Stop Treating OCR as Plain Text Recognition: How PaddleOCR Turns PDFs into LLM Ready Data
PaddleOCR does more than convert images to text. It turns PDFs and images with layouts, tables, formulas, and multilingual content into Markdown or JSON that RAG systems and agents can actually use. This article explains PP OCR, PP StructureV3, PaddleOCR VL, practical setup, and production limits.