PaddleOCR
Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit
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Global Leading OCR Toolkit & Document AI Engine
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PaddleOCR converts PDF documents and images into structured, LLM-ready data (JSON/Markdown) with industry-leading accuracy. With 70k+ Stars and trusted by top-tier projects like Dify, RAGFlow, and Cherry Studio, PaddleOCR is the bedrock for building intelligent RAG and Agentic applications.
🚀 Key Features
📄 Intelligent Document Parsing (LLM-Ready)
Transforming messy visuals into structured data for the LLM era.
- SOTA Document VLM: Featuring PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 (0.9B), the industry's leading lightweight vision-language model for document parsing. It excels in parsing complex documents across 5 major "Real-World" challenges: Warping, Scanning, Screen Photography, Illumination, and Skewed documents, with structured outputs in Markdown and JSON formats.
- 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 coordinates, text coordinates, and more.
- 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.
🔍 Universal Text Recognition (Scene OCR)
The global gold standard for high-speed, multilingual text spotting.
- 100+ Languages Supported: Native recognition for a vast global library. Our PP-OCRv5 single-model solution elegantly handles multilingual mixed documents (Chinese, English, Japanese, Pinyin, etc.).
- 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
- Performance Leap: PP-OCRv5 delivers a 13% accuracy boost over previous versions, maintaining the "Extreme Efficiency" that PaddleOCR is famous for.
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This plugs directly into your AI and gives it new abilities it didn't have before. Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit. Once connected, just ask your AI to use it. It's completely free and works across most major AI apps. This one just landed in the catalog — worth trying while it's fresh.
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Tap "Get" above, pick your AI app, and follow the steps. Most installs take under 30 seconds.
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Imported from GitHub
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