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PaddleOCR

Practical multilingual OCR toolkit

Self-Hosted AI ★ 91.1k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

PaddleOCR is an open-source optical character recognition toolkit supporting more than 80 languages with lightweight detection and recognition models. It can be self-hosted as an OCR service for document and image processing.

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Key features

  • 80+ language support
  • Lightweight mobile models
  • Table and formula recognition
  • Self-hostable service

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Supports 80+ languages
  • Lightweight fast models
  • Commercial-friendly license

Trade-offs

  • PaddlePaddle framework required
  • Docs partly in Chinese

Is PaddleOCR secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for PaddleOCR's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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