediction head design, data augmentation, learning rate transformation strategy, regularization parameter selection, pre-training model use, and automatic model tailoring and quantization to optimize and slim down the models of each module. The final results are an ultra-lightweight Chinese and English OCR model with an overall size of 3.5M and a 2.8M English digital OCR model. For more details, please refer to the PP-OCR technical article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941). Besides, The implementation of the FPGM Pruner [8] and PACT quantization [9] is based on [PaddleSlim](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSlim).