PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR - OCR toolkit for AI document extraction workflows
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About PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR is an open-source AI-focused repository on GitHub. 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. Builders should use the official source to inspect setup, license, recent activity, issues, and dependencies before adding it to a workflow.
Pros
- Extract text from images, PDFs, and document screenshots
- Support multilingual OCR workflows from the PaddlePaddle ecosystem
- Turn visual documents into text that LLM systems can process
- Open-source repository with models, docs, issues, and examples
- Useful for document pipelines, data capture, and AI preprocessing
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Pricing
Open-source repository
$0
- • Public GitHub source repository
- • Self-host, fork, or adapt for internal use
- • External model/API/compute costs are separate
