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livekitvsPaddleOCR Local

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

livekitPaddleOCR Local
Score80/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 118 in Media Server#35 of 46 in Document Management
GitHub stars21 897138
Stars, last 30 days+822—
Stable releases, 12 months190
Latest releasev1.13.11 · 25 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

livekit scores 80/100 against 44/100 for PaddleOCR Local, so it is the safer default.

livekit ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PaddleOCR Local.

livekit is growing faster right now (+822 stars in 30 days).

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