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 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
python gen_label.py --mode="det" --root_path="/path/to/icdar_c4_train_imgs/" \
--input_path="/path/to/ch4_training_localization_transcription_gt" \
--output_label="/path/to/train_icdar2015_label.txt"
```
After decompressing the data set and downloading the annotation file, PaddleOCR/train_data/ has two folders and two files, which are:
```
/PaddleOCR/train_data/icdar2015/text_localization/
└─ icdar_c4_train_imgs/ Training data of icdar dataset
└─ ch4_test_images/ Testing data of icdar dataset
└─ train_icdar2015_label.txt Training annotation of icdar dataset
└─ test_icdar2015_label.txt Test annotation of icdar dataset
```
## 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;
- `common dataset` 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.
- 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) |
|ICDAR 2015| http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4&com=downloads | [train](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dataset/rec_gt_train.txt)/ [test](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dataset/rec_gt_test.txt) |
| Multilingual datasets |[Baidu network disk](https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bS_u207Rm7YbY33wOECKDA) Extraction code: frgi
[google drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cSWX7wXSy4G0tbKJ0d9PuIaiwRLHpjA/view) | Included in the downloaded image zip |
#### 2.1 ICDAR 2015
The ICDAR 2015 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
python gen_label.py --mode="rec" --input_path="{path/of/origin/label}" --output_label="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. Data storage path
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:
```
# linux and mac os
ln -sf