PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR: AI-Powered Document OCR Toolkit Surges to 74.8K Stars

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PaddleOCR, the lightweight OCR toolkit that turns PDFs and images into structured data for AI, has reached 74,804 GitHub stars with support for 100+ languages. The project bridges the gap between unstructured documents and LLMs, making it essential infrastructure for AI document intelligence pipelines. Its rapid growth reflects the increasing demand for document-to-structured-data conversion as AI agents need to process real-world paperwork.