JaidedAI/EasyOCR
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
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- EasyOCR
- What's new
- What's coming next
- Examples
- Installation
- Usage
- Run on command line
- Train/use your own model
- Implementation Roadmap
- Acknowledgement and References
- Want To Contribute?
- Guideline for new language request
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What this repository does
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
Repository facts
- Owner
- JaidedAI
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 30,125
- Forks
- 3,614
- Open issues + pull requests
- 534
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2020-03-14T11:46:39.000Z
- Last push
- 2025-12-05T12:23:12.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cnn, crnn, data-mining, deep-learning, easyocr, image-processing, information-retrieval, lstm, machine-learning, ocr, optical-character-recognition, python, pytorch, scene-text, scene-text-recognition
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