PaddleOCR Trending at 77K Stars With New RAG-Optimized PDF Extraction

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PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR is trending today at 77,087 stars as the go-to bridge between documents and LLMs. The toolkit now positions itself explicitly as structured data extraction for AI — turning PDFs and images into LLM-ready formats across 100+ languages. Key for RAG pipeline builders who need reliable document parsing without cloud APIs.