paddleocr
by PaddlePaddle
Ultra-lightweight, production-ready multilingual OCR system
PaddlePaddle/paddleocrmixpeek://image_extractor@v1/paddle_ocr_v1Overview
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
Benchmarks
| Dataset | Metric | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICDAR 2015 (detection) | F1 | 87.1% | PaddleOCR benchmarks: README |
| ICDAR 2015 (recognition) | Accuracy | 79.4% | PaddleOCR benchmarks: README |
Performance
Includes detection + recognition pipeline
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Specification
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Add this model to a processing pipeline alongside other extractors. Combine with retrieval stages for end-to-end search.
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