Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.
Best matched with other framework tools.
Ultralytics YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 — object detection, instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, object tracking
Best matched with other framework tools.
PaddleOCR has the larger GitHub footprint with 86.0K stars.
PaddleOCR is currently growing faster at +8.4K stars this week.
Ultralytics has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 100/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | PaddleOCR | Ultralytics |
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| Evidence status | Recently verified· 14h ago | Basic listing· 16h ago |
| GitHub stars | 86.0K | 59.7K |
| Weekly growth | +8.4K | +2.7K |
| Health score | Healthy76/100 |
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| Contributors | 295 | 407 |
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| Commits per week | 4.0 | 50.8 |
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| Open issues | 215 | 160 |
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| Language | Python | Python |
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| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
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| Last commit | 21h ago | 17h ago |
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| Last release | v3.7.0 | v8.4.104 |
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