Generally, a more complex model would achive better performance in the task, but it also leads to some redundancy in the model.
Quantization is a technique that reduces this redundancy by reducing the full precision data to a fixed number,
so as to reduce model calculation complexity and improve model inference performance.
This example uses PaddleSlim provided [APIs of Quantization](https://paddlepaddle.github.io/PaddleSlim/api/quantization_api/) to compress the OCR model.
It is recommended that you could understand following pages before reading this example：
-[The training strategy of OCR model](../../../doc/doc_en/quickstart_en.md)
Quantization is mostly suitable for the deployment of lightweight models on mobile terminals.
After training, if you want to further compress the model size and accelerate the prediction, you can use quantization methods to compress the model according to the following steps.
PaddleOCR provides a series of trained [models](../../../doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md).
If the model to be quantified is not in the list, you need to follow the [Regular Training](../../../doc/doc_en/quickstart_en.md) method to get the trained model.
### 3. Quant-Aware Training
Quantization training includes offline quantization training and online quantization training.
Online quantization training is more effective. It is necessary to load the pre-training model.
After the quantization strategy is defined, the model can be quantified.
The code for quantization training is located in `slim/quantization/quant.py`. For example, to train a detection model, the training instructions are as follows:
**Note：** Additional data, like icdar2013, icdar2017, COCO-Text, ArT, was added to the model training of SAST. Download English public dataset in organized format used by PaddleOCR from [Baidu Drive](https://pan.baidu.com/s/12cPnZcVuV1zn5DOd4mqjVw)(download code: 2bpi).
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```
" Image file name Image annotation "
train_data/word_001.jpg 0
train_data/word_002.jpg 180
train/word_001.jpg 0
train/word_002.jpg 180
```
The final training set should have the following file structure:
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### TRAINING
Write the prepared txt file and image folder path into the configuration file under the `Train/Eval.dataset.label_file_list` and `Train/Eval.dataset.data_dir` fields, the absolute path of the image consists of the `Train/Eval.dataset.data_dir` field and the image name recorded in the txt file.
PaddleOCR provides training scripts, evaluation scripts, and prediction scripts.
