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

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