PaddleOCR

PaddleOCR is a document parsing and text recognition tool from the PaddlePaddle ecosystem. Its home page at paddleocr.com redirects to a PaddleOCR page on Baidu AI Studio, which describes it as intelligent document parsing and optical character recognition with support for multiple languages and handwriting. It processes PDFs and images and extracts their text and structure, with stated uses such as converting PDF to Markdown, turning images into text, and structured extraction from documents. The tool is aimed at businesses and individuals who need OCR for office automation, academic research, medical record recognition and contract parsing. The AI Studio page states that PaddleOCR can be used through an API and through an MCP service, so it can be called from applications and from AI agents. The vendor does not publish plan prices on the readable pages, and no pricing page exists at paddleocr.com. The AI Studio page is written in Chinese. The listing sits under image tools, although the product is aimed at document text extraction.