Add Easyocr / PaddleOCR package

[ravirathore]

Hi,

Request to please add support for any of these packages. These are very popular. Will also increase pyodide popularity. Please let know if its possible.

🐍 Package Request

• Package Name and Version : Easyocr
• Package URL : https://pypi.org/project/easyocr/
• Package Dependencies that needs to be resolved first: torch, torchvision, opencv-python

🐍 Package Request

• Package Name and Version : PaddleOCR
• Package URL :https://pypi.org/project/paddleocr/
• Package Dependencies that needs to be resolved first: opencv-python

Thanks and regards,

[rth]

Thanks for opening this issue.

pypi.org/project/easyocr

Easyocr is by itself a pure python package, so you can install it with micropip from PyPi,

>>> import micropip
>>> await micropip.install(['easyocr'])

however currently this would fail as it has a dependency on torch which still needs porting #1625 (and it's difficult).

pypi.org/project/paddleocr

This is maybe would be easier to achieve. The first step would be to make sure all of its dependencies are included in Pyodide. The process to add new packages is documented in https://pyodide.org/en/stable/development/new-packages.html

[ravirathore]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

PaddleOCR needs PaddlePaddle. Their following dependencies are not in this list: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/tree/main/packages

protobuf
requests
astor
paddle_bfloat
opt_einsum
shapely
imgaug
pyclipper
lmdb
visualdl
python-Levenshtein
opencv-contrib-python
cython
premailer
openpyxl

Will try to add them.

Please let know if there's an example document available. (e.g. adding bigger packages like scipy)

Thanks and regards,