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PaddleOCR license, foundation and stars

ML frameworks · Apache 2.0 (open source) · 92,193 stars

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Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2020.

Latest release

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

About and history
Repository
PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR · created May 8, 2020
Website
paddleocr.com
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
333 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202692,193
Oct 19, 202691,606
Oct 12, 202691,228
Oct 5, 202690,772
Sep 21, 202690,195

Changes

Stars per weekNov 3, 2026

Gains about 333 stars a week, down from 353.

Stars per weekOct 24, 2026

Gains about 353 stars a week, up from 344.

Stars per weekOct 16, 2026

Gains about 344 stars a week, up from 289.

Stars per weekOct 8, 2026

Gains about 289 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR on GitHub.