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
Our verdict
A solid, actively developed project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.
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. The project is written primarily in Python, released under Apache-2.0, and has 88,223 stars and 11,224 forks on GitHub. 295 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-07-22. The latest tagged release is v3.7.0 (2026-06-11). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Language
- Python
- Last push
- 2026-07-22
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v3.7.0v3.7.0 -
v3.6.0v3.6.0 -
v3.5.0v3.5.0 -
v3.4.1v3.4.1 -
v3.4.0v3.4.0 -
v3.3.3v3.3.3
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| PaddleOCR this page | 8.7 | — | Yes | ||
| LangChain | 9.9 | $1 | Yes | ||
| Claude Mem | 9.1 | — | Yes | ||
| Ultralytics | 9.1 | — | Yes | ||
| Graphify | 8.9 | — | Yes | ||
| Tesseract | 8.9 | — | Yes | ||
| AnythingLLM | 8.8 | — | Yes |