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.
PaddleOCR is an industrial-strength multilingual OCR toolkit with ultra-lightweight models that run from servers down to edge devices.
From the README
- Seamless Integration: The premier choice for the AI Agent ecosystem—deeply integrated with Dify, RAGFlow, Pathway, and Cherry Studio.
- LLM Data Flywheel: A complete pipeline to build high-quality datasets, providing a sustainable "Data Engine" for fine-tuning Large Language Models.
- One-Click Deployment: Supports various hardware backends (NVIDIA GPU, Intel CPU, Kunlunxin XPU, and diverse AI Accelerators).
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PaddleOCR has 88.5k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 11.3k times. PaddleOCR is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2020. PaddleOCR is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are ai4science, chineseocr, document-parsing, document-translation.
Read the full guideWhat is 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.
Is PaddleOCR open source?
PaddleOCR is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.
Is PaddleOCR free?
Yes. PaddleOCR is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does PaddleOCR use?
PaddleOCR is available under the Apache-2.0 license.
What language is PaddleOCR written in?
PaddleOCR is written mainly in Python.
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