v1.7.2

• 24 September 2024 - Version 1.7.2
  • Fix several compatibilities

v1.7.1

• 4 September 2023 - Version 1.7.1
  • Fix several compatibilities

v1.7.0

• 25 May 2023 - Version 1.7.0
  • Add Apple Silicon support (thanks@rayeesoft and @ArtemBernatskyy, see PR)
  • Fix several compatibilities

v1.6.2

• 15 September 2022 - Version 1.6.2
  • Add CPU support for DBnet detector
  • DBnet will only be compiled when users initialize EasyOCR with DBnet detector.

v1.6.1

• 1 September 2022 - Version 1.6.1
  • Fix DBNET path bug for Windows
  • Add new built-in model cyrillic_g2. This model is a new default for Cyrillic script.

v1.6.0

v1.6.0

• 24 August 2022 - Version 1.6.0
  • Restructure code to support alternative text detectors.
  • Add detector DBNET, see paper. It can be used by initializing like this reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], detect_network = 'dbnet18').

v1.5.0

v1.5.0

• 2 June 2022 - Version 1.5.0
  • Add trainer for CRAFT detection model (thanks@gmuffiness, see PR)

v1.4.2

• 9 April 2022 - Version 1.4.2
  • Update dependencies (opencv and pillow issues)

v1.4.1

• 11 September 2021 - Version 1.4.1
  • Add trainer folder
  • Add readtextlang method (thanks@arkya-art, see PR)
  • Extend rotation_info argument to support all possible angle (thanksabde0103, see PR)

v1.4

• 29 June 2021 - Version 1.4
  • Instruction on training/using custom recognition model
  • Example dataset
  • Batched image inference for GPU (thanks @SamSamhuns, see PR)
  • Vertical text support (thanks @interactivetech). This is for rotated text, not to be confused with vertical Chinese or Japanese text. (see PR)
  • Output in dictionary format (thanks @A2va, see PR)