paddleocrfastapi's Introduction

PaddleOCRFastAPI

A simple way to deploy PaddleOCR based on FastAPI.

Support Version

PaddleOCR	Branch
v2.5	paddleocr-v2.5
v2.7	paddleocr-v2.7

Features

Local path image recognition
Base64 data recognition
Upload file recognition

Deployment Methods

Deploy Directly

Copy the project to the deployment path
```
git clone https://github.com/cgcel/PaddleOCRFastAPI.git
```
The master branch is the most recent version of PaddleOCR supported by the project. To install a specific version, clone the branch with the corresponding version number.
(Optional) Create new virtual environment to avoid dependency conflicts
Install required dependencies
```
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
Run FastAPI
```
uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0
```

Docker Deployment

Test completed in Centos 7, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10, Windows 11, requires Docker to be installed.

Copy the project to the deployment path
```
git clone https://github.com/cgcel/PaddleOCRFastAPI.git
```
The master branch is the most recent version of PaddleOCR supported by the project. To install a specific version, clone the branch with the corresponding version number.

Building a Docker Image

docker build -t paddleocrfastapi:latest .

Edit docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:

  paddleocrfastapi:
    container_name: paddleocrfastapi # Custom Container Name
    image: paddleocrfastapi:lastest # Customized Image Name & Label in Step 2
    environment:
      - TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong
      - OCR_LANGUAGE=ch # support 80 languages. refer to https://github.com/Mushroomcat9998/PaddleOCR/blob/main/doc/doc_en/multi_languages_en.md#language_abbreviations
    ports:
     - 8000:8000 # Customize the service exposure port, 8000 is the default FastAPI port, do not modify
    restart: unless-stopped

Create the Docker container and run
```
docker compose up -d
```
Swagger Page at localhost:<port>/docs

Change language

Clone this repo to localhost.
Edit routers/ocr.py, modify the parameter "lang":
```
ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True, lang="ch")
```
Before modify, read the supported language list.
Rebuild the docker image, or run the main.py directly.