JaidedAI/EasyOCR
★ 30,089 stars
Covered in week 2026-W31 · the 2026-07 report
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
What EasyOCR is
Model weights for the chosen language will be automatically downloaded or you can download them manually from the model hub and put them in the '~/.EasyOCR/model' folder
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Extracting text from images usually means fighting with Tesseract installations, dependency hell, and garbage accuracy on anything beyond perfect documents. EasyOCR handles 80+ languages including Chinese and Arabic from Python with three lines of code. 30,000 stars because it works on street signs, receipts, screenshots—whatever real-world mess you throw at it. Would this replace your current OCR workflow?