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PaddleOCR
Baidu's open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit (Apache-2.0) with the PP-StructureV3 pipeline and PaddleOCR-VL models.
- Baidu (PaddlePaddle)
- Local only
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- SDocuments & OCRParsers & APIs · Local · via PaddleOCR-VL-1.6
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Facts
- Vendor
- Baidu (PaddlePaddle)
- Approach
- Parsers & APIs
- Where it runs
- Runs only on your own hardware
- Interface
- Command line, API
- Skill level
- Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Free open-source software (Apache-2.0).
- Source code
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- GitHub stars
- 91.3k (18 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- SPaddleOCR-VL-1.6Baidu (PaddlePaddle) · open weights