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bookorbitvsPaddleOCR Local

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

bookorbitPaddleOCR Local
Score74/10044/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#35 of 46 in Document Management
GitHub stars5 899138
Stars, last 30 days+1 221+0
Stable releases, 12 months230
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 74/100 against 44/100 for PaddleOCR Local, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PaddleOCR Local.

If you want the quickest setup, bookorbit is easier to run; PaddleOCR Local needs more configuration.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 221 stars in 30 days).

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