Repo brief: DayBreak-u/chineseocr_lite

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Verdict

Mixed — Slowing — last commit 3mo ago

• Last commit 3mo ago
• 12 active contributors
• Distributed ownership (top contributor 43% of recent commits)
• GPL-2.0 licensed
• 1 more receipt on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

ChineseOCR Lite is a lightweight Chinese text detection and recognition system combining DBNet (1.8M), CRNN (2.5M), and AngleNet (378KB) models totaling 4.7M. It supports vertical text recognition and multiple inference backends (NCNN, MNN, TNN, ONNX Runtime), offering CPU-only inference without CUDA requirements. Monorepo with modular architecture: backend/ handles web services, dbnet/, crnn/, angnet/ contain model-specific inference code, cpp_projects/, jvm_projects/, android_projects/, dotnet_projects/ hold platform-specific implementations, models/ and models_ncnn/ store ONNX and NCNN weights respectively. Python module (chineseocr_lite) wraps inference through model.py entry point.

Start here

Read these in order:

• angnet/angle.py — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 1 other file. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
• backend/webInterface/__init__.py — Foundation: imported by 1, no internal dependencies of its own.
• angnet/__init__.py — Built on the foundation; imported by 0 downstream files.
• backend/main.py — Built on the foundation; imported by 0 downstream files.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

git clone https://github.com/DayBreak-u/chineseocr_lite.git
cd chineseocr_lite
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
chineseocr test_imgs/res.jpg

Daily commands:

Web service: cd chineseocr_lite && python backend/main.py (listens on 8089). CLI: chineseocr test_imgs/res.jpg or python -m chineseocr_lite test_imgs/res.jpg. Output: stable JSON with text, bounding boxes, and con…

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Key cautions & unknowns

• Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
• GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
• No CI workflows detected
• Python CLI expects requirements.txt installed before use; web service defaults to port 8089 without env var override visible in snippet. Android build requires CMake 3.10.2+ and targets SDK 30 with minSdkVersion 21…
• Published-advisory coverage was unavailable for the captured dependencies.
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests
• OpenSSF Scorecard

Evidence note

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