# EasyOCR

[EasyOCR](https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR) is a multilingual optical character recognition model deployable via our [Serverless Hosted API](/deploy/serverless-hosted-api-v2.md). Supported languages include English, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin (covering Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, and Dutch), Telugu, and Simplified Chinese.

## Code sample

Call the `/easy_ocr/ocr` endpoint directly with `curl`:

```bash
curl --location 'https://serverless.roboflow.com/easy_ocr/ocr' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "image": {"type": "url", "value": "https://media.roboflow.com/swift.png"},
    "language_codes": ["en"]
  }'
```

The same call through the SDK. Install it:

```bash
pip install inference-sdk
```

Run EasyOCR on an image. Pass your [Roboflow API Key](https://app.roboflow.com/settings/api) via the `API_KEY` env variable.

```python
import os
import urllib.request
from inference_sdk import InferenceHTTPClient

image_url = "https://media.roboflow.com/swift.png"
image_path = "swift.png"
urllib.request.urlretrieve(image_url, image_path)

client = InferenceHTTPClient(
    api_url="https://serverless.roboflow.com",
    api_key=os.getenv("API_KEY"),
)

result = client.ocr_image(
    inference_input=image_path,
    model="easy_ocr",
    language_codes=["en"],
)

print(result["result"]) # Extracted text
```

The code above prints inference results to the terminal:

```
was thinking earlier today that have gone through, to use the lingo, eras Of listening to each of Swift's Eras. Meta indeed: started listening to Ms. Swift's music after hearing the Midnights album: few weeks after hearing the album for the first time, found myself playing various songs on repeat. listened to the album in order multiple times:
```

{% hint style="info" %}
Set `api_url` to match your deployment target:

* `https://serverless.roboflow.com` for the Serverless Hosted API.
* `http://localhost:9001` for a local [Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com/) server.
* Your [Dedicated Deployment](/deploy/dedicated-deployments.md) URL for a private endpoint.
  {% endhint %}


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