Since its initial release, PaddleOCR has gained widespread acclaim across academia, industry, and research communities, thanks to its cutting-edge algorithms and proven performance in real-world applications. It’s already powering popular open-source projects like Umi-OCR, OmniParser, MinerU, and RAGFlow, making it the go-to OCR toolkit for developers worldwide.
On May 20, 2025, the PaddlePaddle team unveiled PaddleOCR 3.0, fully compatible with the official release of the [PaddlePaddle 3.0](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle) framework. This update further **boosts text-recognition accuracy**, adds support for **multiple text-type recognition** and **handwriting recognition**, and meets the growing demand from large-model applications for **high-precision parsing of complex documents**. When combined with the **ERNIE 4.5**, it significantly enhances key-information extraction accuracy. PaddleOCR 3.0 also introduces support for domestic hardware platforms such as **KUNLUNXIN** and **Ascend**.
- **PaddleOCR-VL - Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B VLM**
**The SOTA and resource-efficient model tailored for document parsing**, that supports 109 languages and excels in recognizing complex elements (e.g., text, tables, formulas, and charts), while maintaining minimal resource consumption.
- **PP-OCRv5 — Universal Scene Text Recognition**
**Single model supports five text types** (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Pinyin) with **13% accuracy improvement**. Solves multilingual mixed document recognition challenges.
Intelligently converts complex PDFs and document images into **Markdown and JSON files that preserve original structure**. **Outperforms** numerous commercial solutions in public benchmarks. **Perfectly maintains document layout and hierarchical structure**.
- **PP-ChatOCRv4 — Intelligent Information Extraction**
Natively integrates ERNIE 4.5 to **precisely extract key information** from massive documents, with 15% accuracy improvement over previous generation. Makes documents "**understand**" your questions and provide accurate answers.
> On October 24, 2025, the PaddleOCR official website Beta version was launched, offering a more convenient online experience and large-scale PDF file parsing, as well as free API and MCP services. For more details, please visit the [PaddleOCR official website](https://www.paddleocr.com).
In addition to providing an outstanding model library, PaddleOCR 3.0 also offers user-friendly tools covering model training, inference, and service deployment, so developers can rapidly bring AI applications to production.
You can [Quick Start](./quick_start.en.md) directly, find comprehensive documentation in the [PaddleOCR Docs](https://paddlepaddle.github.io/PaddleOCR/main/index.html), get support via [Github Issues](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues), and explore our OCR courses on [OCR courses on AIStudio](https://aistudio.baidu.com/course/introduce/25207).
**Special Note**: PaddleOCR 3.x introduces several significant interface changes. **Old code written based on PaddleOCR 2.x is likely incompatible with PaddleOCR 3.x**. Please ensure that the documentation you are reading matches the version of PaddleOCR you are using. [This document](./update/upgrade_notes.en.md) explains the reasons for the upgrade and the major changes from PaddleOCR 2.x to 3.x.
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