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OCRBase: Open-Source PDF to Structured Data Conversion Tool with PaddleOCR-VL

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4mo ago· 3 min readenCode
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Summary

OCRBase is an open-source tool that converts PDF documents into structured data formats (Markdown or JSON) using PaddleOCR-VL models. It offers both cloud API services with a free tier for up to 1,000 pages and self-hosting options with Docker. The platform provides SDKs for easy integration, supports GPU acceleration for performance, and focuses on extracting structured data from documents at scale.

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Turn PDFs into structured data at scale. Powered by frontier open-weight OCR models.
ocrbase.dev parse and extract data from documents up to 1K page for free.
The API will be available at http://localhost:3000. See the Self-Hosting Guide for PaddleOCR setup, GPU configuration, and all environment variables.
ocrbase has two core operations. Both are asyn
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📄 PDF ->.MD/.JSON API & SDK for PaddleOCR-VL with structured data extraction. Self-hostable. - ocrbase-hq/ocrbase

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