
PaddleOCR
by PaddlePaddle (organization)
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. (description from the project’s GitHub page)
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- 91,313
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- 11,517
- Open issues and pull requests
- 250
- Primary language
- Python
- License
- Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
- Owner
- PaddlePaddle · Organization
- Created
- May 8, 2020
- Last push
- Sep 16, 2026
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