paddleocr-94b7e827·2 events·first seen Aliases: PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR toolkit built on PaddlePaddle that converts PDFs and images into structured data suitable for LLM pipelines. It supports 100+ languages and is positioned as a document-to-AI bridge. The repository has accumulated nearly 79,000 GitHub stars, with 148 new stars today, indicating sustained community interest.
PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces support for running OCR and document parsing pipelines using a Hugging Face Transformers backend, enabling integration with the broader Transformers ecosystem. The update allows users to leverage transformer-based models for optical character recognition and structured document understanding tasks. This represents a convergence between the PaddlePaddle framework and the Transformers library for document AI workloads.