The image annotation after **json.dumps()** encoding is a list containing multiple dictionaries.
The `points` in the dictionary represent the coordinates (x, y) of the four points of the text box, arranged clockwise from the point at the upper left corner.
`transcription` represents the text of the current text box. **When its content is "###" it means that the text box is invalid and will be skipped during training.**
If you want to train PaddleOCR on other datasets, please build the annotation file according to the above format.
### 1.2 Public dataset
| dataset | Image download link | PaddleOCR format annotation download link |
| ctw1500 | https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dataset/ctw1500.zip | Included in the downloaded image zip |
| total text | https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dataset/total_text.tar | Included in the downloaded image zip |
| total text | https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dataset/total_text.tar | Included in the downloaded image zip |
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#### 1.1 ICDAR 2015
#### 1.2.1 ICDAR 2015
The icdar2015 dataset contains train set which has 1000 images obtained with wearable cameras and test set which has 500 images obtained with wearable cameras. The icdar2015 dataset can be downloaded from the link in the table above. Registration is required for downloading.
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Decompress the downloaded dataset to the working directory, assuming it is decompressed under PaddleOCR/train_data/. Then download the PPOCR format annotation file from the table above.
Decompress the downloaded dataset to the working directory, assuming it is decompressed under PaddleOCR/train_data/. Then download the PaddleOCR format annotation file from the table above.
PaddleOCR also provides a data format conversion script, which can convert the official website label to the PPOCR format. The data conversion tool is in `ppocr/utils/gen_label.py`, here is the training set as an example:
PaddleOCR also provides a data format conversion script, which can convert the official website label to the PaddleOCR format. The data conversion tool is in `ppocr/utils/gen_label.py`, here is the training set as an example:
```
# Convert the label file downloaded from the official website to train_icdar2015_label.txt
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```
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#### 2. text recognition
## 2. Text recognition
### 2.1 PaddleOCR text recognition format annotation
The text recognition algorithm in PaddleOCR supports two data formats:
-`lmdb` is used to train data sets stored in lmdb format, use [lmdb_dataset.py](../../../ppocr/data/lmdb_dataset.py) to load;
-`通用数据` is used to train data sets stored in text files, use [simple_dataset.py](../../../ppocr/data/simple_dataset.py) to load.
If you want to use your own data for training, please refer to the following to organize your data.
| dataset | Image download link | PPOCR format annotation download link |
- Training set
It is recommended to put the training images in the same folder, and use a txt file (rec_gt_train.txt) to store the image path and label. The contents of the txt file are as follows:
* Note: by default, the image path and image label are split with \t, if you use other methods to split, it will cause training error
```
" Image file name Image annotation "
train_data/rec/train/word_001.jpg 简单可依赖
train_data/rec/train/word_002.jpg 用科技让复杂的世界更简单
...
```
The final training set should have the following file structure:
```
|-train_data
|-rec
|- rec_gt_train.txt
|- train
|- word_001.png
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
- Test set
Similar to the training set, the test set also needs to be provided a folder containing all images (test) and a rec_gt_test.txt. The structure of the test set is as follows:
```
|-train_data
|-rec
|-ic15_data
|- rec_gt_test.txt
|- test
|- word_001.jpg
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
### 2.2 Public dataset
| dataset | Image download link | PaddleOCR format annotation download link |
|---|---|---|
| en benchmark(MJ, SJ, IIIT, SVT, IC03, IC13, IC15, SVTP, and CUTE.) | [DTRB](https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark#download-lmdb-dataset-for-traininig-and-evaluation-from-here) | LMDB format, which can be loaded directly with [lmdb_dataset.py](../../../ppocr/data/lmdb_dataset.py) |
| Multilingual datasets |[Baidu network disk](https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bS_u207Rm7YbY33wOECKDA) Extraction code: frgi <br>[google drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cSWX7wXSy4G0tbKJ0d9PuIaiwRLHpjA/view) | Included in the downloaded image zip |
#### 2.1 ICDAR2015
The ICDAR2015 dataset can be downloaded from the link in the table above for quick validation. The lmdb format dataset required by en benchmark can also be downloaded from the table above.
