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.
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What you get
PaddleOCR is a free, open-source AI tool published on GitHub by PaddlePaddle.
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.
GitHub stars: 91,516
License: Apache-2.0 (free to use)
Language: Python
Topics: ai4science, chineseocr, document-parsing, document-translation, kie, ocr, paddleocr-vl, pdf-extractor-rag
Last updated: 2026-09-16
How to get it: open the repository on GitHub, read the README and follow the setup steps. HEEEXY lists it in the Lab because it is popular, actively maintained and openly licensed.
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