# PaddleOCR MCP Server

> PaddleOCR MCP Server — pewee-live-ocr-server. Use this tool when you need to recognize text in images, particularly for Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean languages, to solve problems such as extracting text from scanned documents or photos. It takes images from local paths, URLs, or base64 data as input and outputs recognized text. Ideal for use cases requiring automated text extraction, data entry, or document processing, especially when dealing with multilingual content.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/pewee-live-ocr-server  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pewee-live-ocr-server

## Description

An MCP server wrapping PaddleOCR to provide OCR text recognition for Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean languages, supporting images from local paths, URLs, and base64 data.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.57
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-30

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** media
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/exo9nuovb6)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pewee-live/ocr-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "pewee-live-ocr-server"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pewee-live-ocr-server` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pewee-live-ocr-server/pull`

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