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Learn about how we handle visitor data, our use of cookies, and advertising disclosures on paddleocr.dev.

🔒 100% Offline Software

PaddleOCR is a local Python library and command-line engine. The instructions and tutorials hosted on this site execute strictly on your local computer.

🛡️ No Server Storage

We do not operate backend processing servers that collect, store, or transmit your uploaded images, PDFs, or extracted text data.

✨ Transparency First

We partner with third-party advertising services to manage interest-based ads to fund our community documentation efforts.

Introduction

Welcome to paddleocr.dev. We respect the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy details the types of information we collect or receive, how we use it, and the measures we take to protect it. Because PaddleOCR is an open-source, local character recognition engine, the core tutorials, documentation, and install guides on this site do not collect or process your documents or images.

Advertising & Cookie Disclosures

To support our community documentation efforts, this site may partner with third-party advertising networks (including Google AdSense and Ezoic Inc.). Below is the disclosure regarding advertising services, cookies, and data partners:

Third-Party Cookie Usage

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings.

How We Collect & Use Information

We do not require you to register an account or submit personal information to browse paddleocr.dev.

Log Files: Like most websites, standard web server log files collect non-personally identifiable technical information (such as browser type, referring page, IP address, and timestamps) solely for server performance monitoring, debugging, and security diagnostics.

Children's Privacy

Our website and community guides are intended for software developers, researchers, students, and general technical audiences. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13.

Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or site compliance, please open an issue on the official PaddleOCR GitHub Repository.