No option to plug in other OCR engines
Users cannot add newer or regional OCR engines such as PaddleOCR, Google Vision or Azure to the pipeline.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 30 December 2024 · last reported 19 October 2025
What's going wrong
Several users want Docling to support OCR engines beyond the ones it ships with, naming newer multilingual models and cloud services.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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