PaddleOCR supports two data formats: `LMDB` is used to train public data and evaluation algorithms; `general data` is used to train your own data:
Please organize the dataset as follows:
The default storage path for training data is `PaddleOCR/train_data`, if you already have a dataset on your disk, just create a soft link to the dataset directory:
If you do not have a dataset locally, you can download it on the official website [icdar2015](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4&com=downloads). Also refer to [DTRB](https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark#download-lmdb-dataset-for-traininig-and-evaluation-from-here)，download the lmdb format dataset required for benchmark
If you want to reproduce the paper indicators of SRN, you need to download offline [augmented data](https://pan.baidu.com/s/1-HSZ-ZVdqBF2HaBZ5pRAKA), extraction code: y3ry. The augmented data is obtained by rotation and perturbation of mjsynth and synthtext. Please unzip the data to {your_path}/PaddleOCR/train_data/data_lmdb_Release/training/path.
The final training set should have the following file structure:
```
|-train_data
|-ic15_data
|- rec_gt_train.txt
|- train
|- word_001.png
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
- Test set
Similar to the training set, the test set also needs to be provided a folder containing all images (test) and a rec_gt_test.txt. The structure of the test set is as follows:
```
|-train_data
|-ic15_data
|- rec_gt_test.txt
|- test
|- word_001.jpg
|- word_002.jpg
|- word_003.jpg
| ...
```
- Dictionary
Finally, a dictionary ({word_dict_name}.txt) needs to be provided so that when the model is trained, all the characters that appear can be mapped to the dictionary index.
Therefore, the dictionary needs to contain all the characters that you want to be recognized correctly. {word_dict_name}.txt needs to be written in the following format and saved in the `utf-8` encoding format:
```
l
d
a
d
r
n
```
In `word_dict.txt`, there is a single word in each line, which maps characters and numeric indexes together, e.g "and" will be mapped to [2 5 1]
`ppocr/utils/ppocr_keys_v1.txt` is a Chinese dictionary with 6623 characters.
`ppocr/utils/ic15_dict.txt` is an English dictionary with 36 characters.
You can use them if needed.
To customize the dict file, please modify the `character_dict_path` field in `configs/rec/rec_icdar15_train.yml` and set `character_type` to `ch`.
If you need to customize dic file, please add character_dict_path field in configs/rec/rec_icdar15_train.yml to point to your dictionary path. And set character_type to ch.
- Add space category
If you want to support the recognition of the `space` category, please set the `use_space_char` field in the yml file to `true`.
**Note: use_space_char only takes effect when character_type=ch**
PaddleOCR provides training scripts, evaluation scripts, and prediction scripts. In this section, the CRNN recognition model will be used as an example:
First download the pretrain model, you can download the trained model to finetune on the icdar2015 data:
PaddleOCR provides a variety of data augmentation methods. If you want to add disturbance during training, please set `distort: true` in the configuration file.
The default perturbation methods are: cvtColor, blur, jitter, Gasuss noise, random crop, perspective, color reverse.
Each disturbance method is selected with a 50% probability during the training process. For specific code implementation, please refer to: [img_tools.py](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/ppocr/data/rec/img_tools.py)
PaddleOCR supports alternating training and evaluation. You can modify `eval_batch_step` in `configs/rec/rec_icdar15_train.yml` to set the evaluation frequency. By default, it is evaluated every 500 iter and the best acc model is saved under `output/rec_CRNN/best_accuracy` during the evaluation process.
If the evaluation set is large, the test will be time-consuming. It is recommended to reduce the number of evaluations, or evaluate after training.
* Tip: You can use the `-c` parameter to select multiple model configurations under the `configs/rec/` path for training. The recognition algorithms supported by PaddleOCR are:
| Configuration file | Algorithm | backbone | trans | seq | pred |
For training Chinese data, it is recommended to use `rec_chinese_lite_train.yml`. If you want to try the result of other algorithms on the Chinese data set, please refer to the following instructions to modify the configuration file:
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Take `rec_mv3_none_none_ctc.yml` as an example:
```
Global:
...
# Modify image_shape to fit long text
image_shape: [3, 32, 320]
...
# Modify character type
character_type: ch
# Add a custom dictionary, such as modify the dictionary, please point the path to the new dictionary
The configuration file used for prediction must be consistent with the training. For example, you completed the training of the Chinese model with `python3 tools/train.py -c configs/rec/rec_chinese_lite_train.yml`, you can use the following command to predict the Chinese model:
