RapidOCR

Use it when

• Text must be extracted from images with Chinese and English content fully offline, without sending documents to a cloud OCR API
• PaddleOCR accuracy is wanted but the Paddle runtime is too heavy; ONNX-based inference on CPU-only or edge devices is needed

What it solves

Not the fit when

• semantic document understanding or table structure recovery
• languages outside the published model list without fine-tuning
• OCR model copyright rests with Baidu per the license note
• layout-aware pdf structure extraction
• handwriting-specific recognition guarantees
• training ocr models from scratch

Install

pip install rapidocr onnxruntime

Invoke

from rapidocr import RapidOCR; engine = RapidOCR(); result = engine(img_path_or_url); result.vis("vis_result.jpg")

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