---
name: ocr-67e187c18d1a
description: "Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool, supports Chinese and
  English text extraction from PDFs and images. Use cases: (1) extract text from
  scanned PDFs, (2) recognize text from images, (3) extract text content from
  invoices, contracts, and other documents"
---


# OCR Text Recognition

This skill uses PaddleOCR for text recognition, supporting both Chinese and English.

## Quick Start

### Basic Usage

Perform OCR recognition directly on image or PDF files:

```python
from paddleocr import PaddleOCR

ocr = PaddleOCR(lang='ch')
result = ocr.predict("file_path.jpg")
```

## Dependency Installation

Install dependencies before first use:

```bash
pip3 install paddlepaddle paddleocr
```

## Output Format

Recognition results return JSON containing:
- `rec_texts`: List of recognized text
- `rec_scores`: Confidence score for each text

## Typical Use Cases

1. **PDF Scans**: Use PyMuPDF to extract images first, then OCR
2. **Image Text Recognition**: Perform OCR directly on images
3. **Multi-page PDFs**: Process page by page

## Scripts

Common scripts are located in the `scripts/` directory.


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Source attribution: modbender
Original project: https://github.com/modbender/skill-library-mcp/blob/d9c8fe903b5b4e82237dbe8d0df8567783022e18/data/ocr-python/SKILL.md
License: MIT
License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit
Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Mega AI Hub.

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# Mega AI Hub resource metadata

Creator / publisher: modbender
Original project: https://github.com/modbender/skill-library-mcp/blob/d9c8fe903b5b4e82237dbe8d0df8567783022e18/data/ocr-python/SKILL.md
Attribution basis: Source repository record

Fields of work: Data & Analytics, Marketing, Product Management
Roles: Content Marketer, Data Analyst, Product Manager
Specialties: API, Cross Platform
Tools: Paddleocr
Country applicability: Country not specified
Classification basis: Source catalog labels
Instruction SHA-256: 2674cdfd1c3956146a764249ce26cde3ab08c0796ce585705376c21e05cfc96b