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Introduction

MMOCR is an open-source toolbox based on PyTorch and mmdetection for text detection, text recognition, and the corresponding downstream tasks including key information extraction. It is part of the OpenMMLab project.

The main branch works with PyTorch 1.6+.

Major Features

• Comprehensive Pipeline

  The toolbox supports not only text detection and text recognition, but also their downstream tasks such as key information extraction.

• Multiple Models

  The toolbox supports a wide variety of state-of-the-art models for text detection, text recognition and key information extraction.

• Modular Design

  The modular design of MMOCR enables users to define their own optimizers, data preprocessors, and model components such as backbones, necks and heads as well as losses. Please refer to Getting Started for how to construct a customized model.

• Numerous Utilities

  The toolbox provides a comprehensive set of utilities which can help users assess the performance of models. It includes visualizers which allow visualization of images, ground truths as well as predicted bounding boxes, and a validation tool for evaluating checkpoints during training. It also includes data converters to demonstrate how to convert your own data to the annotation files which the toolbox supports.

What's New

v0.6.0 was released in 2022-05-05.

1. We support MASTER and DBNet++ now!
2. Three dataset converters are added: LSVT, RCTW, and HierText.
3. MMOCR now can load data from LMDB dataset. Doc
4. We provide a script to convert .json labels obtained by Labelme into MMOCR-supported data format.

Read Changelog for more details!

Installation

MMOCR depends on PyTorch, MMCV and MMDetection. Below are quick steps for installation. Please refer to Install Guide for more detailed instruction.

conda create -n open-mmlab python=3.8 pytorch=1.10 cudatoolkit=11.3 torchvision -c pytorch -y
conda activate open-mmlab
pip3 install openmim
mim install mmcv-full
mim install mmdet
git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr.git
cd mmocr
pip3 install -e .

Get Started

Please see Getting Started for the basic usage of MMOCR.

Model Zoo

Supported algorithms:

Text Detection

• DBNet (AAAI'2020) / DBNet++ (TPAMI'2022)
• Mask R-CNN (ICCV'2017)
• PANet (ICCV'2019)
• PSENet (CVPR'2019)
• TextSnake (ECCV'2018)
• DRRG (CVPR'2020)
• FCENet (CVPR'2021)

Text Recognition

• ABINet (CVPR'2021)
• CRNN (TPAMI'2016)
• MASTER (PR'2021)
• NRTR (ICDAR'2019)
• RobustScanner (ECCV'2020)
• SAR (AAAI'2019)
• SATRN (CVPR'2020 Workshop on Text and Documents in the Deep Learning Era)
• SegOCR (Manuscript'2021)

Key Information Extraction

• SDMG-R (ArXiv'2021)

Named Entity Recognition

• Bert-Softmax (NAACL'2019)

Please refer to model_zoo for more details.

Contributing

We appreciate all contributions to improve MMOCR. Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for the contributing guidelines.

Acknowledgement

MMOCR is an open-source project that is contributed by researchers and engineers from various colleges and companies. We appreciate all the contributors who implement their methods or add new features, as well as users who give valuable feedbacks. We hope the toolbox and benchmark could serve the growing research community by providing a flexible toolkit to reimplement existing methods and develop their own new OCR methods.

Citation

If you find this project useful in your research, please consider cite:

@article{mmocr2021,
    title={MMOCR:  A Comprehensive Toolbox for Text Detection, Recognition and Understanding},
    author={Kuang, Zhanghui and Sun, Hongbin and Li, Zhizhong and Yue, Xiaoyu and Lin, Tsui Hin and Chen, Jianyong and Wei, Huaqiang and Zhu, Yiqin and Gao, Tong and Zhang, Wenwei and Chen, Kai and Zhang, Wayne and Lin, Dahua},
    journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06543},
    year={2021}
}

License

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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