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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.

24 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 22 comments · first 2021-01-03 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. …words or having the documents smooshed together because the OCR can't parse the layout? [1] https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
    comment by strangecasts · 2026-08-20 · in Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
  2. This is essentially a (vibe-coded?) wrapper around PaddleOCR: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR The "guts" are here: https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase/blob/7706ef79493c47e8...
    comment by sync · 2026-01-20 · in Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API
  3. Any experience with Paddle OCR? https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR Personally I‘ve used Tesseract before but the results were underwhelming, so I‘m curious how Paddle OCR performs in comparison.
    comment by alex_suzuki · 2025-02-15 · in Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction
  4. …on digital text, so if you're working with handwritten text, take this with a grain of salt. https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/main/README_e... https://huggingface.co/spaces/echo840/ocrbench-leaderboard
    comment by TheNovaBomb · 2025-02-14 · in OCR4all
  5. I tried https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR for my own use case (scanline images of parcel labels) and it beat Tesseract by an order of magnitude. (Tesseract managed to get 3 fields out of a damaged label, while PaddleOCR found 35,…
    comment by zeograd · 2025-02-08 · in Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
  6. Was this by any chance Paddle OCR https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
    comment by constantinum · 2024-08-10 · in Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
  7. …https://github.com/Layout-Parser/layout-parser https://github.com/opendatalab/PDF-Extract-Kit https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR Commercial: https://reducto.ai/ [great, expensive] https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/llama_cloud/llam…
    comment by serjester · 2024-07-30 · in Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
  8. There is English version of the document provided by the official. https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/main/README_e...
    comment by lijunhao · 2024-06-09 · in PaddleOCR: Multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle
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    PaddleOCR: Multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle
    story by thunderbong · 2024-06-09 · 2 comments
  10. One good self-hosted OCR is PaddleOCR, https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR Beats everything else, truly international and multi-lingual, including Chinese (as it is made in China)
    comment by rvnx · 2024-06-07 · in How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
  11. If you want to run locally you can look into this https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR https://andrejusb.blogspot.com/2024/03/optimizing-receipt-pr... But I suggest that you just skip that and use gpt-4o. They aren't actually going to…
    comment by ilaksh · 2024-05-31 · in Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
  12. Other than EasyOCR and Tesseract, PaddleOCR ( https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR ) is probably the most well known open-source OCR solution. What are you planning to do with the text after detecting / recognizing it? How fast does…
    comment by robertknight · 2023-12-05 · in Ask HN: Best way to perform complex OCR task in 2023?
  13. …I'm considering: - https://github.com/mindee/doctr - https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr - https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR (honestly I don't know Mandarin so I'm a bit stuck) - https://github.com/clovaai/donut -- While it's…
    comment by junhoyeo · 2023-10-29 · in Show HN: BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM
  14. …PyTorch ( https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR ). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR ( https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR ) and docTR ( https://github.com/mindee/doctr ).
    comment by robertknight · 2023-07-03 · in OCR at Edge on Cloudflare Constellation
  15. When I was evaluating options a few months ago I found https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR to be a very strong contender for my use case (reading product labels), but you'll definitely want to put together some representative…
    comment by kcorbitt · 2023-05-29 · in Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
  16. I’ve had good results from paddle ocr. https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
    comment by bjacobt · 2022-11-22 · in Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
  17. …Gradio [2] and deployed it on HuggingFace's Spaces [3]. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03144 [1]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR [2]: https://gradio.app/ [3]: https://huggingface.co/spaces
    comment by aliabd · 2021-09-09 · in PaddleOCR: Lightweight, 80 Langauge OCR
  18. Demo is cool, but it tells us nothing about this particular OCR. * Github: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR * PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/paddleocr/
    comment by ShakataGaNai · 2021-09-09 · in PaddleOCR: Lightweight, 80 Langauge OCR
  19. Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
    comment by jonatron · 2021-07-31 · in In-Browser OCR
  20. Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
    comment by jonatron · 2021-07-19 · in Tesseract OCR
  21. …to use for my purposes than messing with Tesseract. https://github.com/clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
    comment by piceas · 2021-07-03 · in Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition
  22. It says it supports 100 languages, for dependencies look here: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/dygraph/requi...
    comment by antman · 2021-01-04 · in PaddleOCR, Multilingual OCR Tools
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    PaddleOCR, Multilingual OCR Tools
    story by bane · 2021-01-03 · 3 comments
  24. I would recommend https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR over the default tesseract. It seems to do a better job these days and uses more modern approaches.
    comment by bane · 2021-01-03 · in Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app