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**install paddleocr**
ref to [paddleocr whl doc](../doc/doc_en/whl_en.md)
install by pypi
```bash
cd PaddleOCR
pip install"paddleocr>=2.2"# # Recommend to use version 2.2
```
build own whl package and install
```bash
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
pip3 install dist/paddleocr-x.x.x-py3-none-any.whl # x.x.x is the version of paddleocr