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 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)
...
...
@@ -77,17 +78,17 @@ For a new language request, please refer to [Guideline for new language_requests
@@ -177,3 +180,5 @@ We welcome all the contributions to PaddleOCR and appreciate for your feedback v
- 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。