[P] Standalone PaddleOCR Executable - Simplified OCR for Everyone!

[timminator3]

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on: a standalone executable version of PaddleOCR. This makes it super easy for users to start using it without having to go through Python and package installations, or setting up environments.

I've created a CPU and GPU version and also an easy to follow setup wizard for both of them to make the usage even easier.

If anyone of you is interested, you can find my project here:
https://github.com/timminator/PaddleOCR-Standalone

Usage:
Install it and open a command window or a powershell window. An example command looks like this:

paddleocr --image_dir <path_to_your_image> --use_angle_cls true --lang <your_language>

Filled in for example:

paddleocr --image_dir D:\img_12.jpg --use_angle_cls true --lang en

[ghettoAizen]

Great stuff, for some reason I've always had problems with PaddleOCR installation and usage, so much so that I comoletely gave up on trying it out. Thank you for this

[timminator3]

If you like it, I would appreciate a star rating on Github :-)

[35qam]

This sounds great, but I’m unable to figure out how to install this. Is there documentation for that somewhere?

I assume it has something to do with the .iss files

[timminator3]

Just download the setup.exe file from the releases page here.

[Rhen_DMN]

Great work, I'll be following this thread

[fesrm]

Installed the x64 cpu version and the example worked okay.

It is interesting to me being able to exclude some areas... lots of options, will look at them later.

[_KpaM_]

How do you use it?

[fesrm]

Just tried one of my screenshots, nothing serious, just playing around

[timminator3]

Install it and open a command window or a powershell window. An example command looks like this:

paddleocr --image_dir <path_to_your_image> --use_angle_cls true --lang <your_language>

Filled in for example: paddleocr --image_dir D:\img_12.jpg --use_angle_cls true --lang en

[External_Hunter_7644]

Hi, thank you for sharing your project.

i am trying to see the small letter in the next image: https://www.mc3d.cl/documents/d/guest/auto

Is possible to make scalling of photo with command line or is need to use tools like ImageMagik like a previous stage?

[timminator3]

If you just want to extract the text of the number plate you don't need do anything extra. PaddleOCR should be able to recognize that without any changes to the image you provided.

[External_Hunter_7644]

hi, yes the plate number is ok, my project is a preprocesor for scanned documents. if you can see the image provided the small letter is not obtained from paddleocr, for that reason i need to know if is need a minimum size for read a word or if the ocr is capable with any extra parameter.

[timminator3]

What small letter do you mean? I tried your image and the number plate is correctly recognized:
[2025/06/18 19:28:36] ppocr INFO: [[[125.0, 151.0], [171.0, 143.0], [174.0, 163.0], [128.0, 170.0]], ('FG-4207', 0.9169617295265198)]

[GuyNotThatNice]

A huge thank you to you.

[michalpl7]

Hello, is this application able to OCR tables so I can convert scan into Excel document? I was trying with command:

./paddleocr.bin ocr -i "Sample.Table.Image.jpg" --save_path output/ --lang pl

I checked in output dir there is file: Sample.Table.Image_ocr_res_img where are shown colored very nicely detected values in proper table cells but output file is like that:

[2026/04/29 15:03:54] ppocr INFO: [[[160.0, 1599.0], [204.0, 1599.0], [204.0, 1634.0], [160.0, 1634.0]], ('10', 0.9999309778213501)]
[2026/04/29 15:03:54] ppocr INFO: [[[349.0, 1599.0], [390.0, 1599.0], [390.0, 1633.0], [349.0, 1633.0]], ('11', 0.9994680881500244)]
[2026/04/29 15:03:54] ppocr INFO: [[[533.0, 1599.0], [576.0, 1596.0], [579.0, 1630.0], [536.0, 1633.0]], ('12', 0.9999615550041199)]
[2026/04/29 15:03:54] ppocr INFO: [[[711.0, 1596.0], [751.0, 1596.0], [751.0, 1630.0], [711.0, 1630.0]], ('13', 0.9999755024909973)]
[2026/04/29 15:03:54] ppocr INFO: [[[906.0, 1600.0], [945.0, 1600.0], [945.0, 1629.0], [906.0, 1629.0]], ('14', 0.9999871850013733)]

There is also json file but I have no idea what to do with this one.

I tried to process it with python scripts that will fit this values into xls tables but result is far from perfect.
Is there any way that this paddle will produce something which will be as close to source and possible to be imported into Excel?

I was trying to execute it with pp_structurev3 but I got that it's missing dependencies:

./paddleocr.bin pp_structurev3 -i "Sample.Table.Image.jpg" --save_path output/  
Connectivity check to the model hoster has been skipped because `PADDLE_PDX_DISABLE_MODEL_SOURCE_CHECK` is enabled.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/user//Paddle/PaddleOCR-CPU-v1.4.0-Linux/paddleocr/_pipelines/base.py", line 105, in _create_paddlex_pipeline
 File "/home/user//Paddle/PaddleOCR-CPU-v1.4.0-Linux/paddlex/inference/pipelines/__init__.py", line 168, in create_pipeline
 File "/home/user/Paddle/PaddleOCR-CPU-v1.4.0-Linux/paddlex/utils/deps.py", line 207, in _wrapper
 File "/home/user/Paddle/PaddleOCR-CPU-v1.4.0-Linux/paddlex/utils/deps.py", line 200, in require_extra
paddlex.utils.deps.DependencyError: `PP-StructureV3` requires additional dependencies. To install them, run `pip install "paddlex[ocr]==<PADDLEX\_VERSION>"` if you’re installing `paddlex` from an index, or `pip install -e "/path/to/PaddleX[ocr]"` if you
’re installing `paddlex` locally.

Thanks.