EasyOCR API
Python OCR library with a simple API. Returns text lines with boxes and confidence.
- Model ID
- jaided/easyocr
- Type
- Open source
- Price
- 1 credit / page ($1.00 per 1,000 pages)
- Typical speed
- 0.9 s / page
- Inputs
- images
- Languages
- 80+ languages
- Max pages per request
- 100
- Output
- Markdown, JSON with positions
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Supports
- Bounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "jaided/easyocr",
"file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
"format": "markdown"
}'EasyOCR is not connected yet. The price below is an estimate. You can call the models that are live today with the same request.
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EasyOCR pricing
EasyOCR costs 1 credits per page. One dollar buys 1,000 credits, so 1,000 pages cost $1.00. You only pay for pages that return a result.
New accounts get 200 free credits, enough for about 200 pages with this model. See pricing for credit packs.
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