# PaddleOCR vs Unstructured

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Unstructured

| Attribute | PaddleOCR | Unstructured |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.9 (16% (low)) | 84.3 (55% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 2 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 549 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 88,309 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR library that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to recognize and extract text from images and PDF documents. It offers a free cloud API service with support for large-scale batch document processing. | Unstructured provides enterprise-grade data preprocessing and ETL capabilities that convert messy, unstructured documents (PDFs, images, tables, etc.) into machine-readable formats optimized for language models and AI workflows. It handles data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and embedding across multiple sources and destinations with built-in security and compliance. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"open_source":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"pay_per_page_api","prebuilt_models":true,"table_extraction":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_api","confidence_scoring":false,"id_document_parsing":false,"rpa_erp_integration":false,"custom_model_training":true,"handwriting_recognition":false,"human_in_the_loop_review":false,"llm_vlm_based_extraction":true,"web_scraping_to_markdown_or_json":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"pdf_and_multimodal_image_ocr_parsing":true,"zero_data_retention_privacy_guarantees":true,"javascript_rendering_for_spa_web_scraping":false,"native_chunking_and_vectorization_for_rag":true,"strict_json_schema_forcing_and_validation":false,"fine_tuned_document_layout_analysis_models":true,"human_in_the_loop_hitl_confidence_review_queue":false,"tabular_layout_preservation_for_complex_tables":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 40 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Airtable"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"SFTP"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"SQLite"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Astra DB"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"IBM Milvus"},{"name":"IBM watsonx.data"},{"name":"Weaviate"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Together.ai"},{"name":"VertexAI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Box"},{"name":"OneDrive"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Dropbox"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"SAP"},{"name":"Teradata"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Codex"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free open-source with cloud API access (20,000 pages/day)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://paddlepaddle.github.io/PaddleOCR/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-20T16:36:20.946Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"15,000 pages/month free","features":["All features included"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Monthly free allowance with automatic resets","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"pages":"15,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-As-You-Go","summary":"$0.03/page after 15,000 free pages; bill capped at $3,000/month","features":["All features included"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based pricing after free monthly allowance","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Multi-user accounts","Dedicated Instance or VPC","Full data isolation","24/7 technical support"],"description":"Enterprise deployment with dedicated infrastructure and support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 15,000 pages/month. Pay-as-you-go at $0.03/page with $3,000 monthly cap. Custom enterprise pricing available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T13:45:12.559Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"page","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 15 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2026-06-11T12:09:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.6.0","date":"2026-05-28T11:42:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.5.0","date":"2026-04-21T08:40:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.4.1","date":"2026-04-14T05:47:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.4.0","date":"2026-01-29T11:19:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.3.3","date":"2026-01-20T07:27:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.3.2","date":"2025-11-13T14:46:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.3.1","date":"2025-10-29T11:49:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.3.0","date":"2025-10-16T12:58:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.2.0","date":"2025-08-21T11:11:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.1.1","date":"2025-08-15T08:55:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2025-06-29T06:57:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.0.3","date":"2025-06-26T10:04:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.0.2","date":"2025-06-18T16:38:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.0.1","date":"2025-06-05T03:27:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v3.0.0","date":"2025-05-20T12:16:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v2.10.0","date":"2025-03-07T07:03:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v2.9.1","date":"2024-10-22T05:57:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v2.9.0","date":"2024-10-18T15:43:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/releases/tag/v2.8.1","date":"2024-07-17T10:48:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.1"}]` | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=paddleocr&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Document AI)

| Capability | PaddleOCR | Unstructured |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Prebuilt models | - | ✓ |
| Custom model training | - | ✓ |
| Table extraction | - | ✓ |
| Handwriting recognition | - | ✗ |
| Id document parsing | - | ✗ |
| Human in the loop review | - | ✗ |
| Confidence scoring | - | ✗ |
| LLM vlm based extraction | - | ✓ |
| RPA ERP integration | - | ✗ |
| Open source | - | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:06:26.014Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*