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Evaluate PP-OCRv6 online, then integrate lightweight, production-ready OCR with PaddlePaddle, Transformers, or ONNX Runtime backend.

PP-OCRv6 is the latest generation of PaddleOCR’s universal OCR model family. It is designed for real-world text detection and recognition across documents, screenshots, multilingual images, digital displays, industrial labels, and scene text.

The model family scales from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters, with three tiers: tiny, small, and medium. The medium and small tiers support 50 languages, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and 46 Latin-script languages. Try PP-OCRv6 online quickly: PP-OCRv6 Online Demo.

On PaddleOCR’s official in-house multi-scenario OCR benchmarks, PP-OCRv6_medium reaches 86.2% detection Hmean and 83.2% recognition accuracy. Compared with PP-OCRv5_server, it improves text detection by +4.6 percentage points and text recognition by +5.1 percentage points.