---
title: PP-OCRv6 Medium Text Recognition
emoji: 🔤
colorFrom: purple
colorTo: gray
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.15.1
app_file: app.py
short_description: PP-OCRv6 medium recognition — text recognition from images
python_version: "3.12"
startup_duration_timeout: 30m
---

# PP-OCRv6 Medium Text Recognition Demo

This Space demonstrates [PP-OCRv6_medium_rec](https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PP-OCRv6_medium_rec), the medium-tier text recognition model from PaddlePaddle's PP-OCRv6 family.

## About

PP-OCRv6_medium_rec is a 19M-parameter OCR recognition model that supports 50 languages. It takes a cropped image of a single text line as input and returns the recognized text string with a confidence score.

## Usage

1. Upload a cropped image of a single line of text (or try one of the examples)
2. Click "Recognize Text"
3. The recognized text, confidence score, and raw JSON output will appear

## Links

- [Model card](https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PP-OCRv6_medium_rec)
- [PaddleOCR GitHub](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR)
- [PaddleOCR documentation](https://paddlepaddle.github.io/PaddleOCR/latest/en/index.html)