{"categories":[{"label":"Artificial Intelligence","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-artificial-intelligence/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"EasyOCR performs optical character recognition on images across 80+ languages and writing scripts, extracting text with bounding boxes and confidence scores.","skillfed_tags":["ocr","multilingual","deep-learning"],"use_cases":["Extract text from multilingual documents or signs in images for data entry or indexing.","Build document scanning workflows that preserve text location and confidence metadata.","Process images with mixed scripts (e.g., English and Chinese) in a single pass.","Run OCR on CPU-only systems or low-memory environments using the gpu=False flag.","Integrate OCR into web services or batch pipelines via the Python API or CLI."],"what_it_does":"EasyOCR is a ready-to-use optical character recognition library built on PyTorch that detects and recognizes text in images across 80+ languages and popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, and Cyrillic. It combines CRAFT-based text detection with CRNN-based character recognition to extract text regions as bounding boxes with confidence scores.\n\nThe library is designed for accessibility\u2014you instantiate a Reader with your target languages, pass an image (file path, numpy array, or URL), and receive structured output. Model weights download automatically. It supports both GPU and CPU inference, and offers a command-line interface alongside the Python API. The package depends on torch, torchvision, opencv-python-headless, scipy, numpy, Pillow, scikit-image, and several geometry/formatting utilities.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need multilingual OCR and can accept the aging maintenance status. The library is production-stable, permissively licensed, and has low install friction. However, the last release was 689 days ago\u2014verify compatibility with your PyTorch and Python versions before deploying to production, and monitor the repository for security updates or breaking changes in your dependencies."},"id":"easyocr","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/easyocr","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/easyocr.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/easyocr/"},"maintenance":{"status":"aging"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2024-09-24","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"easyocr","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"End-to-End Multi-Lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Solution"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":3852280,"position":2477,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.7.2"}