PaddleOCR

Awesome multilingual OCR and Document Parsing toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices) (by PaddlePaddle)

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  • Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2025
    https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

    Personally Iβ€˜ve used Tesseract before but the results were underwhelming, so Iβ€˜m curious how Paddle OCR performs in comparison.

  • OCR4all
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2025
    What kind of accuracy have you reached with this pipeline of Tesseract+LLM? I imagine that there would be a hard limit as to what level the LLM could improve the OCR extract text from Tesseract, since its far from perfect itself.

    Haven't seen many people mention it, but have just been using the PaddleOCR library on it's own and has been very good for me. Often achieving better quality/accuracy than some of the best V-LLM's, and generally much better quality than other open-source OCR models I've tried like Tesseract for example.

    https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/main/README_e...

    https://huggingface.co/spaces/echo840/ocrbench-leaderboard

  • Why LLMs Suck at OCR
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2025
    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, some of them barely readable even for a human taking time to decypher them)

  • Practical Approaches to Key Information Extraction (Part 1)
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2024
    This is where PaddleOCR comes inβ€”it enhances the vision capabilities of the LLM by providing precise OCR text, helping the model focus on exactly what needs to be extracted.
  • Show HN: LLM Aided OCR (Correcting Tesseract OCR Errors with LLMs)
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2024
    Was this by any chance Paddle OCR https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
  • OCR Solutions Uncovered: How to Choose the Best for Different Use Cases
    2 projects | dev.to | 1 Aug 2024
    Budget Constraints: For users with limited budgets, open-source options like Tesseract OCR or PaddleOCR provide good solutions that can be customized to meet specific business needs. Additionally, consider Klippa or API4AI OCR for affordable yet reliable OCR services that work out-of-the-box.
  • Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2024
  • PDF Hell and Practical RAG Applications
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Jul 2024
    Paddle OCR
  • Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2024
    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 steal your data.

    Sort through it to find anything with a credit card number or anything ahead time.

    Or you could look into InternVL..

    Or a combination of PaddleOCR first and then use a strong LLM via API, like gpt-4o or llama3 70b via together.ai

    If you truly must do it locally, then if you have two 3090s or 4090s it might work out. Otherwise it the LLMs may not be smart enough to give good results.

    Leaving out the details of your hardware makes it impossible to give good advice about running locally. Other than, it's not really necessary.

  • Leveraging GPT-4 for PDF Data Extraction: A Comprehensive Guide
    5 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2023
    PyTesseract Module [ Github ] EasyOCR Module [ Github ] PaddlePaddle OCR [ Github ]
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