EasyOCR

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images. It is a general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in document. We are currently supporting 80+ languages and expanding.

Quick Start

pip install easyocr

import easyocr
reader = easyocr.Reader(['ch_sim','en'])
result = reader.readtext('image.jpg')

For more details, see the installation guide, tutorial, and API documentation.

Supported Languages

Language	Code
Abaza	abq
Adyghe	ady
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Angika	ang
Arabic	ar
Assamese	as
Avar	ava
Azerbaijani	az
Belarusian	be
Bengali	bn
Bhojpuri	bho
Bihari	bh
Bosnian	bs
Bulgarian	bg
Chechen	che
Chinese (simplified)	ch_sim
Chinese (traditional)	ch_tra
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dargwa	dar
Dutch	nl
English	en
Estonian	et
French	fr
German	de
Goan Konkani	gom
Hindi	hi
Hungarian	hu
Icelandic	is
Indonesian	id
Ingush	inh
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Kabardian	kbd
Kannada	kn
Korean	ko
Kurdish	ku
Lak	lbe
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lezghian	lez
Lithuanian	lt
Magahi	mah
Maithili	mai
Malay	ms
Maltese	mt
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr
Mongolian	mn
Nagpuri	sck
Nepali	ne
Newari	new
Norwegian	no
Occitan	oc
Pali	pi
Persian (Farsi)	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Serbian (cyrillic)	rs_cyrillic
Serbian (latin)	rs_latin
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Spanish	es
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tabassaran	tab
Tagalog	tl
Tajik	tjk
Tamil	ta
Telugu	te
Thai	th
Turkish	tr
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Uyghur	ug
Uzbek	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Welsh	cy

Languages sharing the same written script (e.g., Latin) can be used together. English can be combined with any language.