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EasyOCR vs Tesseract OCR: catalog facts
EasyOCR	Tesseract OCR
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	Over a hundred languages, with trainable models Outputs searchable PDFs directly, not just text
Requires PyTorch, which is a heavy dependency Noticeably slow without a GPU	Accuracy depends heavily on image preprocessing you must do yourself No interface of its own; it is a command line engine
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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