Definition
PaddleOCR is an industrial-grade OCR toolkit used in RAG ingestion pipelines to extract high-accuracy text from images and scanned PDFs, enabling the conversion of unstructured visual data into searchable vector embeddings. It utilizes a multi-stage architecture comprising text detection, direction classification, and recognition to handle complex layouts and multilingual documents.
A computer vision tool for text extraction, not a generative language model.
"A high-speed digital translator's loupe that converts physical photographs of documents into a clean text stream for a database."
- Document Ingestion(Prerequisite)
- Multimodal RAG(Implementation Context)
- Layout Analysis(Internal Component)
- Vectorization(Downstream Process)
Conceptual Overview
PaddleOCR is an industrial-grade OCR toolkit used in RAG ingestion pipelines to extract high-accuracy text from images and scanned PDFs, enabling the conversion of unstructured visual data into searchable vector embeddings. It utilizes a multi-stage architecture comprising text detection, direction classification, and recognition to handle complex layouts and multilingual documents.
Disambiguation
A computer vision tool for text extraction, not a generative language model.
Visual Analog
A high-speed digital translator's loupe that converts physical photographs of documents into a clean text stream for a database.