param( [string]$Python = "py -3.10" ) $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" $root = Split-Path -Parent (Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path) $venv = Join-Path $root ".venv-ocr" if (-not (Test-Path $venv)) { Invoke-Expression "$Python -m venv `"$venv`"" } $pythonExe = Join-Path $venv "Scripts\python.exe" & $pythonExe -m pip install --upgrade pip & $pythonExe -m pip install -r (Join-Path $root "requirements-paddleocr.txt") Write-Host "PaddleOCR Arabic PP-OCRv5 sidecar is ready at $venv" Write-Host "Use OCR_ENGINE=paddleocr only as a fallback; the website's readable default is Tesseract Arabic."