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# 1. Introduction to PP-OCRv5 Multilingual Text Recognition

[PP-OCRv5](./PP-OCRv5.md) is the latest generation text recognition solution in the PP-OCR series, focusing on multi-scenario and multilingual text recognition tasks. In terms of supported text types, the default configuration of the recognition model can accurately identify five major types: Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese. Additionally, PP-OCRv5 offers multilingual text recognition capabilities covering 37 languages, including Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, and more (for a full list of supported languages and abbreviations, see [Section 4](#4-supported-languages-and-abbreviations)). Compared to the previous PP-OCRv3 version, PP-OCRv5 achieves over a 30% improvement in accuracy for multilingual text recognition.

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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuicheng01/PaddleX_doc_images/refs/heads/main/images/pipelines/ocr/french_0_res.jpg" alt="French recognition result" width="500"/>
  <br>
  <b>French Recognition Result</b>
</div>

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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuicheng01/PaddleX_doc_images/refs/heads/main/images/pipelines/ocr/german_0_res.png" alt="German recognition result" width="500"/>
  <br>
  <b>German Recognition Result</b>
</div>

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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuicheng01/PaddleX_doc_images/refs/heads/main/images/pipelines/ocr/korean_1_res.jpg" alt="Korean recognition result" width="500"/>
  <br>
  <b>Korean Recognition Result</b>
</div>

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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuicheng01/PaddleX_doc_images/refs/heads/main/images/pipelines/ocr/ru_0.jpeg" alt="Russian recognition result" width="500"/>
  <br>
  <b>Russian Recognition Result</b>
</div>


## 2. Quick Start

You can specify the language for text recognition by using the `--lang` parameter when running the general OCR pipeline in the command line:

```bash
# Use the `--lang` parameter to specify the French recognition model
paddleocr ocr -i https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/general_ocr_french01.png \
    --lang fr \
    --use_doc_orientation_classify False \
    --use_doc_unwarping False \
    --use_textline_orientation False \
    --save_path ./output \
    --device gpu:0 
```
For explanations of the other command-line parameters, please refer to the [Command Line Usage](../../pipeline_usage/OCR.md#21-command-line-usage) section of the general OCR pipeline documentation. After running, the results will be displayed in the terminal:

```bash
{'res': {'input_path': '/root/.paddlex/predict_input/general_ocr_french01.png', 'page_index': None, 'model_settings': {'use_doc_preprocessor': True, 'use_textline_orientation': False}, 'doc_preprocessor_res': {'input_path': None, 'page_index': None, 'model_settings': {'use_doc_orientation_classify': False, 'use_doc_unwarping': False}, 'angle': -1}, 'dt_polys': array([[[119,  23],
        ...,
        [118,  75]],

       ...,

       [[109, 506],
        ...,
        [108, 556]]], dtype=int16), 'text_det_params': {'limit_side_len': 64, 'limit_type': 'min', 'thresh': 0.3, 'max_side_limit': 4000, 'box_thresh': 0.6, 'unclip_ratio': 1.5}, 'text_type': 'general', 'textline_orientation_angles': array([-1, ..., -1]), 'text_rec_score_thresh': 0.0, 'rec_texts': ['mifere; la profpérité & les fuccès ac-', 'compagnent l’homme induftrieux.', 'Quel eft celui qui a acquis des ri-', 'cheffes, qui eft devenu puiffant, qui', 's’eft couvert de gloire, dont l’éloge', 'retentit par-tout, qui fiege au confeil', "du Roi? C'eft celui qui bannit la pa-", "reffe de fa maifon, & qui a dit à l'oifi-", 'veté : tu es mon ennemie.'], 'rec_scores': array([0.98409832, ..., 0.98091048]), 'rec_polys': array([[[119,  23],
        ...,
        [118,  75]],

       ...,

       [[109, 506],
        ...,
        [108, 556]]], dtype=int16), 'rec_boxes': array([[118, ...,  81],
       ...,
       [108, ..., 562]], dtype=int16)}}
```

If you specify `save_path`, the visualization results will be saved to the specified path. An example of the visualized result is shown below:

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuicheng01/PaddleX_doc_images/refs/heads/main/images/pipelines/ocr/general_ocr_french01_res.png"/>


You can also use Python code to specify the recognition model for a particular language when initializing the general OCR pipeline via the `lang` parameter:

```python
from paddleocr import PaddleOCR

ocr = PaddleOCR(
    lang="fr", # Specify French recognition model with the lang parameter
    use_doc_orientation_classify=False, # Disable document orientation classification model
    use_doc_unwarping=False, # Disable text image unwarping model
    use_textline_orientation=False, # Disable text line orientation classification model
)
result = ocr.predict("https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/general_ocr_french01.png")
for res in result:
    res.print()
    res.save_to_img("output")
    res.save_to_json("output")
```
For more details on the `PaddleOCR` class parameters, please refer to the [Python Scripting Integration](../../pipeline_usage/OCR.md#22-python-scripting-integration) section of the general OCR pipeline documentation.


## 3. Performance Comparison

| Model | Download Link | Korean Dataset Accuracy (%) |
|-|-|-|
| korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec |<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 88.0|
| korean_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec | <a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/korean_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/korean_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 23.0 |

| Model | Download Link | Latin Script Language Dataset Accuracy (%) |
|-|-|-|
| latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec | <a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 84.7 |
| latin_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec | <a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/latin_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/latin_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 37.9 |

| Model | Download Link | East Slavic Language Dataset Accuracy (%) |
|-|-|-|
| eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec |<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 81.6 |
| cyrillic_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec | <a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_inference_model/paddle3.0.0/cyrillic_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_infer.tar">Inference Model</a>/<a href="https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/official_pretrained_model/cyrillic_PP-OCRv3_mobile_rec_pretrained.pdparams">Pretrained Model</a> | 50.2 |

 **Notes:**
 - Korean Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing 5,007 Korean text images.
 - Latin Script Language Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing 3,111 images of Latin script languages.
 - East Slavic Language Dataset: The latest PP-OCRv5 dataset containing a total of 7,031 text images in Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian.

## 4. Supported Languages and Abbreviations

| Language | Description | Abbreviation | | Language | Description | Abbreviation |
| --- | --- | --- | ---|--- | --- | --- |
| Chinese | Chinese & English | ch | | Hungarian | Hungarian | hu |
| English | English | en | | Serbian (latin) | Serbian (latin) | rs_latin |
| French | French | fr | | Indonesian | Indonesian | id |
| German | German | de | | Occitan | Occitan | oc |
| Japanese | Japanese | japan | | Icelandic | Icelandic | is |
| Korean | Korean | korean | | Lithuanian | Lithuanian | lt |
| Traditional Chinese | Chinese Traditional | chinese_cht | | Maori | Maori | mi |
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans | af | | Malay | Malay | ms |
| Italian | Italian | it | | Dutch | Dutch | nl |
| Spanish | Spanish | es | | Norwegian | Norwegian | no |
| Bosnian | Bosnian | bs | | Polish | Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | Portuguese | pt | | Slovak | Slovak | sk |
| Czech | Czech | cs | | Slovenian | Slovenian | sl |
| Welsh | Welsh | cy | | Albanian | Albanian | sq |
| Danish | Danish | da | | Swedish | Swedish | sv |
| Estonian | Estonian | et | | Swahili | Swahili | sw |
| Irish | Irish | ga | | Tagalog | Tagalog | tl |
| Croatian | Croatian | hr | | Turkish | Turkish | tr |
| Uzbek | Uzbek | uz | | Latin | Latin | la |
| Russian | Russian | ru | | Belarusian | Belarusian | be |
| Ukrainian | Ukrainian | uk | |  |  |  |


## 5. Models and Their Supported Languages

| Model | Supported Languages |
|-|-|
| korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec | Korean |
| latin_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec | English, French, German, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Bosnian, Portuguese, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Estonian, Irish, Croatian, Uzbek, Hungarian, Serbian (Latin), Indonesian, Occitan, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Maori, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, Latin |
| eslav_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec | Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian |