No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
paddleocr has 2.5M monthly downloads and 85K GitHub stars. Version 3.7.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of aiohttp, paddlex and pyyaml. It is used by 118 tracked packages, including abstract-ocr, paddleocr-mcp and utilities-nlp.
GitHub topics include ocr, chineseocr and pdf2markdown.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
98
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,533,079
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,533,079
Stars
84,784
Stars per 1k downloads
33.47
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
90,531
Month daily avg
84,436
Momentum
+7.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
25 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
11.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
335
Monthly downloads
2,533,079
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
87
Issue Burden
1.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
39.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
43.2K
Windows
10.1K
macOS
2.1K
Python Versions
3.12
42.2%
22.4K
3.10
22.7%
12.1K
3.11
19.5%
10.3K
3.13
13.0%
6.9K
3.14
2.6%
1.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
28.7K
US
2.
IE
7.0K
IE
3.
CN
5.6K
CN
4.
IN
2.1K
IN
5.
SG
1.5K
SG
6.
DE
1.1K
DE
7.
RU
1.0K
RU
8.
JP
992
JP
9.
HK
750
HK
10.
NL
720
NL
Dependencies
5
- aiohttp >=3.8.0
- paddlex <3.8.0,>=3.7.0
- pyyaml >=6
- requests
- typing-extensions >=4.12
11 optional dependencies
- openpyxl[all]
- openpyxl[doc2md]
- paddlex[doc-parser]
- paddlex[ie]
- paddlex[trans]
- paddlex[all]
- pylatexenc[doc2md]
- python-docx[all]
- python-docx[doc2md]
- python-pptx[all]
- python-pptx[doc2md]
Used By
118
- abstract-ocr
- paddleocr-mcp
- utilities-nlp
- academia-mcp
- frankenstein-model
- ayase
- cad-cowork-mcp
- finamt
- ppocrlabel
- pylexfluent
- vllama
- airtestproject
- fast-paddleocr-mcp
- gui-agents
- sapiens-frankenstein
- infinite-context
- docslight
- docid
- img4it
- doctra
- lexoid
- langchain-paddleocr
- document-analyzer
- citeindex
- documentai-std
- ha4t
- geniusrise-vision
- flybirds
- llama-assistant
- trivision-ocr
- documents-classifier
- ocrmypdf-paddleocr
- sapiens-file-interpreter
- ocr-translate-paddle
- openquery
- nonebot-plugin-quote
- scrapy-tw-rental-house
- llmdocparser
- actscene-ocr
- paddleocr-haystack
- document-classification
- nonebot-plugin-noadpls
- foil-serve
- ekyc
- airclick
- media-engine
- flexidata
- privision
- nyxpy-fw
- kazuba-converter
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
August 22, 2020
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.7.0
Total Releases
67
Contributors
335
Open PRs
66
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh