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Does this require a Nvidia GPU? Some modules seem to import PyTorch and Cuda libs: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/blob/master/easyocr/dete...

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The CPU fallback taking on the order of tens of seconds on my modest i5-5250U for a few images of street signs I've thrown at it. Good enough for my purposes at least.

It defaults to CPU if it does not detect a CUDA device.

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