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license: apache-2.0
title: Easy-OCR
sdk: gradio
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short_description: GPU-Accelerated OCR

Easy‑OCR · ZeroGPU Multilingual PDF Text Extractor

Why this Space?
All the power of GPU‑accelerated OCR, yet you only pay for GPU seconds you actually use – thanks to the HuggingFace ZeroGPU backend.

🔑 Key features

Category	Details
💡 On‑demand GPU	`@spaces.GPU` wraps only the OCR phase – choose native mode and the app never even touches a GPU.
📝 Hybrid extraction	First pulls native PDF text with pdfplumber, then OCRs any remaining images with EasyOCR.
🌍 Multilingual	Pick one or more language codes in the dropdown – the app loads only those EasyOCR models for sharper accuracy and faster warm‑up.
⚡ Streaming UX	Text appears page‑by‑page with a live progress bar.
📥 Download	One‑click `.txt` export of the full extraction.
🛡️ Robust	File‑size guard, CUDA OOM fallback, unsupported‑language warnings.

🚀 Deploy your own

Note: The first OCR call downloads EasyOCR model weights (~200 MB per language group).

💡 Usage tips

Large PDFs can take several minutes; the GPU reservation duration is 60 s.
When you know your PDF is text only, selecting native mode skips GPU altogether for near‑instant results.