OCR tool that prepares documents for artificial intelligence
Developed by PaddlePaddle, PaddleOCR is a lightweight optical character recognition tool that converts PDF and visual documents into structured data for large language models. This library, which supports more than 100 languages, standardizes the data flow between visual content and artificial intelligence models.
Updates
- October 15, 2026: Stars 86,787 → 91,141, latest release v3.7.0 (June 11, 2026).
- August 2, 2026: Stars 80,160 → 86,787, latest release v3.7.0 (June 11, 2026).
What you get
- Converts PDFs and images to JSON or Markdown format
- Recognizes more than 100 languages with a single model
- Provides high accuracy with low resource usage
Installation
pip install paddleocrIf you don't write code
I want to convert the PDF and visual documents I have into structured data that artificial intelligence models can process. How can I convert the text, tables and formulas in my documents to Markdown or JSON format with the highest accuracy, using models such as PP-OCRv6 or HPD-Parsing from PaddleOCR? Which configuration settings should I choose for high efficiency and speed in this process?
Repository: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.
Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.
Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.
Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.
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TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-06-05: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. The introductory text was prepared with AI from the repository's own documentation, and this page was machine-translated from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.