"CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU."

[hilaloytun]

Hello,
I today started to try to use EasyOCR.
It is stuck, makes no progress, it's been waiting like that for more than 1 hour. What can I do to solve that?

CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU.
Downloading detection model, please wait. This may take several minutes depending upon your network connection.
Downloading recognition model, please wait. This may take several minutes depending upon your network connection.

[rkcosmos]

I think it's download issue. You can try to download model manually here. For you it's arabic.zip. After download is done, unzip it and put the model file to 'yourhomedirectory/.EasyOCR/model'.

[hilaloytun]

Thank you for your fast reply Rakpong.
I did as you said, but it didn't work ....
Now it only gives: "CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU."

I uninstalled and and reinstalled EasyOCR just in case: "Successfully installed easyocr-1.1.7",
still the same. Another suggestion?

[rkcosmos]

"CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU." is not an error, it's just a warning. Output is already in result variable. You can just type print(result) to see the output.

[Oschenker]

"CUDA not available - defaulting to CPU..." is not an error...
Hi. I have the same problem. I know that it is not a error. But, when it was available script has performed much faster. What might be a problem. I installed CUDA 11.7, then changed to CUDA 10.2. And then changed back to 11.7. After that it ceased to work. I tried to reinstall CUDA 11.7. Check environment path and CUDA path. Everywhere is correct version. I tried CUDA version with nvcc --version command. It shows :

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2022 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Jun__8_16:59:34_Pacific_Daylight_Time_2022
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.7, V11.7.99
Build cuda_11.7.r11.7/compiler.31442593_0

Still, it is not available to easyocr.