PaddleOCR

PaddleOCR is an awesome multilingual OCR and document parsing toolkit built upon the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework. It provides robust capabilities for text detection, text recognition, and structured document understanding, capable of transforming images and PDFs into structured data (JSON/Markdown) for AI and LLM-based applications. The library is currently at version 3.4.0 and maintains a frequent release cadence, with minor versions released every few months, incorporating new models and features.