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PaddleOCR

Practical multilingual OCR toolkit

Self-Hosted AI ★ 87.2k 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.

Key features

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

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Mature project with 87.2k GitHub stars
  • Written in Python

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