Installation Guide

Learn how to install EasyOCR on your system here. There are currently 3 possible ways to install. 1. use a pip package, 2. build from source or 3. run in a Docker container. If you are using Windows, there is one additional pre-install step to follow.

Pre-install (for Windows)

For Windows, you may need to install pytorch manually. Please follow the instruction from pytorch website. Make sure to select the right CUDA version you have. If you intend to run on CPU mode only, select CUDA = None.

1. From pip package

The easiest way to install EasyOCR is by using pip package.

$ pip install easyocr

2. From source

For lastest development, you can install from source by

$ pip install git+git://github.com/jaidedai/easyocr.git

3. Docker

coming soon