Installation Guide

There are 3 ways to install EasyOCR: pip, build from source, or Docker container. Windows users need one additional pre-install step.

Pre-install (Windows only)

For Windows, you may need to install pytorch manually. Please follow the instructions from the PyTorch website. Make sure to select the right CUDA version you have. For CPU-only mode, select CUDA = None.

1. From pip (recommended)

The easiest way to install EasyOCR:

pip install easyocr

2. From source

For the latest development version:

pip install git+https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR.git

3. Docker

See the GitHub README for Docker instructions.