Parse a PDF from your terminal with PaddleOCR-VL-1.6
Details
- External ID
- 49098696
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Parse a PDF from your terminal with PaddleOCR-VL-1.6
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3972520908004779
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Description
I built OpenParser because I wanted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 behind an endpoint I could actually use. Now there are open-sourced CLI and TypeScript/Python SDKs:``` npm install -g @openparser/cli openparser auth login openparser parse sync document.pdf ```That is basically it. It doesnt get easier and cheaper that this. Give it a PDF and get back the text and document structure.Repo: https://github.com/eigenpal/openparserI would love feedback from anyone willing to try the CLI and tell me what is still annoying.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf parsing from terminal using paddleocr-vl
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a wrapper API around an existing open-source model (PaddleOCR-VL) accompanied by a standard CLI and SDKs.
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