PaddleOCR/deploy/lite

Tutorial of PaddleOCR Mobile deployment

This tutorial will introduce how to use paddle-lite to deploy paddleOCR ultra-lightweight Chinese and English detection models on mobile phones.

addle Lite is a lightweight inference engine for PaddlePaddle. It provides efficient inference capabilities for mobile phones and IOTs, and extensively integrates cross-platform hardware to provide lightweight deployment solutions for end-side deployment issues.

1. Preparation

• Computer (for Compiling Paddle Lite)
• Mobile phone (arm7 or arm8)

2. Build ncnn library

build for Docker build for Linux build for MAC OS build for windows

3. Download prebuild library for android and ios

Platform	Prebuild library Download Link
Android	arm7 / arm8
IOS	arm7 / arm8
x86(Linux)	预测库

The structure of the prediction library is as follows:

inference_lite_lib.android.armv8/
|-- cxx                                        C++ prebuild library
|   |-- include                                C++
|   |   |-- paddle_api.h
|   |   |-- paddle_image_preprocess.h
|   |   |-- paddle_lite_factory_helper.h
|   |   |-- paddle_place.h
|   |   |-- paddle_use_kernels.h
|   |   |-- paddle_use_ops.h
|   |   `-- paddle_use_passes.h
|   `-- lib  
|       |-- libpaddle_api_light_bundled.a             C++ static library
|       `-- libpaddle_light_api_shared.so             C++ dynamic library
|-- java                                     Java predict library
|   |-- jar
|   |   `-- PaddlePredictor.jar
|   |-- so
|   |   `-- libpaddle_lite_jni.so
|   `-- src
|-- demo                                     C++ and java demo
|   |-- cxx  
|   `-- java  

4. Inference Model Optimization

Paddle Lite provides a variety of strategies to automatically optimize the original training model, including quantization, sub-graph fusion, hybrid scheduling, Kernel optimization and so on. In order to make the optimization process more convenient and easy to use, Paddle Lite provide opt tools to automatically complete the optimization steps and output a lightweight, optimal executable model.

If you use PaddleOCR 8.6M OCR model to deploy, you can directly download the optimized model.

Introduction	Detection model	Recognition model	Paddle Lite branch
lightweight Chinese OCR optimized model	Download	Download	develop

If the model to be deployed is not in the above table, you need to follow the steps below to obtain the optimized model.

git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle-Lite.git
cd Paddle-Lite
git checkout develop
./lite/tools/build.sh build_optimize_tool

The opt tool can be obtained by compiling Paddle Lite.

After the compilation is complete, the opt file is located under build.opt/lite/api/.

The opt can optimize the inference model saved by paddle.io.save_inference_model to get the model that the paddlelite API can use.

The usage of opt is as follows：

wget  https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_det_mv3_db_infer.tar && tar xf ch_det_mv3_db_infer.tar
wget  https://paddleocr.bj.bcebos.com/ch_models/ch_rec_mv3_crnn_infer.tar && tar xf ch_rec_mv3_crnn_infer.tar

./opt --model_file=./ch_det_mv3_db/model --param_file=./ch_det_mv3_db/params --optimize_out_type=naive_buffer --optimize_out=./ch_det_mv3_db_opt --valid_targets=arm
./opt --model_file=./ch_rec_mv3_crnn/model --param_file=./ch_rec_mv3_crnn/params --optimize_out_type=naive_buffer --optimize_out=./ch_rec_mv3_crnn_opt --valid_targets=arm

When the above code command is completed, there will be two more files ch_det_mv3_db_opt.nb, ch_rec_mv3_crnn_opt.nb in the current directory, which is the converted model file.

5. Run optimized model on Phone

1. Prepare an Android phone with arm8. If the compiled prediction library and opt file are armv7, you need an arm7 phone and modify ARM_ABI = arm7 in the Makefile.

2. Make sure the phone is connected to the computer, open the USB debugging option of the phone, and select the file transfer mode.

3. Install the adb tool on the computer. 3.1 Install ADB for MAC

   brew cask install android-platform-tools
   

   3.2 Install ADB for Linux

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install -y wget adb
   

   3.3 Install ADB for windows Download Link

   Verify whether adb is installed successfully

   $ adb devices
   
   List of devices attached
   744be294    device
   

   If there is device output, it means the installation was successful.

4. Prepare optimized models, prediction library files, test images and dictionary files used. Create a new ocr/ folder under the prediction library inference_lite_lib.android.armv8/demo/cxx/, and place all the files under PaddleOCR/deploy/lite/ in the PaddleOCR repo except readme.md under the newly created ocr folder. Create a new debug folder under the ocr folder, and copy the C++ prediction library so file to the debug folder

cd inference_lite_lib.android.armv8/demo/cxx/ocr/
cp ../../../cxx/lib/libpaddle_light_api_shared.so ./debug/

Prepare the test image, taking PaddleOCR/doc/imgs/11.jpg as an example, copy the image file to the demo/cxx/ocr/debug/ folder. The dictionary file for the Chinese super lightweight model is PaddleOCR/ppocr/utils/ppocr_keys_v1.txt, and copy it to the demo/cxx/ocr/debug/ folder.

After the execution is completed, the following file formats will be in the ocr folder:

5. Run Model on phone

cd inference_lite_lib.android.armv8/demo/cxx/ocr/
make -j
mv ocr_db_crnn ./debug/
adb push debug /data/local/tmp/
adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp/debug
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/local/tmp/debug:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# run model
./ocr_db_crnn ch_det_mv3_db_opt.nb  ch_rec_mv3_crnn_opt.nb ./11.jpg  ppocr_keys_v1.txt

The outputs are as follows: