JaidedAI / EasyOCR

Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
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EasyOCR is taking ~8 seconds for initialization #1273

Open bhuvnesh1315 opened 2 months ago

bhuvnesh1315 commented 2 months ago

CODE: import easyocr import time

print("Initializing", time.time()) reader = None reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], gpu="cuda:0") print("Initialized", time.time())

OUTPUT: Initializing 1719830193.2815192 Initialized 1719830201.5142188

EasyOCR version : 1.6.2 CUDA version : 12.2 OS : Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Python version : 3.10.12