Highlights

This release enhances the inference script and fixes a bug that might cause failure on TorchServe.

Besides, a new backbone, oCLIP-ResNet, and a dataset preparation tool, Dataset Preparer, have been released in MMOCR 1.0.0rc3 (1.x branch). Check out the changelog for more information about the features, and maintenance plan for how we will maintain MMOCR in the future.

New Features & Enhancements

• Convert numpy.float32 type to python built-in float type by @JunYao1020 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1462
• When '.' char not in output string, output is also considered to be a… by @JunYao1020 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1457
• Refactor issue template by @Harold-lkk in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1449
• issue template by @Harold-lkk in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1489
• Update maintainers by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1504
• Support MMCV < 1.8.0 by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1508

Bug Fixes

• fix ci by @Harold-lkk in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1491
• [CI] Fix CI by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1463

Docs

• [DOCs] Add MMYOLO in Readme. by @ysh329 in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1475
• [Docs] Update contributing.md by @gaotongxiao in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1490

New Contributors

• @ysh329 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/pull/1475

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/compare/v0.6.2...v0.6.3