OCR Technology: PaddleOCR and Paddle.js Integration
The article explains OCR fundamentals and details how Baidu’s open‑source PaddleOCR suite can be converted and run in browsers via the @paddlejs‑models/ocr SDK, describing model initialization, detection and CRNN‑based recognition pipelines, and presenting benchmark results that show the newer ch_PP‑OCRv2 model achieving higher accuracy and faster inference than the mobile variant.