PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 147 days ago, with 282 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an end-to-end OCR and document AI toolkit that converts images and PDFs into structured, AI-friendly data like JSON and Markdown.
- Delivers industry-leading accuracy with multilingual support for 100+ languages and advanced document parsing preserving layout and hierarchy.
- Use for extracting and recognizing multilingual text from complex scene images and handwritten documents in real-time applications.
- Use for parsing complex PDF documents into structured formats including tables, charts, seals, and nested formulas for enterprise document workflows.
- Use for intelligent key information extraction and question answering from scanned documents using integrated large language models.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
PaddleOCR is an industry-leading, production-ready OCR and document AI engine, offering end-to-end solutions from text extraction to intelligent document understanding
PaddleOCR converts documents and images into structured, AI-friendly data (like JSON and Markdown) with industry-leading accuracy—powering AI applications for everyone from indie developers and startups to large enterprises worldwide. With over 50,000 stars and deep integration into leading projects like MinerU, RAGFlow, and OmniParser, PaddleOCR has become the premier solution for developers building intelligent document applications in the AI era.
In addition to providing an outstanding model library, PaddleOCR 3.0 also offers user-friendly tools covering model training, inference, and service deployment, so developers can rapidly bring AI applications to production.
Special Note: PaddleOCR 3.x introduces several significant interface changes. Old code written based on PaddleOCR 2.x is likely incompatible with PaddleOCR 3.x. Please ensure that the documentation you are reading matches the version of PaddleOCR you are using. This document explains the reasons for the upgrade and the major changes from PaddleOCR 2.x to 3.x.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+4,844 stars over 86 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +30 on Sep 24.
Forks
11.6K+450
Open issues
261+35
Compared with peers in Computer Vision
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| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 78.3K | +1.6K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR | 92.3K | — | 47 | 147 days ago |
| blakeblackshear/frigate | 37.3K | — | 59 | 24 days ago |
| HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium | 7.7K | — | 10 | — |
| mindee/doctr | 6.4K | — | 61 | 79 days ago |
| aurelio-labs/semantic-router | 4.0K | — | 59 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 7.7K | — | 59 | — |
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