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Changelog

What changed, and when.

2026-09-05 · Launch

  • In-browser text detection and recognition on the homepage and at /detect: PP-OCRv6 tiny and PP-OCRv5 mobile detectors, PP-OCRv6 tiny recognizer, ONNX Runtime Web with WebGPU.
  • Model pages for PP-OCR det, FAST, DBNet, CRAFT, EAST and CTPN, newest first, with results taken from each paper's abstract and table values marked unverified.
  • The CTPN page links to the authors' trained model and lists its size and SHA-256; this site does not host model files.
  • Seven dataset pages, the benchmarks explainer, five guides and a credits page listing every project the site runs on.

Planned

  • Verify the remaining table-derived results against the PDFs.
  • Add DBNet-R18, CRAFT and EAST to the detector's model picker with polygon output.
  • Guides on DBNet internals, OCR benchmarks in depth, text detection in the browser, cloud text detection APIs, and open-source OCR stacks.