Then download the PaddleOCR format annotation file from the table above.
PaddleOCR also provides a data format conversion script, which can convert the ICDAR official website label to the data format supported by PaddleOCR. The data conversion tool is in `ppocr/utils/gen_label.py`, here is the training set as an example:
```
# Convert the label file downloaded from the official website to rec_gt_label.txt
The data format is as follows, (a) is the original picture, (b) is the Ground Truth text file corresponding to each picture:
## 3. 数据存放路径
The default storage path for PaddleOCR training data is `PaddleOCR/train_data`, if you already have a dataset on your disk, just create a soft link to the dataset directory:
The image annotation after **json.dumps()** encoding is a list containing multiple dictionaries.
The `points` in the dictionary represent the coordinates (x, y) of the four points of the text box, arranged clockwise from the point at the upper left corner.
`transcription` represents the text of the current text box. **When its content is "###" it means that the text box is invalid and will be skipped during training.**
If you want to train PaddleOCR on other datasets, please build the annotation file according to the above format.
To prepare datasets, refer to [ocr_datasets](./dataset/ocr_datasets_en.md) .
-[2.4 Training with Knowledge Distillation](#24-training-with-knowledge-distillation)
-[3. Evalution](#3-evalution)
-[4. Prediction](#4-prediction)
-[5. Convert to Inference Model](#5-convert-to-inference-model)
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## 1. Data Preparation
### 1.1 DataSet Preparation
PaddleOCR supports two data formats:
-`LMDB` is used to train data sets stored in lmdb format（LMDBDataSet）;
-`general data` is used to train data sets stored in text files（SimpleDataSet）:
Please organize the dataset as follows:
The default storage path for training data is `PaddleOCR/train_data`, if you already have a dataset on your disk, just create a soft link to the dataset directory:
If you want to use your own data for training, please refer to the following to organize your data.
- Training set
It is recommended to put the training images in the same folder, and use a txt file (rec_gt_train.txt) to store the image path and label. The contents of the txt file are as follows:
* Note: by default, the image path and image label are split with \t, if you use other methods to split, it will cause training error
```
" Image file name Image annotation "
train_data/rec/train/word_001.jpg 简单可依赖
train_data/rec/train/word_002.jpg 用科技让复杂的世界更简单
...
```
The final training set should have the following file structure:
```
|-train_data
|-rec
|- rec_gt_train.txt
|- train
|- word_001.png
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
- Test set
Similar to the training set, the test set also needs to be provided a folder containing all images (test) and a rec_gt_test.txt. The structure of the test set is as follows:
```
|-train_data
|-rec
|-ic15_data
|- rec_gt_test.txt
|- test
|- word_001.jpg
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
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### 1.2 Dataset Download
- ICDAR2015
If you do not have a dataset locally, you can download it on the official website [icdar2015](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4&com=downloads).
Also refer to [DTRB](https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark#download-lmdb-dataset-for-traininig-and-evaluation-from-here) ，download the lmdb format dataset required for benchmark
To prepare datasets, refer to [ocr_datasets](./dataset/ocr_datasets.md) .
If you want to reproduce the paper SAR, you need to download extra dataset [SynthAdd](https://pan.baidu.com/share/init?surl=uV0LtoNmcxbO-0YA7Ch4dg), extraction code: 627x. Besides, icdar2013, icdar2015, cocotext, IIIT5k datasets are also used to train. For specific details, please refer to the paper SAR.
PaddleOCR provides label files for training the icdar2015 dataset, which can be downloaded in the following ways:
The data format is as follows, (a) is the original picture, (b) is the Ground Truth text file corresponding to each picture:
- Multilingual dataset
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 using the following two methods.
Finally, a dictionary ({word_dict_name}.txt) needs to be provided so that when the model is trained, all the characters that appear can be mapped to the dictionary index.
