1. Introduction to PP-OCRv5 Multilingual Text Recognition

PP-OCRv5 is the latest generation text recognition solution in the PP-OCR series, focusing on multi-scenario and multilingual text recognition tasks. In terms of supported text types, the default configuration of the recognition model can accurately identify five major types: Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese. Additionally, PP-OCRv5 offers multilingual text recognition capabilities covering 37 languages, including Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, and more (for a full list of supported languages and abbreviations, see Section 4). Compared to the previous PP-OCRv3 version, PP-OCRv5 achieves over a 30% improvement in accuracy for multilingual text recognition.

French Recognition Result

German Recognition Result

Korean Recognition Result

Russian Recognition Result

2. Quick Start

You can specify the language for text recognition by using the --lang parameter when running the general OCR pipeline in the command line:

# Use the `--lang` parameter to specify the French recognition model
paddleocr ocr -i https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/general_ocr_french01.png \
    --lang fr \
    --use_doc_orientation_classify False \
    --use_doc_unwarping False \
    --use_textline_orientation False \
    --save_path ./output \
    --device gpu:0 

For explanations of the other command-line parameters, please refer to the Command Line Usage section of the general OCR pipeline documentation. After running, the results will be displayed in the terminal:

{'res': {'input_path': '/root/.paddlex/predict_input/general_ocr_french01.png', 'page_index': None, 'model_settings': {'use_doc_preprocessor': True, 'use_textline_orientation': False}, 'doc_preprocessor_res': {'input_path': None, 'page_index': None, 'model_settings': {'use_doc_orientation_classify': False, 'use_doc_unwarping': False}, 'angle': -1}, 'dt_polys': array([[[119,  23],
        ...,
        [118,  75]],

       ...,

       [[109, 506],
        ...,
        [108, 556]]], dtype=int16), 'text_det_params': {'limit_side_len': 64, 'limit_type': 'min', 'thresh': 0.3, 'max_side_limit': 4000, 'box_thresh': 0.6, 'unclip_ratio': 1.5}, 'text_type': 'general', 'textline_orientation_angles': array([-1, ..., -1]), 'text_rec_score_thresh': 0.0, 'rec_texts': ['mifere; la profpérité & les fuccès ac-', 'compagnent l’homme induftrieux.', 'Quel eft celui qui a acquis des ri-', 'cheffes, qui eft devenu puiffant, qui', 's’eft couvert de gloire, dont l’éloge', 'retentit par-tout, qui fiege au confeil', "du Roi? C'eft celui qui bannit la pa-", "reffe de fa maifon, & qui a dit à l'oifi-", 'veté : tu es mon ennemie.'], 'rec_scores': array([0.98409832, ..., 0.98091048]), 'rec_polys': array([[[119,  23],
        ...,
        [118,  75]],

       ...,

       [[109, 506],
        ...,
        [108, 556]]], dtype=int16), 'rec_boxes': array([[118, ...,  81],
       ...,
       [108, ..., 562]], dtype=int16)}}

If you specify save_path, the visualization results will be saved to the specified path. An example of the visualized result is shown below:

You can also use Python code to specify the recognition model for a particular language when initializing the general OCR pipeline via the lang parameter:

from paddleocr import PaddleOCR

ocr = PaddleOCR(
    lang="fr", # Specify French recognition model with the lang parameter
    use_doc_orientation_classify=False, # Disable document orientation classification model
    use_doc_unwarping=False, # Disable text image unwarping model
    use_textline_orientation=False, # Disable text line orientation classification model
)
result = ocr.predict("https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/general_ocr_french01.png")
for res in result:
    res.print()
    res.save_to_img("output")
    res.save_to_json("output")

For more details on the PaddleOCR class parameters, please refer to the Python Scripting Integration section of the general OCR pipeline documentation.

3. Performance Comparison

Model	Download Link	Korean Dataset Accuracy (%)
korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	88.0
korean_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	23.0

Model	Download Link	Latin Script Language Dataset Accuracy (%)
latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	84.7
latin_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	37.9

Model	Download Link	East Slavic Language Dataset Accuracy (%)
eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	81.6
cyrillic_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec	Inference Model/Pretrained Model	50.2

Notes: - Korean Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing 5,007 Korean text images. - Latin Script Language Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing 3,111 images of Latin script languages. - East Slavic Language Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing a total of 7,031 text images in Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian.

4. Supported Languages and Abbreviations

Language	Description	Abbreviation		Language	Description	Abbreviation
Chinese	Chinese & English	ch		Hungarian	Hungarian	hu
English	English	en		Serbian (latin)	Serbian (latin)	rs_latin
French	French	fr		Indonesian	Indonesian	id
German	German	de		Occitan	Occitan	oc
Japanese	Japanese	japan		Icelandic	Icelandic	is
Korean	Korean	korean		Lithuanian	Lithuanian	lt
Traditional Chinese	Chinese Traditional	chinese_cht		Maori	Maori	mi
Afrikaans	Afrikaans	af		Malay	Malay	ms
Italian	Italian	it		Dutch	Dutch	nl
Spanish	Spanish	es		Norwegian	Norwegian	no
Bosnian	Bosnian	bs		Polish	Polish	pl
Portuguese	Portuguese	pt		Slovak	Slovak	sk
Czech	Czech	cs		Slovenian	Slovenian	sl
Welsh	Welsh	cy		Albanian	Albanian	sq
Danish	Danish	da		Swedish	Swedish	sv
Estonian	Estonian	et		Swahili	Swahili	sw
Irish	Irish	ga		Tagalog	Tagalog	tl
Croatian	Croatian	hr		Turkish	Turkish	tr
Uzbek	Uzbek	uz		Latin	Latin	la
Russian	Russian	ru		Belarusian	Belarusian	be
Ukrainian	Ukrainian	uk

5. Models and Their Supported Languages

Model	Supported Languages
korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	Korean
latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	English, French, German, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Bosnian, Portuguese, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Estonian, Irish, Croatian, Uzbek, Hungarian, Serbian (Latin), Indonesian, Occitan, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Maori, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, Latin
eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec	Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

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