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EasyOCR vs olmOCR: catalog facts
EasyOCR	olmOCR
Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence; you supply the GPU.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux, Command line
Works out of the box on many scripts with no training or tuning Returns bounding boxes and confidence, not just text	Handles tables, equations and handwriting Keeps reading order in complex layouts
Requires PyTorch, which is a heavy dependency Noticeably slow without a GPU	Requires a capable GPU Command-line pipeline with no desktop interface
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
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 24, 2026

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