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OCRFeeder vs PaddleOCR: catalog facts
OCRFeeder	PaddleOCR
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.
Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Automatic layout analysis separating text from graphics Manual correction of text, boxes and paragraph styles	Parses layout, tables and formulas, not just lines of text Outputs JSON and Markdown ready for downstream processing
Linux only Its old wiki homepage has been retired	Built on the PaddlePaddle framework, which is a large dependency Much of the documentation and community is in Chinese
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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