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Related Links
- Official site with online demo: https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/
- Installation Guide: https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/install/
- Tutorial: https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/tutorial/
Installation
Install python3 and pip3
sudo apt install python3-pip
Install EasyOCR, this will take a long time for downloading around 1GiB files
q3w:~$ pip install easyocr
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
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Usage
It will download the trained data in the first run
$ python3
Python 3.10.6 (main, Aug 10 2022, 11:40:04) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import easyocr
>>> reader = easyocr.Reader(['ch_sim','en'])
CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU.
Downloading detection model, please wait. This may take several minutes depending upon your network connection.
Progress: |██████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% CompleteDownloading recognition model, please wait. This may take several minutes depending upon your network connection.
Progress: |██████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% Complete>>>
Recognize
# 带坐标
result = reader.readtext('Documents/fp01.png')
# 不带坐标, 合并相邻text box
result = reader.readtext('Documents/tu01.jpg', detail = 0, paragraph=True)
print(result)
Performance
- Speed is slow when using CPU
- The correct rate is good when extracting text from e-print or screenshot pictures
- The correct rate drops a lot when handling the photos taken by a cellphone