Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/odysseus-dev/odysseus/vs/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/odysseus-dev/odysseus/vs/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR.md
Description: odysseus and PaddleOCR share 7 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, onnxruntime, MCP, pillow, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. odysseus is written in Python and PaddleOCR in C++.

# odysseus vs PaddleOCR

odysseus and PaddleOCR share 7 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, onnxruntime, MCP, pillow, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. odysseus is written in Python and PaddleOCR in C++.

- [odysseus-dev/odysseus](https://seerepo.com/r/odysseus-dev/odysseus): Self-hosted AI workspace. 
- [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: FastAPI, uvicorn, onnxruntime, MCP, pillow, beautifulsoup4, Pydantic
- Only in odysseus: psycopg2-binary, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, bcrypt, cryptography, pyotp, faster-whisper, rapidocr, yt-dlp, pypdf, markdown, pymupdf, pdfplumber, qrcode, markitdown, nh3, pypdfium2, youtube-transcript-api
- Only in PaddleOCR: Jetpack Compose, core-ktx, lifecycle-runtime-ktx, AIOHTTP, fonttools, appcompat, constraintlayout, ui-graphics, ONNX, sentencepiece, opencv-python, LangChain, coil-compose, pypandoc, python-docx, puremagic, js-yaml

## Side by side

| | odysseus | PaddleOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 765,982 lines written, 754 code files | 153,989 lines written, 706 code files |
| Who writes it | 11% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 2,596 commits, 95,062 stars | Last push September 16, 2026, 5,137 commits, 92,256 stars |
| Tests | 1,737 test files. 57.3% 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, odysseus or PaddleOCR?

odysseus, with 765,982 lines written; PaddleOCR has 153,989.

The proof: [odysseus-dev/odysseus's code at commit c21980f](https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus/tree/c21980f5a6d1cb84db8c8ab0f488cefc7764eb3f)

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

odysseus, with 95,062 stars; PaddleOCR has 92,256.

The proof: [odysseus-dev/odysseus on GitHub](https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus)

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

odysseus, with 1,737 test files; PaddleOCR has 105.

The proof: [odysseus-dev/odysseus's code at commit c21980f](https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus/tree/c21980f5a6d1cb84db8c8ab0f488cefc7764eb3f)

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

odysseus: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and PaddleOCR's on September 16, 2026.

The proof: [odysseus-dev/odysseus's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus/commits)

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

odysseus: an AI signed 11% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor; in PaddleOCR, 0.3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in odysseus-dev/odysseus](https://seerepo.com/r/odysseus-dev/odysseus/ai)

## Sources

- odysseus-dev/odysseus: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit c21980f (https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus/tree/c21980f5a6d1cb84db8c8ab0f488cefc7764eb3f)
- 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.