PaddleOCR

Global Leading OCR Toolkit & Document AI Engine

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PaddleOCR converts PDF documents and images into structured, LLM-ready data (JSON/Markdown) with industry-leading accuracy. With 70k+ Stars and trusted by top-tier projects like Dify, RAGFlow, and Cherry Studio, PaddleOCR is the bedrock for building intelligent RAG and Agentic applications.

🚀 Key Features

📄 Intelligent Document Parsing (LLM-Ready)

Transforming messy visuals into structured data for the LLM era.

• SOTA Document VLM: Featuring PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 (0.9B), the industry's leading lightweight vision-language model for document parsing. It achieves 96.3% accuracy on OmniDocBench v1.6, leads in text, formula, and table recognition, and shows significantly enhanced capabilities in ancient documents, rare characters, seals, and charts, with structured outputs in Markdown and JSON formats.
• Structure-Aware Conversion: Powered by PP-StructureV3, seamlessly convert complex PDFs and images into Markdown or JSON. Unlike the PaddleOCR-VL series models, it provides more fine-grained coordinate information, including table cell coordinates, text coordinates, and more.
• Production-Ready Efficiency: Achieve commercial-grade accuracy with an ultra-small footprint. Outperforms numerous closed-source solutions in public benchmarks while remaining resource-efficient for edge/cloud deployment.

🔍 Universal Text Recognition (Scene OCR)

The global gold standard for high-speed, multilingual text spotting.

• 100+ Languages Supported: Native recognition for a vast global library. PP-OCRv6 supports 50 languages with a single unified model (Chinese, English, Japanese, and 46 Latin-script languages) — no model switching needed for multilingual documents.
• Complex Element Mastery: Beyond standard text recognition, we support natural scene text spotting across a wide range of environments, including IDs, street views, books, and industrial components
• Performance Leap: PP-OCRv6 achieves +4.6% detection and +5.1% recognition accuracy over PP-OCRv5, surpassing mainstream Vision-Language Models. 5.2× CPU inference speedup end-to-end.

🛠️ Developer-Centric Ecosystem

• Seamless Integration: The premier choice for the AI Agent ecosystem—deeply integrated with Dify, RAGFlow, Pathway, and Cherry Studio.
• LLM Data Flywheel: A complete pipeline to build high-quality datasets, providing a sustainable "Data Engine" for fine-tuning Large Language Models.
• One-Click Deployment: Supports various hardware backends (NVIDIA GPU, Intel CPU, Kunlunxin XPU, and diverse AI Accelerators).

📣 Recent updates

🔥 2026.07.22: HPD-Parsing is now available

• HPD-Parsing is a lightweight vision-language model designed for high-throughput document parsing. It adopts a hierarchical parallel decoding paradigm and Progressive Multi-Token Prediction (P-MTP), achieving a peak throughput of 4,752 tokens/s on public benchmarks while maintaining competitive parsing accuracy.
• HPD-Parsing supports both OpenAI-compatible serving and local inference through a customized vLLM runtime, making it suitable for document parsing scenarios with high demands on inference efficiency and deployment throughput.
• See the HPD-Parsing usage tutorial for environment setup, serving, and local inference instructions.

2026.06.11: Release of PaddleOCR 3.7.0

• PP-OCRv6 highlights:

• Accuracy boost: Medium tier achieves +4.6% detection and +5.1% recognition over PP-OCRv5server, surpassing mainstream VLMs (Qwen3-VL-235B, GPT-5.5) with only 34.5M parameters.
• 50 languages unified: Single model covers Chinese, English, Japanese, and 46 Latin-script languages — no model switching needed.
• Specialized scenarios: Major improvements in digital displays, dot-matrix characters, tire prints, and industrial text recognition.
• Faster inference: 5.2× CPU speedup (OpenVINO), 6.1× on Apple M4 (tiny), 0.13s on A100 GPU.
• Three tiers for all scenarios: tiny (1.5M) / small (7.7M) / medium (34.5M) for edge, mobile, and server deployment.
• Model availability: All models are available on HuggingFace and ModelScope.

2026.05.28: Release of PaddleOCR 3.6.0

• PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 highlights:

• New SOTA Accuracy: Achieves over 96.3% on OmniDocBench v1.6, also sets new SOTA on OmniDocBench v1.5 and Real5-OmniDocBench, leading both open-source and proprietary solutions in text, formula, and table recognition.
• Comprehensive Capability Upgrade: Significant improvements in table, ancient document, and rare character recognition, with notably enhanced seal recognition, spotting, and chart understanding across multiple scenarios.
• Seamless Migration: Model architecture is fully consistent with PaddleOCR-VL-1.5, enabling zero-cost adaptation—swap and go.
• Try it now: Available on HuggingFace or our Official Website.

2026.04.21: Release of PaddleOCR 3.5.0

• Flexible inference backends: Seamlessly switch between Paddle static graph, Paddle dynamic graph, or Transformers. PaddleOCR is now deeply integrated with the Hugging Face ecosystem, and 20 major models support Transformers as the inference backend.
• Office documents to Markdown: Convert common document formats such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into Markdown.
• DOCX export for parsed results: The PaddleOCR-VL series, PP-StructureV3, and PP-DocTranslation now support exporting parsed results to DOCX for convenient viewing and editing in Microsoft Word.
• Official browser inference SDK: Released PaddleOCR.js, the official browser inference SDK that supports running PP-OCRv5 directly in the browser.

2026.01.29: Release of PaddleOCR 3.4.0

• PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 (SOTA 0.9B VLM): Our latest flagship model for document parsing is now live!
• 94.5% Accuracy on OmniDocBench: Surpassing top-tier general large models and specialized document parsers.
• Real-World Robustness: First to introduce the PP-DocLayoutV3 algor