Introduction to EASYOCR: A Simple and Accurate Python Library for Optical Character Recognition

Arjun Gullbadhar
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readFeb 6, 2023

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Want to become an instant expert on this EasyOCR? Here are all the key insights I gained after 10 hours of research, condensed into just 5 minutes.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and refers to the technology used to convert scanned images, PDFs, or other documents into editable and searchable text files. With OCR, characters, and text are captured from a document, translated into digital format, and then transformed into an editable document, such as a…

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