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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.

Why this job: topics: rag, document-parsing, ocr

PaddleOCR Architecture

What it does

  • SOTA Document VLM. Featuring PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 (0.9B), the industry's leading lightweight vision-language model for document parsing. It achieves 96.3% accuracy on OmniDocBench v1.6, leads in text, formula, and table recognition, and shows s
  • Structure-Aware Conversion. Powered by PP-StructureV3, seamlessly convert complex PDFs and images into Markdown or JSON. Unlike the PaddleOCR-VL series models, it provides more fine-grained coordinate information, including table cell coord
  • Production-Ready Efficiency. Achieve commercial-grade accuracy with an ultra-small footprint. Outperforms numerous closed-source solutions in public benchmarks while remaining resource-efficient for edge/cloud deployment.
  • 100+ Languages Supported. Native recognition for a vast global library. PP-OCRv6 supports 50 languages with a single unified model (Chinese, English, Japanese, and 46 Latin-script languages) — no model switching needed for multilingual docu
  • Complex Element Mastery. Beyond standard text recognition, we support natural scene text spotting across a wide range of environments, including IDs, street views, books, and industrial components

Get started

No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)

Maintenance
Active
Last commit 54 days ago
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Licence
Apache-2.0
Allows business use
Downloads for
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No release files
Latest version
v3.7.0
Released 5 months ago
Built with
Python
68% of the code

Is it looked after?

Contributors
1
Last 90 days
Issues
98% closed
170 still open
Pull requests
3,201 merged
91 waiting
Releases
33
7 in the last year
  • No contributing guide
  • No security policy
  • No code of conduct
More: languages, topics and project record

Languages

  • Python 68%
  • C++ 11%
  • TypeScript 6%
  • Shell 5%

Topics

  • ocr
  • chineseocr
  • pdf2markdown
  • pp-ocr
  • pp-structure
  • document-parsing
  • document-translation
  • kie
  • ai4science
  • pdf-extractor-rag
  • pdf-parser
  • rag

Project record

  • JobRAG and search
  • StatusListed
  • Commits6,927
  • Forks11,636
  • Watching567
  • Stars in 28 days+1,604
  • CreatedMay 8, 2020
  • First seen by usNov 7, 2026
  • CheckedNov 9, 2026

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