Which is the ocr engine that is opted by spacy-layout

[Zaheer-10]

[ines]

spacy-layout uses Docling under the hood, which also takes care of the OCR. Also see the technical report paper for more details:

Docling provides optional support for OCR, for example to cover scanned PDFs or content in bitmaps images embedded on a page. In our initial release, we rely on EasyOCR [1], a popular thirdparty OCR library with support for many languages. Docling, by default, feeds a high-resolution page image (216 dpi) to the OCR engine, to allow capturing small print detail in decent quality. While EasyOCR delivers reasonable transcription quality, we observe that it runs fairly slow on CPU (upwards of 30 seconds per page).

We are actively seeking collaboration from the open-source community to extend Docling with
additional OCR backends and speed improvements.