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PaddleOCR

PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit to convert images and PDFs into structured data

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Decision brief

PaddleOCR is a powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that offers support for over 100 languages and multiple series like PP-OCR and PaddleOCR-VL.

Good fit when

For projects requiring optical character recognition with multilingual support, especially involving Chinese documents.
When you need detailed documentation and local deployment options, including the PP-OCR series or the more advanced PaddleOCR-VL for document parsing and translation.

Avoid when

When you require a solution that focuses exclusively on Western languages, as PaddleOCR's strength lies in comprehensive multilingual support, including strong capabilities for Chinese.
In scenarios where ease of setup is paramount but detailed control over the OCR pipeline and customization options are less critical since PaddleOCR requires configuration via multiple documentation.

Pricing:: freemium - PaddleOCR is available under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use for academic and commercial purposes without cost beyond any running infrastructure costs.
Requirements:: Min 4 GB RAM; Requires Python for local deployment; Supports over 100 languages, enabling multilingual OCR capabilities.

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Install

pip install PaddleOCR

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Overview

PaddleOCR is an open-source toolkit for optical character recognition that supports over 100 languages, making it easy to extract text from images or PDF documents. It includes multiple series such as PP-OCR and PaddleOCR-VL with detailed documentation for local deployment.

Capability facts

CLI: CLI entrypoint
Source: pyproject.toml:[project.scripts] · Aug 18, 2026
Languages: python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Aug 18, 2026

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Difyframework RAGFlowframework

README

Step 2: Local Deployment

For local usage, please refer to the following documentation based on your needs:

PP-OCR Series: See PP-OCR Documentation
PaddleOCR-VL Series: See PaddleOCR-VL Documentation
PP-StructureV3: See PP-StructureV3 Documentation
More Capabilities: See More Capabilities Documentation

📄 License

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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