Audience
Developers, businesses, and individuals that need to extract and structure text from documents and images using multilingual OCR and document parsing
About PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR is a leading open source OCR toolkit and document AI engine that turns PDFs and images into structured, LLM-ready data with high accuracy. It is designed to bridge the gap between documents and large language models by extracting, recognizing, parsing, and organizing information from scanned pages, photos, forms, tables, formulas, charts, and complex layouts. PaddleOCR supports more than 100 languages and provides a practical toolkit for building intelligent RAG and agentic applications that need reliable document understanding. Its core capabilities include PaddleOCR-VL, PP-OCRv5, PP-StructureV3, and PP-ChatOCRv4. PaddleOCR-VL is an ultra-compact vision-language model for multilingual document parsing, supporting 109 languages and performing well on complex elements such as text, tables, formulas, and charts. PP-OCRv5 is built for universal-scene text recognition.