PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

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PaddleOCR is a multilingual OCR and document parsing toolkit built on PaddlePaddle that converts images and PDFs into structured data like Markdown. It supports 100+ languages, text detection/recognition, layout analysis, and key information extraction, and is designed to feed documents into LLM and RAG pipelines.

Use cases

• extract text from images and scanned pdfs
• convert pdf documents to markdown for llm ingestion
• build a rag pipeline over document collections
• recognize chinese and other multilingual text in photos
• parse invoices and forms to extract key fields
• ocr tables and document layout into structured data

When to choose

• you need high-accuracy multilingual ocr, especially for chinese text
• you want to turn pdfs or images into structured input for llms or rag
• you need document parsing with layout, table, and key-information extraction
• you want a mature, actively maintained toolkit with cpu and gpu support

When to avoid

• you need a lightweight pure-inference solution without a deep learning framework dependency
• your project is built on pytorch or tensorflow and you don't want paddlepaddle
• you only need simple tesseract-level ocr without document structure parsing

Facets

library · maturity stable

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