AI OCR Tools Compared: PaddleOCR vs Tesseract vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR
A real-world comparison of three OCR tools (GitHub data as of 2026-07-29): PaddleOCR (86,469 stars) for multilingual + LLM integration, Tesseract (75,617 stars) for embedded stability, and Unlimited-OCR (20,124 stars) for one-shot long-document parsing. Scenario-based selection guide with 5 pitfall tips.