docs/en/install.md

# Installation

## Prerequisites

- Linux | Windows | macOS
- Python 3.7
- PyTorch 1.6 or higher
- torchvision 0.7.0
- CUDA 10.1
- NCCL 2
- GCC 5.4.0 or higher
- [MMCV](https://mmcv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#installation)
- [MMDetection](https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#installation)

MMOCR has different version requirements on MMCV and MMDetection at each release to guarantee the implementation correctness. Please refer to the table below and ensure the package versions fit the requirement.

| MMOCR        | MMCV                   | MMDetection               |
| ------------ | ---------------------- | ------------------------- |
| master       | 1.3.8 <= mmcv <= 1.5.0 | 2.14.0 <= mmdet <= 3.0.0  |
| 0.4.0, 0.4.1 | 1.3.8 <= mmcv <= 1.5.0 | 2.14.0 <= mmdet <= 2.20.0 |
| 0.3.0        | 1.3.8 <= mmcv <= 1.4.0 | 2.14.0 <= mmdet <= 2.20.0 |
| 0.2.1        | 1.3.8 <= mmcv <= 1.4.0 | 2.13.0 <= mmdet <= 2.20.0 |
| 0.2.0        | 1.3.4 <= mmcv <= 1.4.0 | 2.11.0 <= mmdet <= 2.13.0 |
| 0.1.0        | 1.2.6 <= mmcv <= 1.3.4 | 2.9.0 <= mmdet <= 2.11.0  |

We have tested the following versions of OS and software:

- OS: Ubuntu 16.04
- CUDA: 10.1
- GCC(G++): 5.4.0
- MMCV 1.3.8
- MMDetection 2.14.0
- PyTorch 1.6.0
- torchvision 0.7.0

MMOCR depends on PyTorch and mmdetection.

## Step-by-Step Installation Instructions

a. Create a Conda virtual environment and activate it.

```shell
conda create -n open-mmlab python=3.7 -y
conda activate open-mmlab
```

b. Install PyTorch and torchvision following the [official instructions](https://pytorch.org/), e.g.,

```shell
conda install pytorch==1.6.0 torchvision==0.7.0 cudatoolkit=10.1 -c pytorch
```

:::{note}
Make sure that your compilation CUDA version and runtime CUDA version matches.
You can check the supported CUDA version for precompiled packages on the [PyTorch website](https://pytorch.org/).
:::

c. Install [mmcv](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmcv), we recommend you to install the pre-build mmcv as below.

```shell
pip install mmcv-full -f https://download.openmmlab.com/mmcv/dist/{cu_version}/{torch_version}/index.html
```

Please replace ``{cu_version}`` and ``{torch_version}`` in the url with your desired one. For example, to install the latest ``mmcv-full`` with CUDA 11 and PyTorch 1.7.0, use the following command:

```shell
pip install mmcv-full -f https://download.openmmlab.com/mmcv/dist/cu110/torch1.7.0/index.html
```

:::{note}
mmcv-full is only compiled on PyTorch 1.x.0 because the compatibility usually holds between 1.x.0 and 1.x.1. If your PyTorch version is 1.x.1, you can install mmcv-full compiled with PyTorch 1.x.0 and it usually works well.

```bash
# We can ignore the micro version of PyTorch
pip install mmcv-full -f https://download.openmmlab.com/mmcv/dist/cu110/torch1.7/index.html
```

:::
:::{note}

If it compiles during installation, then please check that the CUDA version and PyTorch version **exactly** matches the version in the `mmcv-full` installation command.

See official [installation guide](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmcv#installation) for different versions of MMCV compatible to different PyTorch and CUDA versions.
:::

:::{warning}
You need to run `pip uninstall mmcv` first if you have `mmcv` installed. If `mmcv` and `mmcv-full` are both installed, there will be `ModuleNotFoundError`.
:::

d. Install [mmdet](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection), we recommend you to install the latest `mmdet` with pip.
See [here](https://pypi.org/project/mmdet/) for different versions of `mmdet`.

```shell
pip install mmdet
```

Optionally you can choose to install `mmdet` following the official [installation guide](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/blob/master/docs/get_started.md).

e. Clone the MMOCR repository.

```shell
git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr.git
cd mmocr
```

f. Install build requirements and then install MMOCR.

```shell
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -v -e . # or "python setup.py develop"
export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd):$PYTHONPATH
```

## Full Set-up Script

Here is the full script for setting up MMOCR with Conda.

```shell
conda create -n open-mmlab python=3.7 -y
conda activate open-mmlab

# install latest pytorch prebuilt with the default prebuilt CUDA version (usually the latest)
conda install pytorch==1.6.0 torchvision==0.7.0 cudatoolkit=10.1 -c pytorch

# install the latest mmcv-full
pip install mmcv-full -f https://download.openmmlab.com/mmcv/dist/cu101/torch1.6.0/index.html

# install mmdetection
pip install mmdet

# install mmocr
git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr.git
cd mmocr

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -v -e .  # or "python setup.py develop"
export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd):$PYTHONPATH
```

## Another option: Docker Image

We provide a [Dockerfile](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/blob/master/docker/Dockerfile) to build an image.

```shell
# build an image with PyTorch 1.6, CUDA 10.1
docker build -t mmocr docker/
```

Run it with

```shell
docker run --gpus all --shm-size=8g -it -v {DATA_DIR}:/mmocr/data mmocr
```

## Prepare Datasets

It is recommended to symlink the dataset root to `mmocr/data`. Please refer to [datasets.md](datasets.md) to prepare your datasets.
If your folder structure is different, you may need to change the corresponding paths in config files.

The `mmocr` folder is organized as follows:

```
├── configs/
├── demo/
├── docker/
├── docs/
├── LICENSE
├── mmocr/
├── README.md
├── requirements/
├── requirements.txt
├── resources/
├── setup.cfg
├── setup.py
├── tests/
├── tools/
```