The inference model (the model saved by `paddle.jit.save`) is generally a solidified model saved after the model training is completed, and is mostly used to give prediction in deployment.
Compared with the checkpoints model, the inference model will additionally save the structural information of the model. It has superior performance in predicting in deployment and accelerating inferencing, is flexible and convenient, and is suitable for integration with actual systems. For more details, please refer to the document [Classification Framework](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleClas/blob/master/docs/zh_CN/extension/paddle_inference.md).
Next, we first introduce how to convert a trained model into an inference model, and then we will introduce text detection, text recognition, angle class, and the concatenation of them based on inference model.
The above model is a DB algorithm trained with MobileNetV3 as the backbone. To convert the trained model into an inference model, just run the following command:
When converting to an inference model, the configuration file used is the same as the configuration file used during training. In addition, you also need to set the `Global.pretrained_model` parameter in the configuration file.
If you have a model trained on your own dataset with a different dictionary file, please make sure that you modify the `character_dict_path` in the configuration file to your dictionary file path.
The following will introduce the lightweight Chinese detection model inference, DB text detection model inference and EAST text detection model inference. The default configuration is based on the inference setting of the DB text detection model.
Because EAST and DB algorithms are very different, when inference, it is necessary to **adapt the EAST text detection algorithm by passing in corresponding parameters**.
The visual text detection results are saved to the ./inference_results folder by default, and the name of the result file is prefixed with'det_res'. Examples of results are as follows:
The size of the image is limited by the parameters `limit_type` and `det_limit_side_len`, `limit_type=max` is to limit the length of the long side <`det_limit_side_len`, and `limit_type=min` is to limit the length of the short side>`det_limit_side_len`,
When the picture does not meet the restriction conditions (for `limit_type=max`and long side >`det_limit_side_len` or for `min` and short side <`det_limit_side_len`), the image will be scaled proportionally.
This parameter is set to `limit_type='max', det_max_side_len=960` by default. If the resolution of the input picture is relatively large, and you want to use a larger resolution prediction, you can execute the following command:
First, convert the model saved in the DB text detection training process into an inference model. Taking the model based on the Resnet50_vd backbone network and trained on the ICDAR2015 English dataset as an example ([model download link](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/en/det_r50_vd_db_v2.0_train.tar)), you can use the following command to convert:
The visualized text detection results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default, and the name of the result file is prefixed with 'det_res'. Examples of results are as follows:
**Note**: Since the ICDAR2015 dataset has only 1,000 training images, mainly for English scenes, the above model has very poor detection result on Chinese text images.
First, convert the model saved in the EAST text detection training process into an inference model. Taking the model based on the Resnet50_vd backbone network and trained on the ICDAR2015 English dataset as an example ([model download link (coming soon)](link)), you can use the following command to convert:
The visualized text detection results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default, and the name of the result file is prefixed with 'det_res'. Examples of results are as follows:
**Note**: EAST post-processing locality aware NMS has two versions: Python and C++. The speed of C++ version is obviously faster than that of Python version. Due to the compilation version problem of NMS of C++ version, C++ version NMS will be called only in Python 3.5 environment, and python version NMS will be called in other cases.
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### 4. SAST TEXT DETECTION MODEL INFERENCE
#### (1). Quadrangle text detection model (ICDAR2015)
First, convert the model saved in the SAST text detection training process into an inference model. Taking the model based on the Resnet50_vd backbone network and trained on the ICDAR2015 English dataset as an example ([model download link (coming soon)](link)), you can use the following command to convert:
The visualized text detection results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default, and the name of the result file is prefixed with 'det_res'. Examples of results are as follows:
First, convert the model saved in the SAST text detection training process into an inference model. Taking the model based on the Resnet50_vd backbone network and trained on the Total-Text English dataset as an example ([model download link (coming soon)](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/SAST/sast_r50_vd_total_text.tar)), you can use the following command to convert:
**For SAST curved text detection model inference, you need to set the parameter `--det_algorithm="SAST"` and `--det_sast_polygon=True`**, run the following command:
The visualized text detection results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default, and the name of the result file is prefixed with 'det_res'. Examples of results are as follows:
**Note**: SAST post-processing locality aware NMS has two versions: Python and C++. The speed of C++ version is obviously faster than that of Python version. Due to the compilation version problem of NMS of C++ version, C++ version NMS will be called only in Python 3.5 environment, and python version NMS will be called in other cases.
The following will introduce the lightweight Chinese recognition model inference, other CTC-based and Attention-based text recognition models inference. For Chinese text recognition, it is recommended to choose the recognition model based on CTC loss. In practice, it is also found that the result of the model based on Attention loss is not as good as the one based on CTC loss. In addition, if the characters dictionary is modified during training, make sure that you use the same characters set during inferencing. Please check below for details.
Taking CRNN as an example, we introduce the recognition model inference based on CTC loss. Rosetta and Star-Net are used in a similar way, No need to set the recognition algorithm parameter rec_algorithm.
First, convert the model saved in the CRNN text recognition training process into an inference model. Taking the model based on Resnet34_vd backbone network, using MJSynth and SynthText (two English text recognition synthetic datasets) for training, as an example ([model download address](https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/dygraph_v2.0/en/rec_r34_vd_none_bilstm_ctc_v2.0_train.tar)). It can be converted as follow:
**Note**：Since the above model refers to [DTRB](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01906) text recognition training and evaluation process, it is different from the training of lightweight Chinese recognition model in two aspects:
- The image resolution used in training is different: the image resolution used in training the above model is [3，32，100], while during our Chinese model training, in order to ensure the recognition effect of long text, the image resolution used in training is [3, 32, 320]. The default shape parameter of the inference stage is the image resolution used in training phase, that is [3, 32, 320]. Therefore, when running inference of the above English model here, you need to set the shape of the recognition image through the parameter `rec_image_shape`.
- Character list: the experiment in the DTRB paper is only for 26 lowercase English characters and 10 numbers, a total of 36 characters. All upper and lower case characters are converted to lower case characters, and characters not in the above list are ignored and considered as spaces. Therefore, no characters dictionary file is used here, but a dictionary is generated by the below command. Therefore, the parameter `rec_char_type` needs to be set during inference, which is specified as "en" in English.
If the text dictionary is modified during training, when using the inference model to predict, you need to specify the dictionary path used by `--rec_char_dict_path`, and set `rec_char_type=ch`
If you need to predict other language models, when using inference model prediction, you need to specify the dictionary path used by `--rec_char_dict_path`. At the same time, in order to get the correct visualization results,
You need to specify the visual font path through `--vis_font_path`. There are small language fonts provided by default under the `doc/` path, such as Korean recognition:
When performing prediction, you need to specify the path of a single image or a folder of images through the parameter `image_dir`, the parameter `det_model_dir` specifies the path to detect the inference model, the parameter `cls_model_dir` specifies the path to angle classification inference model and the parameter `rec_model_dir` specifies the path to identify the inference model. The parameter `use_angle_cls` is used to control whether to enable the angle classification model.The visualized recognition results are saved to the `./inference_results` folder by default.
If you want to try other detection algorithms or recognition algorithms, please refer to the above text detection model inference and text recognition model inference, update the corresponding configuration and model.
**Note: due to the limitation of rotation logic of detected box, SAST curved text detection model (using the parameter `det_sast_polygon=True`) is not supported for model combination yet.**
The following command uses the combination of the EAST text detection and STAR-Net text recognition:
