Tesseract OCR
A widely used open-source OCR engine often compared with PaddleOCR in benchmarks.
EasyOCR
An OCR library supporting multiple languages and scripts, serving as an alternative in the OCR category.
MMOCR
An open-source toolbox for OCR tasks, comparable in functionality to PaddleOCR.
DocTR
OCR and document text recognition library competing in the same space as PaddleOCR.
TrOCR
A transformer-based OCR model considered a competitor in OCR benchmarks.