itext-EasyOCR-chinese_sim

<h1>itext-EasyOCR-chinese_sim</h1>

These are machine learning models designed to detect and recognize text within images. They analyze visual input, identify regions containing text, and convert that text into a machine-readable format. We integrate these models into our iText PdfOCR ONNX engine to enable efficient and accurate extraction of textual content from scanned documents and image-based PDFs. For seamless integration, they are converted into ONNX format, ensuring compatibility with the iText PdfOCR engine.

<a href="https://itextpdf.com/products/pdf-ocr-text-recognition">Learn more about iText PdfOCR</a>

<h2><b>Model overview</b></h2>

• <i>Source:</i> https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/releases/download/pre-v1.1.6/chinese_sim.zip
• <i>Conversion:</i> ONNX version generated by running the following script: https://github.com/itext/itext-pdfocr-java/tree/develop/easyOcr_to_onnx_export
• <i>What it does:</i> Detects text (handwritten, vertical, rotated, curved) in many languages (Simplified/Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese) with a good speed accuracy trade off for mobile class hardware.
• <i>iText support:</i> Available from pdfOCR 5.0.0 onward.

<h2>Getting started with iText pdfOCR </h2>

• <a href="https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/installing-itext-pdfocr-for-java-developers">Installing iText pdfOCR for Java developers</a>
• <a href="https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/installing-itext-pdfocr-for-net-developers">Installing iText pdfOCR for .NET developers</a>

<br> <h3>Simple OCR engine (detection + recognition)</h3> <h5>java (but is also available in .NET)</h5>

// detection
IDetectionPredictor easyDetectionPredictor = OnnxDetectionPredictor.easyOcr(PATH_TO_DETECTION_MODEL); // e.g. "itext-EasyOCR-craft_mlt_25k.onnx"
// recognition
IRecognitionPredictor recognition = OnnxRecognitionPredictor.easyOcr(PATH_TO_RECOGNITION_MODEL, EasyOcrMapper.LATIN_G2); // your recognition ONNX model + appropriate mapper
// combine into an engine
try(OnnxOcrEngine ocrEngine = new OnnxOcrEngine(detection, recognition);) { 
	/* Your OCR processing here */ 
}

<br> <h4>OCR engine with orientation handling</h4> <h5>java (but is also available in .NET)</h5>

IDetectionPredictor easyDetectionPredictor = OnnxDetectionPredictor.easyOcr(PATH_TO_DETECTION_MODEL);
IRecognitionPredictor recognition = OnnxRecognitionPredictor.easyOcr(PATH_TO_RECOGNITION_MODEL, EasyOcrMapper.LATIN_G2);
// orientation predictor (MobileNetV3 variant)
OnnxOrientationPredictor orientation = OnnxOrientationPredictor.mobileNetV3(PATH_TO_ORIENTATION_MODEL);
try(OnnxOcrEngine ocrEngine = new OnnxOcrEngine(detection, orientation, recognition)) {
        /* Your OCR processing here */
        }

<br> <h4>The created ocrEngine can be passed to the standard iText pdfOCR API, e.g.:</h4>

OcrPdfCreator ocrPdfCreator = new OcrPdfCreator(ocrEngine);
ocrPdfCreator.createPdfFile(Collections.singletonList(new File(imagePath)), new File(outPdfFile))

<h2>Sample projects</h2>

<h5>The following example files illustrate complete usage patterns:</h5>

• <a href="https://github.com/XodoDocs/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfocr/onnx/PdfOcrOnnxExample.java">Basic ONNX OCR – PdfOcrOnnxExample.java</a>
• <a href="https://github.com/XodoDocs/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfocr/onnx/PdfOcrOnnxMultilingualExample.java">Multilingual OCR – PdfOcrOnnxMultilingualExample.java</a>
• <a href="https://github.com/XodoDocs/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfocr/onnx/PdfOcrOnnxPdfAsInputExample.java">PDF as input – PdfOcrOnnxPdfAsInputExample.java</a>
• <a href="https://github.com/XodoDocs/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfocr/onnx/PdfOcrOnnxTextPositioningExample.java">Text positioning – PdfOcrOnnxTextPositioningExample.java</a>
• <a href="https://github.com/XodoDocs/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfocr/onnx/PdfOcrOnnxTxtFileExample.java">Export to plain text file – PdfOcrOnnxTxtFileExample.java</a>