PaddleOCR aims to create rich, leading, and practical OCR tools that help users train better models and apply them into practice.
PaddleOCR aims to create multilingual, awesome, leading, and practical OCR tools that help users train better models and apply them into practice.
**Recent updates**
- 2020.11.25 Update a new data annotation tool, i.e., [PPOCRLabel](./PPOCRLabel/README_en.md), which is helpful to improve the labeling efficiency. Moreover, the labeling results can be used in training of the PP-OCR system directly.
- 2020.9.22 Update the PP-OCR technical article, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941
- 2020.9.19 Update the ultra lightweight compressed ppocr_mobile_slim series models, the overall model size is 3.5M (see [PP-OCR Pipline](#PP-OCR-Pipline)), suitable for mobile deployment. [Model Downloads](#Supported-Chinese-model-list)
- 2020.9.19 Update the ultra lightweight compressed ppocr_mobile_slim series models, the overall model size is 3.5M (see [PP-OCR Pipeline](#PP-OCR-Pipeline)), suitable for mobile deployment. [Model Downloads](#Supported-Chinese-model-list)
- 2020.9.17 Update the ultra lightweight ppocr_mobile series and general ppocr_server series Chinese and English ocr models, which are comparable to commercial effects. [Model Downloads](#Supported-Chinese-model-list)
- 2020.9.17 update [English recognition model](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md#english-recognition-model) and [Multilingual recognition model](doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md#english-recognition-model), `German`, `French`, `Japanese` and `Korean` have been supported. Models for more languages will continue to be updated.
- 2020.8.24 Support the use of PaddleOCR through whl package installation，pelease refer [PaddleOCR Package](./doc/doc_en/whl_en.md)
- 2020.9.17 update [English recognition model](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md#english-recognition-model) and [Multilingual recognition model](doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md#english-recognition-model), `English`, `Chinese`, `German`, `French`, `Japanese` and `Korean` have been supported. Models for more languages will continue to be updated.
- 2020.8.24 Support the use of PaddleOCR through whl package installation，please refer [PaddleOCR Package](./doc/doc_en/whl_en.md)
- 2020.8.21 Update the replay and PPT of the live lesson at Bilibili on August 18, lesson 2, easy to learn and use OCR tool spree. [Get Address](https://aistudio.baidu.com/aistudio/education/group/info/1519)
-[more](./doc/doc_en/update_en.md)
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The above pictures are the visualizations of the general ppocr_server model. For more effect pictures, please see [More visualizations](./doc/doc_en/visualization_en.md).
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## Community
- Scan the QR code below with your Wechat, you can access to official technical exchange group. Look forward to your participation.
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight OCR model (8.1M) | ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_xx | Mobile & server | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/det/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/det/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_det_train.tar) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_train.tar) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/rec/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/rec/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_rec_pre.tar) |
| Chinese and English general OCR model (155.1M) | ch_ppocr_server_v1.1_xx | Server | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/server/det/ch_ppocr_server_v1.1_det_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/server/det/ch_ppocr_server_v1.1_det_train.tar) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_train.tar) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/server/rec/ch_ppocr_server_v1.1_rec_infer.tar) / [pre-trained model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/server/rec/ch_ppocr_server_v1.1_rec_pre.tar) |
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight compressed OCR model (3.5M) | ch_ppocr_mobile_slim_v1.1_xx | Mobile | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile-slim/det/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_det_prune_infer.tar) / [slim model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/lite/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_det_prune_opt.nb) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_quant_infer.tar) / [slim model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/lite/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_cls_quant_opt.nb) | [inference model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile-slim/rec/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_rec_quant_infer.tar) / [slim model](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/20-09-22/mobile/lite/ch_ppocr_mobile_v1.1_rec_quant_opt.nb) |
| Chinese and English ultra-lightweight OCR model (8.1M) | 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 OCR model (143M) | 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 v1.1 series model downloads](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md)
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 a new language request, please refer to [Guideline for new language_requests](#language_requests).
If you want to request a new language support, a PR with 2 following files are needed：
1. In folder [ppocr/utils/dict](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/develop/ppocr/utils/dict),
it is necessary to submit the dict text to this path and name it with `{language}_dict.txt` that contains a list of all characters. Please see the format example from other files in that folder.
2. In folder [ppocr/utils/corpus](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/develop/ppocr/utils/corpus),
it is necessary to submit the corpus to this path and name it with `{language}_corpus.txt` that contains a list of words in your language.
Maybe, 50000 words per language is necessary at least.
Of course, the more, the better.
If your language has unique elements, please tell me in advance within any way, such as useful links, wikipedia and so on.
More details, please refer to [Multilingual OCR Development Plan](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues/1048).
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## License
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- Thanks [authorfu](https://github.com/authorfu) for contributing Android demo and [xiadeye](https://github.com/xiadeye) contributing iOS demo, respectively.
- Thanks [BeyondYourself](https://github.com/BeyondYourself) for contributing many great suggestions and simplifying part of the code style.
- Thanks [tangmq](https://gitee.com/tangmq) for contributing Dockerized deployment services to PaddleOCR and supporting the rapid release of callable Restful API services.
- Thanks [lijinhan](https://github.com/lijinhan) for contributing a new way, i.e., java SpringBoot, to achieve the request for the Hubserving deployment.
- Thanks [Mejans](https://github.com/Mejans) for contributing the Occitan corpus and character set.
- Thanks [LKKlein](https://github.com/LKKlein) for contributing a new deploying package with the Golang program language.
- Thanks [Evezerest](https://github.com/Evezerest), [ninetailskim](https://github.com/ninetailskim), [edencfc](https://github.com/edencfc), [BeyondYourself](https://github.com/BeyondYourself) and [1084667371](https://github.com/1084667371) for contributing a new data annotation tool, i.e., PPOCRLabel。
