paddleocr

by PaddlePaddle

Ultra-lightweight, production-ready multilingual OCR system

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12Mparams

Source Use in Pipeline

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

import { Mixpeek } from "mixpeek";

const mx = new Mixpeek({ apiKey: "API_KEY" });

await mx.collections.ingest({
  collection_id: "my-collection",
  source: { url: "https://example.com/document.pdf" },
  feature_extractors: [{
    name: "ocr",
    version: "v1",
    params: {
      model_id: "PaddlePaddle/paddleocr"
    }
  }]
});