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collabora-onlinevsPaddleOCR

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

collabora-onlinePaddleOCR
Score62/10085/100
Rank in category#3 of 6 in Office Suites#1 of 4 in OCR
GitHub stars3 38091 926
Stars, last 30 days+33+485
Stable releases, 12 months168
Latest releasehelm-collabora-online-1.3.7 · 23 Oct 2026v3.7.0 · 11 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageShellPython

Which one should you pick?

PaddleOCR scores 85/100 against 62/100 for collabora-online, so it is the safer default.

collabora-online ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for PaddleOCR.

If you want the quickest setup, PaddleOCR is easier to run; collabora-online needs more configuration.

PaddleOCR is growing faster right now (+485 stars in 30 days).

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