This article compares various OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools like tesseract.js, ChineseOCR, chineseocr_lite, TrWebOCR, paddleocr, easyocr, and PearOCR. These tools support multiple languages, different text directions, and handwriting recognition with varying capabilities.

tesseract

tesseract.js with 100+ language support, still need to predefine language type

chineseocr, with arbitrary text direction and rubust handwriting recognization support

lightweight chinese ocr model

efficient ocr python lib based on tr

paddleocr

easyocr

pearocr client side webpage/browser based ocr

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