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EasyOCR vs PaddleOCR: catalog facts
EasyOCR	PaddleOCR
Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Works out of the box on many scripts with no training or tuning Returns bounding boxes and confidence, not just text	Parses layout, tables and formulas, not just lines of text Outputs JSON and Markdown ready for downstream processing
Requires PyTorch, which is a heavy dependency Noticeably slow without a GPU	Built on the PaddlePaddle framework, which is a large dependency Much of the documentation and community is in Chinese
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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