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PaddleOCR Quick Start

Note: This tutorial mainly introduces the usage of PP-OCR series models, please refer to PP-Structure Quick Start for the quick use of document analysis related functions.

1. Installation

1.1 Install PaddlePaddle

If you do not have a Python environment, please refer to Environment Preparation.

  • If you have CUDA 9 or CUDA 10 installed on your machine, please run the following command to install

    python3 -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu
  • If you have no available GPU on your machine, please run the following command to install the CPU version

    python3 -m pip install paddlepaddle

For more software version requirements, please refer to the instructions in Installation Document for operation.

1.2 Install PaddleOCR Whl Package

pip install "paddleocr>=2.0.1" # Recommend to use version 2.0.1+
  • For windows users: 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 here.

    Reference: Solve shapely installation on windows

  • For layout analysis users, run the following command to install Layout-Parser

    pip3 install -U https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/whl/layoutparser-0.0.0-py3-none-any.whl

2. Easy-to-Use

2.1 Use by Command Line

PaddleOCR provides a series of test images, click here to download, and then switch to the corresponding directory in the terminal

cd /path/to/ppocr_img

If you do not use the provided test image, you can replace the following --image_dir parameter with the corresponding test image path

2.1.1 Chinese and English Model

  • Detection, direction classification and recognition: set the parameter--use_gpu false to disable the gpu device

    paddleocr --image_dir ./imgs_en/img_12.jpg --use_angle_cls true --lang en --use_gpu false

    Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence

    [[[441.0, 174.0], [1166.0, 176.0], [1165.0, 222.0], [441.0, 221.0]], ('ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.9971134662628174)]
    [[[403.0, 346.0], [1204.0, 348.0], [1204.0, 384.0], [402.0, 383.0]], ('We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9761400818824768)]
    [[[403.0, 396.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 434.0], [402.0, 433.0]], ('contributors who have been involved in the', 0.9791957139968872)]
    ......
  • Only detection: set --rec to false

    paddleocr --image_dir ./imgs_en/img_12.jpg --rec false

    Output will be a list, each item only contains bounding box

    [[397.0, 802.0], [1092.0, 802.0], [1092.0, 841.0], [397.0, 841.0]]
    [[397.0, 750.0], [1211.0, 750.0], [1211.0, 789.0], [397.0, 789.0]]
    [[397.0, 702.0], [1209.0, 698.0], [1209.0, 734.0], [397.0, 738.0]]
    ......
  • Only recognition: set --det to false

    paddleocr --image_dir ./imgs_words_en/word_10.png --det false --lang en

    Output will be a list, each item contains text and recognition confidence

    ['PAIN', 0.9934559464454651]

Version paddleocr uses the PP-OCRv3 model by default(--ocr_version PP-OCRv3). If you want to use other versions, you can set the parameter --ocr_version, the specific version description is as follows:

version name description
PP-OCRv3 support Chinese and English detection and recognition, direction classifier, support multilingual recognition
PP-OCRv2 only supports Chinese and English detection and recognition, direction classifier, multilingual model is not updated
PP-OCR support Chinese and English detection and recognition, direction classifier, support multilingual recognition

If you want to add your own trained model, you can add model links and keys in paddleocr and recompile.

More whl package usage can be found in whl package

2.1.2 Multi-language Model

PaddleOCR currently supports 80 languages, which can be switched by modifying the --lang parameter.

paddleocr --image_dir ./doc/imgs_en/254.jpg --lang=en
The result is a list, each item contains a text box, text and recognition confidence
[[[67.0, 51.0], [327.0, 46.0], [327.0, 74.0], [68.0, 80.0]], ('PHOCAPITAL', 0.9944712519645691)]
[[[72.0, 92.0], [453.0, 84.0], [454.0, 114.0], [73.0, 122.0]], ('107 State Street', 0.9744491577148438)]
[[[69.0, 135.0], [501.0, 125.0], [501.0, 156.0], [70.0, 165.0]], ('Montpelier Vermont', 0.9357033967971802)]
......

Commonly used multilingual abbreviations include

Language Abbreviation Language Abbreviation Language Abbreviation
Chinese & English ch French fr Japanese japan
English en German german Korean korean
Chinese Traditional chinese_cht Italian it Russian ru

A list of all languages and their corresponding abbreviations can be found in Multi-Language Model Tutorial

2.2 Use by Code

2.2.1 Chinese & English Model and Multilingual Model

  • detection, angle classification and recognition:
from paddleocr import PaddleOCR,draw_ocr
# Paddleocr supports Chinese, English, French, German, Korean and Japanese.
# You can set the parameter `lang` as `ch`, `en`, `fr`, `german`, `korean`, `japan`
# to switch the language model in order.
ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True, lang='en') # need to run only once to download and load model into memory
img_path = './imgs_en/img_12.jpg'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, cls=True)
for line in result:
    print(line)


# draw result
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
boxes = [line[0] for line in result]
txts = [line[1][0] for line in result]
scores = [line[1][1] for line in result]
im_show = draw_ocr(image, boxes, txts, scores, font_path='./fonts/simfang.ttf')
im_show = Image.fromarray(im_show)
im_show.save('result.jpg')

Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence

[[[441.0, 174.0], [1166.0, 176.0], [1165.0, 222.0], [441.0, 221.0]], ('ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.9971134662628174)]
  [[[403.0, 346.0], [1204.0, 348.0], [1204.0, 384.0], [402.0, 383.0]], ('We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9761400818824768)]
  [[[403.0, 396.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 434.0], [402.0, 433.0]], ('contributors who have been involved in the', 0.9791957139968872)]
  ......

Visualization of results

3. Summary

In this section, you have mastered the use of PaddleOCR whl package.

PaddleOCR is a rich and practical OCR tool library that get through the whole process of data production, model training, compression, inference and deployment, please refer to the tutorials to start the journey of PaddleOCR.