# PaddleOCR Multilingual Document OCR and Structured Data Toolkit

> PaddleOCR is a powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit developed by Baidu that converts documents and images into structured, AI-friendly data like JSON and Markdown. It supports 100+ languages with industry-leading accuracy, bridging the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/paddleocr-multilingual-document-ocr-and-structured-data-tool` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/paddleocr-multilingual-document-ocr-and-structured-data-tool`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/paddleocr-multilingual-document-ocr-and-structured-data-tool/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/paddleocr-multilingual-document-ocr-and-structured-data-tool

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# PaddleOCR Multilingual Document OCR and Structured Data Toolkit

PaddleOCR is a powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit developed by Baidu that converts documents and images into structured, AI-friendly data like JSON and Markdown. It supports 100+ languages with industry-leading accuracy, bridging the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- ![python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8~3.12-aff.svg)
- **Comprehensive upgrade of the PP-OCRv5 C++ local deployment solution, now supporting both Linux and Windows, with feature parity and identical accuracy to the Python implementation.**
- **The high-stability service-oriented deployment solution is now fully open-sourced, allowing users to customize Docker images and SDKs as required.**

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- **Documentation has been updated to include key metrics for commonly used configurations on mainstream hardware, such as inference latency and memory usage, providing deployment references for users.**
- ## 🚀 Quick Start
- For local usage, please refer to the following documentation based on your needs:

- Source: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/paddleocr-multilingual-document-ocr-toolkit/)