This code is derived from(modified some codes) paddle_ocr project: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/release/2.6/deploy/cpp_infer

how to install paddle_inference sdk (by downloading tar package from official web)?

1. Choose the right tar file according to your version of CUDA and GPUs
2. Put the tar file at anywhere and unzip it
3. Run tools/install_paddle_inference.sh, it will help you to install it automatically, please modify the root path of paddle_inference at the first line in script.

CUDA 11.1 TensorRT8.5 for this repo (tested).

how to build paddle_ocr?

we can build paddle_ocr separately.

1. set the right library path and include path for PaddlePaddle in CMakeLists.txt
2. mkdir build && cd build
3. cmake ..
4. make -j8

all lib files saved to build/libs, all samples saved to build/samples. please refer to videopipe about how to run samples for paddle_ocr.

Sample screenshot

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