🌟 Running EasyOCR for Hindi-English Documents: Full Setup, Configuration & Real Results

In a world where multilingual chaos often makes machines fumble, one library dares to decode the dance between Hindi and English — EasyOCR. Built for simplicity yet robust under the hood, this OCR library handles scripts with an elegance that feels almost poetic.

Today, we’ll walk through how to run EasyOCR for Hindi-English documents, right from installation to getting stellar results, including the best configuration for accuracy.

What is EasyOCR?

EasyOCR is an open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool, developed by the fine folks at Jaided AI. It supports over 80 languages, including complex scripts like Devanagari (used in Hindi).

EasyOCR uses deep learning (CRNN + CTC) models under the hood, making it more accurate than traditional OCR tools like Tesseract, especially in multilingual contexts.

Installation

Setting up EasyOCR is a breeze. Fire up your terminal and run:

pip install easyocr

Supported Languages

EasyOCR supports both Hindi ('hi') and English ('en') beautifully. The model handles Devanagari script (हिन्दी) and Latin script (English) in…