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Vikas Kumar
Vikas Kumar

Reputation: 272

ImportError: cannot import name 'inference' from 'paddle'

I am trying to implement paddleocr. I have installed it using:

#Github repo installation for paddle
! python3 -m pip install paddlepaddle -i https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple

#install paddle ocr
!pip install paddleocr

!git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR.git

But while importing

from paddleocr import PaddleOCR,draw_ocr

I'm getting this error: ImportError: cannot import name 'inference' from 'paddle'

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9803

Answers (2)

Zach Lindsey
Zach Lindsey

Reputation: 31

Well, it's embarrassing, but if it helps anyone else avoid some frustration, it's worth it:

Make sure your file is not called paddle.py!

Upvotes: 3

Bobbick
Bobbick

Reputation: 255

I had the same error. My solution was to:

pip install paddlepaddle

Then I got another error (luckily you will not get this one but just in case) telling me to downgrade protoc to a version between 3.19 and 3.20, which I fixed by executing the following command:

pip install protobuf==3.19.0

After this I was able to execute the script that imported from paddleocr

Upvotes: 5

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