PaddleOCR
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PaddlePaddle's OCR toolkit and model family for document and scene text understanding.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by model releases, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 34%.
Evidence (2)
- 6Hugging Face Blog·6/22/2026model_releasePP-OCRv6 Brings 50-Language OCR to Hugging Face
Hugging Face blog introduced PP-OCRv6, the latest PaddleOCR model family for detection and recognition across documents, screenshots, multilingual images, and scene text. The lineup ranges from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters, with the small and medium models supporting 50 languages and the medium model improving benchmark scores over PP-OCRv5_server.
- 5Hugging Face Blog·5/18/2026framework_updatePaddleOCR 3.5 adds a Transformers inference backend
PaddleOCR 3.5 lets supported OCR and document parsing models run with Hugging Face Transformers as an inference backend by setting engine="transformers". The update keeps PaddleOCR managing the OCR/document parsing pipeline while giving developers a more flexible way to integrate models into Transformers-centered workflows.