Install IndicPhotoOCR

August 27, 2025 - 1 minute read - Category: Starter

Installation

Currently we need to manually create virtual environemnt.

    conda create -n indicphotoocr python=3.9 -y
conda activate indicphotoocr

git clone https://github.com/Bhashini-IITJ/IndicPhotoOCR.git
cd IndicPhotoOCR

CPU Installation

      python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  pip install dist/IndicPhotoOCR-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl[cpu]

CUDA 11.8 Installation

      python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  pip install ./dist/IndicPhotoOCR-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl[cu118] --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

CUDA 12.1 Installation

      python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  pip install ./dist/IndicPhotoOCR-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl[cu121] --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

If you find any trouble with the above installation use the setup.sh script. Make sure you have miniconda installed.

Shell script Installation

    git clone https://github.com/Bhashini-IITJ/IndicPhotoOCR.git
cd IndicPhotoOCR
chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh

  