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Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 5 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-07-07 · latest 2025-12-28

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  1. Maybe you should try something like EasyOCR instead: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
    comment by noname120 · 2025-04-04 · in Microsoft’s original source code
  2. …OSS, and you don't need to pay a dime to anyone. [0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya [1]: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR [2]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
    comment by __rito__ · 2025-02-16 · in Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
  3. …many languages also detecting text on many different world objects from images (signpost, etc) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
    comment by pzo · 2025-02-15 · in Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction
  4. …newer ones like EasyOCR [0] that can deal with much less organized text (albeit more slowly) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
    comment by beagle3 · 2024-05-13 · in I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
  5. https://github.com/mindee/doctr/issues/1049 https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR#whats-coming-next Happy to see OCR is advancing lately, but I really need HWR. I am looking for something this polished and reliable for handwriting, does…
    comment by fancy_pantser · 2024-01-03 · in How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python
  6. EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch ( https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR ). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR ( https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR ) and…
    comment by robertknight · 2023-07-03 · in OCR at Edge on Cloudflare Constellation
  7. The main one was https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR , mostly because, as promised, it was pretty easy to use, and uses pytorch (which I preferred in case I wanted to tweak it). It has been updated since, but at the time it was using CRNN,…
    comment by dimatura · 2023-05-29 · in Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
  8. …much better than Tesseract. I agree with you, Tesseract has performed very poorly in my experience. https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
    comment by makeworld · 2022-05-09 · in Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine
  9. Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
    comment by jonatron · 2021-07-31 · in In-Browser OCR
  10. Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
    comment by jonatron · 2021-07-19 · in Tesseract OCR
  11. …provide nice results. Disclaimer : I am not affiliated to jaidedAI, just a satisfied user. [1] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
    comment by blackcat201 · 2021-07-04 · in Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition
  12. Does this require a Nvidia GPU? Some modules seem to import PyTorch and Cuda libs: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/blob/master/easyocr/dete...
    comment by zurn · 2020-07-08 · in EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages