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EasyOCR vs MinerU: catalog facts
EasyOCR	MinerU
Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.	Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Works out of the box on many scripts with no training or tuning Returns bounding boxes and confidence, not just text	Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more
Requires PyTorch, which is a heavy dependency Noticeably slow without a GPU	Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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