Baidu PaddlePaddle's open-source OCR toolkit for Chinese documents, scanned PDFs, tables and layout recognition.
PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR toolkit based on PaddlePaddle that recognises images and PDF documents and can be used for text detection, text recognition, layout analysis, table recognition and document structuring. It has strong support for Chinese OCR and suits research document digitisation, organising scanned materials and bulk text extraction.
Use cases: Chinese OCR, scanned PDF recognition, table recognition, document structuring, research material digitisation
Note: Recognition of very messy handwriting still needs to be tested case by case.
