EasyOCR

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EasyOCR is ranked #19 of 40 in OCR software on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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EasyOCR Free Open-source OCR library · no paid plans listed github.com · 4 Oct 2026

Supported languages: 80
Primary platform: desktop
Supported inputs: image
Purpose: EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images, including natural scene text and dense document text.
Languages: The project states that it supports more than 80 languages, and compatible languages can be read together.
Recognition output: The readtext method returns detected text with bounding box coordinates and confidence values, with an option for text-only output.
Input formats: Images can be supplied as a file path, NumPy array, bytes, or URL.
Compute options: The Reader can use a GPU when available or run in CPU-only mode.
Model downloads: Pretrained models download automatically when EasyOCR is used, and can also be downloaded manually for offline environments.
Customization: The API supports custom recognition networks and configurable detection, recognition, decoding, and text-box merging options.
Installation: The maker documents installation through pip, from source, or with Docker; Windows users may need to install PyTorch manually first.
Integrations: The repository says EasyOCR is integrated into Hugging Face Spaces using Gradio and provides a web demo.
License: The public GitHub repository identifies EasyOCR as licensed under Apache-2.0.
Security: The maker pages reviewed do not state a security certification or compliance claim for EasyOCR.
Price from: Free

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