Highlights

1. ArT dataset is available for text detection and recognition!
2. Fix several bugs that affects the correctness of the models.
3. Thanks to MIM, our installation is much simpler now! The docs has been renewed as well.

New Features & Enhancements

• Add ArT by @xinke-wang in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1006
• add ABINet_Vision api by @Abdelrahman350 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1041
• add codespell ignore and use mdformat by @Harold-lkk in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1022
• Add mim to extras_requrie to setup.py, update mminstall… by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1062
• Simplify normalized edit distance calculation by @maxbachmann in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1060
• Test mim in CI by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1090
• Remove redundant steps by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1091

• Update links to SDMGR links by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1252

Bug Fixes

• Remove unnecessary requirements by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1000
• Remove confusing img_scales in pipelines by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1007
• inplace operator "+=" will cause RuntimeError when model backward by @garvan2021 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1018
• Fix a typo problem in MASTER by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1031
• Fix config name of MASTER in ocr.py by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1044
• Relax OpenCV requirement by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1061
• Restrict the minimum version of OpenCV to avoid potential vulnerability by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1065
• typo by @tpoisonooo in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1024
• Fix a typo in setup.py by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1095
• fix #1067: add torchserve DockerFile and fix bugs by @Hegelim in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1073
• Incorrect filename in labelme_converter.py by @xiefeifeihu in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1103
• Fix dataset configs by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1106
• Fix #1098: normalize text recognition scores by @Hegelim in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1119
• Update ST_SA_MJ_train.py by @MingyuLau in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1117
• PSENet metafile by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1121
• Flexible ways of getting file name by @balandongiv in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1107
• Updating edge-embeddings after each GNN layer by @amitbcp in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1134
• links update by @TekayaNidham in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1141
• bug fix: access params by cfg.get by @doem97 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1145
• Fix a bug in LmdbAnnFileBackend that cause breaking in Synthtext detection training by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1159
• Fix typo of --lmdb-map-size default value by @easilylazy in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1147
• Fixed docstring syntax error of line 19 & 21 by @APX103 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1157
• Update lmdb_converter and ct80 cropped image source in document by @doem97 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1164
• MMCV compatibility due to outdated MMDet by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1192
• Update maximum version of mmcv by @xinke-wang in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1219
• Update ABINet links for main by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1221
• Update owners by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1248
• Add back some missing fields in configs by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1171

Docs

• Fix typos by @xinke-wang in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1001
• Configure Myst-parser to parse anchor tag by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1012
• Fix a error in docs/en/tutorials/dataset_types.md by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1034
• Update readme according to the guideline by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1047
• Limit markdown version by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1172
• Limit extension versions by @Mountchicken in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1210

• Update installation guide by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1254
• Update image link @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1255

New Contributors

• @tpoisonooo made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1024
• @Abdelrahman350 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1041
• @Hegelim made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1073
• @xiefeifeihu made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1103
• @MingyuLau made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1117
• @balandongiv made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1107
• @amitbcp made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1134
• @TekayaNidham made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1141
• @easilylazy made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1147
• @APX103 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1157

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/compare/v0.6.0...v0.6.1