Is there a way not to use Pytorch, as it is a heavy dependency?

[simjak]

Is there a way not to use Pytorch, as it is a heavy dependency?

[dolfim-ibm]

I doubt we can remove it. All the models (and some OCR engine) have it as dependency.
We tried onnx models in the past but it turned out being even heavier in some scenario.

Did you have any concrete strategy/proposal?

[simjak]

Fair, I was trying RapidOCR without torch.