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

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