PaddleOCR Trends at 77,037 Stars — PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 Hits 94.5% on OmniDocBench, Browser JS SDK Enables Client-Side OCR

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PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR continues to gain momentum at 77,037 stars with two major recent developments: PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 achieves 94.5% accuracy on the authoritative OmniDocBench v1.5 benchmark, surpassing top global general-purpose and document-specific models, while the new PaddleOCR.js browser SDK enables running PP-OCRv5 directly in the browser without server calls. The toolkit now supports 106 languages, DOCX format export, and deep Hugging Face integration with 20 major models supporting Transformers as inference backend. For builders integrating OCR into AI pipelines, PaddleOCR has become the LLM-native document processing standard.