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openHABvsPaddleOCR

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

openHABPaddleOCR
Score66/10085/100
Rank in category#11 of 104 in Home Automation#1 of 4 in OCR
GitHub stars1 16091 938
Stars, last 30 days+18+497
Stable releases, 12 months07
Latest release—v3.7.0 · 11 Jun 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseEPL-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

PaddleOCR scores 85/100 against 66/100 for openHAB, so it is the safer default.

PaddleOCR ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for openHAB.

PaddleOCR is growing faster right now (+497 stars in 30 days).

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