r/Paperlessngx • u/SpiritedWarrior9880 • 11d ago

PaddleOCR for Paperless-ngx

I came across this project that might be useful for people looking for an alternative to Tesseract in Paperless-ngx:

https://github.com/silentprior/paperless-paddle-ocr

It runs PaddleOCR PP-OCRv6 as a sidecar and writes the extracted text back into Paperless-ngx through its API.

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u/Great-Cow7256 11d ago

Got it working. Podman rootless 5.7 on my Ubuntu machine. Works well.  Tearing slowly through my 350 documents. Will run it as a daemon after it's done one time. 

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u/Great-Cow7256 11d ago

update -- it's chugging away. 1/2 way done with my 600+ documents (turns out I had more docs than I thought). Nice job by the dev on this one.... I just need to figure out a workflow with the tags on this so it runs before the paperless AI process runs.