diff --git a/tools/misc/offline_eval.py b/tools/misc/offline_eval.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db8835326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/misc/offline_eval.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+import argparse
+import json
+
+import mmengine
+from mmengine import Config, DictAction
+from mmengine.evaluator import Evaluator
+
+from mmocr.registry import DATASETS
+from mmocr.utils import register_all_modules
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Offline evaluation of the '
+                                     'prediction saved in pkl format')
+    parser.add_argument('config', help='Config of the model')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'pkl_results', help='Path to the predictions in '
+        'pickle format')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--cfg-options',
+        nargs='+',
+        action=DictAction,
+        help='Override some settings in the used config, the key-value pair '
+        'in xxx=yyy format will be merged into config file. If the value to '
+        'be overwritten is a list, it should be like key="[a,b]" or key=a,b '
+        'It also allows nested list/tuple values, e.g. key="[(a,b),(c,d)]" '
+        'Note that the quotation marks are necessary and that no white space '
+        'is allowed.')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    return args
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+
+    register_all_modules()
+
+    # load config
+    cfg = Config.fromfile(args.config)
+    if args.cfg_options is not None:
+        cfg.merge_from_dict(args.cfg_options)
+
+    predictions = mmengine.load(args.pkl_results)
+
+    evaluator = Evaluator(cfg.test_evaluator)
+    dataset = DATASETS.build(cfg.test_dataloader.dataset)
+    eval_results = evaluator.offline_evaluate(dataset, predictions)
+    print(json.dumps(eval_results))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/tools/test.py b/tools/test.py
index 19d895574..93623ca8a 100755
--- a/tools/test.py
+++ b/tools/test.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ def parse_args():
     parser.add_argument(
         '--work-dir',
         help='The directory to save the file containing evaluation metrics')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--save-preds',
+        action='store_true',
+        help='Dump predictions to a pickle file for offline evaluation')
     parser.add_argument(
         '--cfg-options',
         nargs='+',
@@ -63,6 +67,18 @@ def main():
 
     cfg.load_from = args.checkpoint
 
+    # save predictions
+    if args.save_preds:
+        dump_metric = dict(
+            type='DumpResults',
+            out_file_path=osp.join(
+                cfg.work_dir,
+                f'{osp.basename(args.checkpoint)}_predictions.pkl'))
+        if isinstance(cfg.test_evaluator, (list, tuple)):
+            cfg.test_evaluator = list(cfg.test_evaluator).append(dump_metric)
+        else:
+            cfg.test_evaluator = [cfg.test_evaluator, dump_metric]
+
     # build the runner from config
     runner = Runner.from_cfg(cfg)