EasyOCR: Model files won't download

Looks like there’s an issue with the server for the model files. Returns a 403 forbidden when attempting to download.

    reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], gpu = False)
  File "/Users/travis/.local/share/virtualenvs/ocr-RN8nrvRp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/easyocr/easyocr.py", line 185, in __init__
    urlretrieve(model_url['detector'][0] , DETECTOR_PATH)
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 247, in urlretrieve
    with contextlib.closing(urlopen(url, data)) as fp:
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 17 (2 by maintainers)

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trying to fix. in the mean time, you can download manually from links on README

rkcosmos on Aug 1, 2020

Thanks @rkcosmos!

One small thing: After redownloading the package as per your comment, I managed to download the models automatically, but I had to first install the requests library. Maybe the requests library should be automatically installed together with easyocr?

Traceback from my program:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “.\translate_manhua.py”, line 29, in <module> import easyocr File “D:\PythonEnvs\AutoManhuaTranslator\lib\site-packages\easyocr_init_.py”, line 1, in <module> from .easyocr import Reader File “D:\PythonEnvs\AutoManhuaTranslator\lib\site-packages\easyocr\easyocr.py”, line 5, in <module> from .recognition import get_recognizer, get_text File “D:\PythonEnvs\AutoManhuaTranslator\lib\site-packages\easyocr\recognition.py”, line 11, in <module> from .utils import CTCLabelConverter File “D:\PythonEnvs\AutoManhuaTranslator\lib\site-packages\easyocr\utils.py”, line 11, in <module> import requests ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘requests’

Wyzzard123 on Aug 3, 2020