How to define the models to use with PaddleOCR?

[haimat]

I want to try different models in PaddleOCR, so I am doing this:

from paddleocr import PaddleOCR
ocr = PaddleOCR(det_model_name='en_PP-OCRv3_det', rec_model_name='en_number_mobile_v2.0_rec', lang='en')

However, regardless of what values I use for det_model_name and rec_model_name, nothing seems to change. Even when I use some random strings here, the PaddleOCR constructor does not complain. What am I doing wrong or how can I verify PaddleOCR uses the given models?

[GreatV]

You may need to set det_model_dir and rec_model_dir.

The namespaces in PaddleOCR are as follows:

Namespace(help='==SUPPRESS==', use_gpu=True, use_xpu=False, use_npu=False, use_mlu=False, ir_optim=True, use_tensorrt=False, min_subgraph_size=15, precision='fp32', gpu_mem=500, gpu_id=0, image_dir='result.jpg', page_num=0, det_algorithm='DB', det_model_dir='/home/greatx/.paddleocr/whl/det/ch/ch_PP-OCRv4_det_infer', det_limit_side_len=960, det_limit_type='max', det_box_type='quad', det_db_thresh=0.3, det_db_box_thresh=0.6, det_db_unclip_ratio=1.5, max_batch_size=10, use_dilation=False, det_db_score_mode='fast', det_east_score_thresh=0.8, det_east_cover_thresh=0.1, det_east_nms_thresh=0.2, det_sast_score_thresh=0.5, det_sast_nms_thresh=0.2, det_pse_thresh=0, det_pse_box_thresh=0.85, det_pse_min_area=16, det_pse_scale=1, scales=[8, 16, 32], alpha=1.0, beta=1.0, fourier_degree=5, rec_algorithm='SVTR_LCNet', rec_model_dir='/home/greatx/.paddleocr/whl/rec/ch/ch_PP-OCRv4_rec_infer', rec_image_inverse=True, rec_image_shape='3, 48, 320', rec_batch_num=6, max_text_length=25, rec_char_dict_path='/home/greatx/miniconda3/envs/ppocr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paddleocr/ppocr/utils/ppocr_keys_v1.txt', use_space_char=True, vis_font_path='./doc/fonts/simfang.ttf', drop_score=0.5, e2e_algorithm='PGNet', e2e_model_dir=None, e2e_limit_side_len=768, e2e_limit_type='max', e2e_pgnet_score_thresh=0.5, e2e_char_dict_path='./ppocr/utils/ic15_dict.txt', e2e_pgnet_valid_set='totaltext', e2e_pgnet_mode='fast', use_angle_cls=False, cls_model_dir='/home/greatx/.paddleocr/whl/cls/ch_ppocr_mobile_v2.0_cls_infer', cls_image_shape='3, 48, 192', label_list=['0', '180'], cls_batch_num=6, cls_thresh=0.9, enable_mkldnn=False, cpu_threads=10, use_pdserving=False, warmup=False, sr_model_dir=None, sr_image_shape='3, 32, 128', sr_batch_num=1, draw_img_save_dir='./inference_results', save_crop_res=False, crop_res_save_dir='./output', use_mp=False, total_process_num=1, process_id=0, benchmark=False, save_log_path='./log_output/', show_log=True, use_onnx=False, return_word_box=False, output='./output', table_max_len=488, table_algorithm='TableAttn', table_model_dir=None, merge_no_span_structure=True, table_char_dict_path=None, layout_model_dir=None, layout_dict_path=None, layout_score_threshold=0.5, layout_nms_threshold=0.5, kie_algorithm='LayoutXLM', ser_model_dir=None, re_model_dir=None, use_visual_backbone=True, ser_dict_path='../train_data/XFUND/class_list_xfun.txt', ocr_order_method=None, mode='structure', image_orientation=False, layout=True, table=True, ocr=True, recovery=False, use_pdf2docx_api=False, invert=False, binarize=False, alphacolor=(255, 255, 255), lang='ch', det=True, rec=True, type='ocr', savefile=False, ocr_version='PP-OCRv4', structure_version='PP-StructureV2')

[haimat]

Thanks - I have installed PaddleOCR via pip. What are these two directories? Do I have to download the models first? Since PaddleOCR does not complain when I set a random string as models, how do I know that it has picked up the correct models if I specify them at the constructor?