paddleocr with pyinstaller

[WENDGOUNDI]

Hi everyone. Is anyone already created an executable file using pyinstaller with paddleocr in his python file as ocr engine? I have been trying the process for few weeks now without satisfying result. Thanks in advance

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[WenmuZhou]

You can try this on the windows platform https://github.com/sdcb/PaddleSharp

[WENDGOUNDI]

Thank you @WenmuZhou. Any hint for python since I am currently using python while PaddleSharp is for c# according to the readings.

[Evezerest]

hi, pyinstaller does not adapt to PaddlePaddle, so we recommend you use https://github.com/QPT-Family/QPT to pack paddle applications. A translator is also needed for its Chinese README.

[Heryk13]

#11490
here is some tutorial i write for how to make a exe with paddleOCR

[Suvoo]

perfectly working solution (August 2024) : #11342

Tl,DR :
pyinstaller main.py --collect-all paddleocr --collect-all pyclipper --collect-all imghdr --collect-all skimage --collect-all imgaug --collect-all scipy.io --collect-all lmdb

[alex-dinh]

This works as of July 2025:

#15918 (comment)

 pyinstaller test.py \
 	--collect-data paddlex \
 	--copy-metadata ftfy \
 	--copy-metadata imagesize \
 	--copy-metadata lxml \
 	--copy-metadata opencv-contrib-python \
 	--copy-metadata openpyxl \
 	--copy-metadata premailer \
 	--copy-metadata pyclipper \
 	--copy-metadata pypdfium2 \
 	--copy-metadata scikit-learn \
 	--copy-metadata shapely \
 	--copy-metadata tokenizers \
 	--copy-metadata einops \
 	--copy-metadata jinja2 \
 	--copy-metadata regex \
 	--copy-metadata tiktoken \
 	--add-binary "Path/to/your/site-packages/paddle/libs;."  \
 	--hidden-import "scipy._cyutility"