Turn images and scanned PDFs into plain text.
Extracts readable text from images and scanned PDFs using PaddleOCR, with line-level recognition and optional bounding boxes.
When to use it
Use for extracting text from images or PDFs when line-level text is wanted rather than tables, formulas, or full document layout.
Give it an image or PDF, locally or by URL; it returns the recognized text and the path to saved raw JSON.
What you provide
Requires Python 3.9 or later.
Requires uv to run the bundled scripts and automatically resolve their inline dependencies.
This skill
PaddleOCR
Sends images to PaddleOCR
httpx
Installs the HTTPX dependency