Pyyan / Compare / PaddleOCR vs dots.ocr
OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | PaddleOCR | dots.ocr |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | The classical workhorse, still widely deployed. | Small, multilingual, layout-aware. |
| OmniDocBench | ~82 | ~93 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | Text, tables, receipts | Layout, 100+ languages |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Kind | Classical engine | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | Baidu ↗ | Xiaohongshu ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Best for on-device and offline recognition.
Best for multilingual layout parsing.