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EasyOCR vs OnlineOCR.net: catalog facts
EasyOCROnlineOCR.net
Free

Free and open source under the Apache licence.

Freemium

Guest conversion is free with limits; registration provides additional capacity.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Web
  • Works out of the box on many scripts with no training or tuning
  • Returns bounding boxes and confidence, not just text
  • Recognizes text in images and scanned PDFs
  • Supports multiple recognition languages
  • Requires PyTorch, which is a heavy dependency
  • Noticeably slow without a GPU
  • Guest uploads are limited to 15 MB
  • Guest users can convert five files per hour
Downloadable app Web application, Hosted service
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 Needs internet

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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