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1. Install PaddlePaddle

If you don't have a basic Python runtime environment, please refer to Running environment preparation.

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pip install paddlepaddle

Since the GPU needs to be installed and used according to the specific CUDA version, the following only takes the Linux platform, pip installation of NVIDIA GPU, CUDA11.8 as an example. For other platforms, please refer to the instructions in PaddlePaddle official website installation document.

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python -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu==3.0.0b1 -i https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/packages/stable/cu118/

Use by code

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR, draw_ocr

# Paddleocr supports Chinese, English, French, German, Korean and Japanese
# You can set the parameter `lang` as `ch`, `en`, `french`, `german`, `korean`, `japan`
# to switch the language model in order
ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True, lang='en') # need to run only once to download and load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, cls=True)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

# draw result
from PIL import Image
result = result[0]
image = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
boxes = [line[0] for line in result]
txts = [line[1][0] for line in result]
scores = [line[1][1] for line in result]
im_show = draw_ocr(image, boxes, txts, scores, font_path='/path/to/PaddleOCR/doc/fonts/simfang.ttf')
im_show = Image.fromarray(im_show)
im_show.save('result.jpg')

Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence：

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[[[442.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 225.0], [442.0, 225.0]], ['ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.99283075]]
[[[393.0, 340.0], [1207.0, 342.0], [1207.0, 389.0], [393.0, 387.0]], ['We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9357758]]
[[[399.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 433.0], [399.0, 433.0]], ['contributors whohave been involved in the', 0.9592447]]
......

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR,draw_ocr
ocr = PaddleOCR(lang='en') # need to run only once to download and load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, cls=False)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

# draw result
from PIL import Image
result = result[0]
image = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
boxes = [line[0] for line in result]
txts = [line[1][0] for line in result]
scores = [line[1][1] for line in result]
im_show = draw_ocr(image, boxes, txts, scores, font_path='/path/to/PaddleOCR/doc/fonts/simfang.ttf')
im_show = Image.fromarray(im_show)
im_show.save('result.jpg')

Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence：

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[[[442.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 225.0], [442.0, 225.0]], ['ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.99283075]]
[[[393.0, 340.0], [1207.0, 342.0], [1207.0, 389.0], [393.0, 387.0]], ['We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9357758]]
[[[399.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 433.0], [399.0, 433.0]], ['contributors whohave been involved in the', 0.9592447]]
......

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR
ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True, lang='en') # need to run only once to load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, det=False, cls=True)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

Output will be a list, each item contains recognition text and confidence:

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['PAIN', 0.990372]

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR,draw_ocr
ocr = PaddleOCR() # need to run only once to download and load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path,rec=False)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

# draw result
from PIL import Image
result = result[0]
image = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
im_show = draw_ocr(image, result, txts=None, scores=None, font_path='/path/to/PaddleOCR/doc/fonts/simfang.ttf')
im_show = Image.fromarray(im_show)
im_show.save('result.jpg')

Output will be a list, each item only contains bounding box:

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[[756.0, 812.0], [805.0, 812.0], [805.0, 830.0], [756.0, 830.0]]
[[820.0, 803.0], [1085.0, 801.0], [1085.0, 836.0], [820.0, 838.0]]
[[393.0, 801.0], [715.0, 805.0], [715.0, 839.0], [393.0, 836.0]]
......

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR
ocr = PaddleOCR(lang='en') # need to run only once to load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, det=False, cls=False)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

Output will be a list, each item contains recognition text and confidence：

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['PAIN', 0.990372]

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from paddleocr import PaddleOCR
ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True) # need to run only once to load model into memory
img_path = 'PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png'
result = ocr.ocr(img_path, det=False, rec=False, cls=True)
for idx in range(len(result)):
    res = result[idx]
    for line in res:
        print(line)

Output will be a list, each item contains classification result and confidence

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['0', 0.99999964]

Use by command line

Show help information

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paddleocr -h

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg --use_angle_cls true --lang en

Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence

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[[[442.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 225.0], [442.0, 225.0]], ['ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.99283075]]
[[[393.0, 340.0], [1207.0, 342.0], [1207.0, 389.0], [393.0, 387.0]], ['We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9357758]]
[[[399.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 433.0], [399.0, 433.0]], ['contributors whohave been involved in the', 0.9592447]]
......

pdf file is also supported, you can infer the first few pages by using the page_num parameter, the default is 0, which means infer all pages

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paddleocr --image_dir ./xxx.pdf --use_angle_cls true --use_gpu false --page_num 2

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg --lang en

Output will be a list, each item contains bounding box, text and recognition confidence

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[[[442.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 173.0], [1169.0, 225.0], [442.0, 225.0]], ['ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS', 0.99283075]]
[[[393.0, 340.0], [1207.0, 342.0], [1207.0, 389.0], [393.0, 387.0]], ['We would like to thank all the designers and', 0.9357758]]
[[[399.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 398.0], [1204.0, 433.0], [399.0, 433.0]], ['contributors whohave been involved in the', 0.9592447]]
......

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png --use_angle_cls true --det false --lang en

Output will be a list, each item contains text and recognition confidence

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['PAIN', 0.990372]

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_en/img_12.jpg --rec false

Output will be a list, each item only contains bounding box

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[[756.0, 812.0], [805.0, 812.0], [805.0, 830.0], [756.0, 830.0]]
[[820.0, 803.0], [1085.0, 801.0], [1085.0, 836.0], [820.0, 838.0]]
[[393.0, 801.0], [715.0, 805.0], [715.0, 839.0], [393.0, 836.0]]
......

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png --det false --lang en

Output will be a list, each item contains text and recognition confidence

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['PAIN', 0.990372]

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paddleocr --image_dir PaddleOCR/doc/imgs_words_en/word_10.png --use_angle_cls true --det false --rec false

Output will be a list, each item contains classification result and confidence

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['0', 0.99999964]

For more detailed documentation, please go to: PaddleOCR Quick Start

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