diff --git a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
index c9b4a9df..0c915bbf 100644
--- a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
+++ b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from enum import Enum, auto
-from typing import List, Literal, Union
+from typing import List, Literal, Optional, Union
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ class OcrOptions(BaseModel):
 class EasyOcrOptions(OcrOptions):
     kind: Literal["easyocr"] = "easyocr"
     lang: List[str] = ["fr", "de", "es", "en"]
+    use_gpu: bool = True  # same default as easyocr.Reader
+    model_storage_directory: Optional[str] = None
+    download_enabled: bool = True  # same default as easyocr.Reader
 
 
 class TesseractOcrOptions(OcrOptions):
diff --git a/docling/models/easyocr_model.py b/docling/models/easyocr_model.py
index fef0958d..c36c6657 100644
--- a/docling/models/easyocr_model.py
+++ b/docling/models/easyocr_model.py
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ class EasyOcrModel(BaseOcrModel):
                     "Alternatively, Docling has support for other OCR engines. See the documentation."
                 )
 
-            self.reader = easyocr.Reader(lang_list=self.options.lang)
+            self.reader = easyocr.Reader(
+                lang_list=self.options.lang,
+                model_storage_directory=self.options.model_storage_directory,
+                download_enabled=self.options.download_enabled,
+            )
 
     def __call__(self, page_batch: Iterable[Page]) -> Iterable[Page]: