OcrExtractor consuming a lot of RAM and not using GPU

[davidcbbc]

Hey!

After using AIL for a while I noticed that the OcrExtractor module that uses easyocr is consuming a lot of ram. Therefore, I updated my AIL machine with a GPU and restarted the AIL process. Nonetheless, it seems the module is not using the GPU by default and still consuming a lot of RAM , as seen in the next picture:

Also you can see on the following picture that the GPU is not being used by the OcrExtractor module:

After searching a little I've found this link where it states that the easyocr Reader function in https://github.com/ail-project/ail-framework/blob/master/bin/lib/objects/Ocrs.py should be called with gpu=True to use the GPU accelaration - any thoughts?

[adulau]

That's indeed correct. You need to add the gpu=True when instantiating easyOCR. We might need indeed to add it as a configuration parameter for the next release to make it more easy to enable.