Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/android/nowinandroid/vs/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/android/nowinandroid/vs/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR.md
Description: nowinandroid and PaddleOCR share 4 technologies: Jetpack Compose, core-ktx, appcompat, and coil-compose. nowinandroid is written in Kotlin and PaddleOCR in C++.

# nowinandroid vs PaddleOCR

nowinandroid and PaddleOCR share 4 technologies: Jetpack Compose, core-ktx, appcompat, and coil-compose. nowinandroid is written in Kotlin and PaddleOCR in C++.

- [android/nowinandroid](https://seerepo.com/r/android/nowinandroid): A fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- [PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR](https://seerepo.com/r/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR): Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Jetpack Compose, core-ktx, appcompat, coil-compose
- Only in nowinandroid: androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-navigation3, androidx.navigation3:navigation3-ui, Firebase, com.google.dagger:hilt-android, JetBrains, lifecycle-runtime-compose, androidx.navigation3:navigation3-runtime, androidx.window:window-core, adaptive-layout, adaptive-navigation, foundation-layout, material3-adaptive-navigation-suite, material3-window-size-class, runtime-tracing, androidx.compose:compose-bom-alpha, androidx.compose.material3.adaptive:adaptive, androidx.compose.ui:ui-util, androidx.core:core-splashscreen, androidx.compose.material:material-icons-extended, room-ktx, room-runtime
- Only in PaddleOCR: FastAPI, lifecycle-runtime-ktx, uvicorn, AIOHTTP, fonttools, constraintlayout, ui-graphics, ONNX, onnxruntime, sentencepiece, opencv-python, MCP, LangChain, pypandoc, python-docx, pillow, puremagic, beautifulsoup4, Pydantic, js-yaml

## Side by side

| | nowinandroid | PaddleOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 29,336 lines written, 198 code files | 153,989 lines written, 706 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 1,930 commits, 22,037 stars | Last push September 16, 2026, 5,137 commits, 92,256 stars |
| Tests | 70 test files. 61.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 105 test files. 11% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, nowinandroid or PaddleOCR?

PaddleOCR, with 153,989 lines written; nowinandroid has 29,336.

The proof: [PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR's code at commit dab3fe3](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/dab3fe35379033fdcb2d0e9572fac0b36c9a9ebf)

### Which has more GitHub stars, nowinandroid or PaddleOCR?

PaddleOCR, with 92,256 stars; nowinandroid has 22,037.

The proof: [PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR on GitHub](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR)

### Which has more tests, nowinandroid or PaddleOCR?

PaddleOCR, with 105 test files; nowinandroid has 70.

The proof: [PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR's code at commit dab3fe3](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/dab3fe35379033fdcb2d0e9572fac0b36c9a9ebf)

### Which was updated more recently, nowinandroid or PaddleOCR?

nowinandroid: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and PaddleOCR's on September 16, 2026.

The proof: [android/nowinandroid's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, nowinandroid or PaddleOCR?

PaddleOCR: an AI signed 0.3% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

## Sources

- android/nowinandroid: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 2982e63 (https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/tree/2982e63cb691ad49cd009aab43dc206fee6699c2)
- PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit dab3fe3 (https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/tree/dab3fe35379033fdcb2d0e9572fac0b36c9a9ebf)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.