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PaddleOCR Localvssglang

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PaddleOCR Localsglang
Score44/10086/100
Rank in category#35 of 46 in Document Management#4 of 25 in LLM Inference
GitHub stars13838 344
Stars, last 30 days+0+1 936
Stable releases, 12 months017
Latest release—v0.5.22 · 15 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

sglang scores 86/100 against 44/100 for PaddleOCR Local, so it is the safer default.

sglang ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PaddleOCR Local.

sglang is growing faster right now (+1 936 stars in 30 days).

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