EasyOCR is an OCR Python package for detecting and recognizing text in images. Based on PyTorch, it focuses on ease of use and its wide range of languages, supporting 80+ languages including English, with new languages occasionally added. It also features the capability to train and use a custom-trained recognition and detection model.
It is licensed under an Apache-2.0 license and currently has more than 20,000 stars on its GitHub repository.
Digitizing printed documents
Extracting text from photographs
Recognizing text in natural scenes (e.g., street signs, billboards)
Assisting in data entry and document management systems
Enabling accessibility features such as text-to-speech for the visually impaired.
Compared to other popular OCR models, EasyOCR has novel accuracy. EasyOCR also holds up in terms of runtime for GPU’s. However, EasyOCR is significantly slower than other models in terms of CPU runtime.