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
- 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?
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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. This page was machine-translated from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.