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    PyTorchOCRApache 2.0

    paddleocr

    by PaddlePaddle

    Ultra-lightweight, production-ready multilingual OCR system

    Identifiers
    Model ID
    PaddlePaddle/paddleocr
    Feature URI
    mixpeek://image_extractor@v1/paddle_ocr_v1

    Overview

    PaddleOCR is a comprehensive OCR toolkit supporting 80+ languages with extremely lightweight models suitable for both server and mobile deployment. It combines text detection (DB), text direction classification, and text recognition (CRNN) in a unified pipeline.

    On Mixpeek, PaddleOCR is the go-to choice for multilingual text extraction and high-throughput OCR processing of documents, images, and video frames.

    Architecture

    Three-stage pipeline: (1) DB text detector for localizing text regions, (2) text direction classifier, (3) CRNN-based text recognizer. PP-OCRv4 variant uses knowledge distillation for 4x smaller model with minimal accuracy loss.

    Mixpeek SDK Integration

    // No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
    // GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so paddleocr runs
    // on your side and the output is upserted through POST
    // /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
    // path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
    // accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
    const res = await fetch(
      "https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
      {
        method: "POST",
        headers: {
          Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({
          collection_id: "col_your_collection",
          documents: [
            {
              document_id: "asset-00412",
              // The model produces text, so it lands in payload. Give the
              // collection a text vector index and embed that text to make it
              // searchable rather than only filterable.
              payload: { extracted_text: modelOutput, source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
              vectors: { "text-embedding": embeddingOfModelOutput },
            },
          ],
        }),
      },
    );
    
    // Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
    // universal_extractor@v1 runs google/gemini-embedding-2
    // (3072-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.

    Capabilities

    • 80+ language support including CJK, Arabic, Devanagari
    • Text detection, recognition, and layout analysis
    • Ultra-lightweight models (< 10MB for mobile)
    • Table recognition and key-value extraction

    Use Cases on Mixpeek

    Multilingual document processing across global content libraries
    High-throughput OCR for large-scale document digitization
    Real-time text extraction from live video feeds

    Benchmarks

    DatasetMetricScoreSource
    ICDAR 2015 (detection)F187.1%PaddleOCR benchmarks: README
    ICDAR 2015 (recognition)Accuracy79.4%PaddleOCR benchmarks: README

    Performance

    Input Sizevariable (auto-resize)
    GPU Latency~12ms / page (A100)
    CPU Latency~85ms / page
    GPU Throughput~83 pages/sec (A100)
    GPU Memory~0.6 GB

    Includes detection + recognition pipeline

    Specification

    FrameworkPyTorch
    OrganizationPaddlePaddle
    FeatureOCR
    Outputtext + bbox
    Modalitiesvideo, image, document
    RetrieverText-in-Image
    Parameters12M
    LicenseApache 2.0
    Downloads/moN/A

    Build a pipeline with paddleocr

    Add this model to a processing pipeline alongside other extractors. Combine with retrieval stages for end-to-end search.

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