clone_en.md

Project Clone

1. Clone PaddleOCR

# Recommend
git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

# If you cannot pull successfully due to network problems, you can switch to the mirror hosted on Gitee:

git clone https://gitee.com/paddlepaddle/PaddleOCR

# Note: The mirror on Gitee may not keep in synchronization with the latest project on GitHub. There might be a delay of 3-5 days. Please try GitHub at first.

2. Install third-party libraries

cd PaddleOCR
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you getting this error OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found when you install shapely on windows.

Please try to download Shapely whl file from http:https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely.

Reference: Solve shapely installation on windows