# Extend vs PaddleOCR — Fit & Features

Canonical: https://trutool.co/compare/extend-vs-paddleocr
Author: Snehil (https://trutool.co/authors/snehil)

Compare Extend and PaddleOCR by use case, features, limitations, and evaluation questions.

## Compare fit, features, and limitations

### Extend
Build document processing workflows with extraction and classification.
Best fit: Data and operations teams extracting or analyzing information.
- Document extraction
- Classification
- Workflow automation
Before you choose: Test accuracy on your own data and document layouts. Review sensitive-data handling and validate extracted or predicted results.
Pricing: https://www.extend.ai/pricing
- [Read Extend profile](https://trutool.co/tools/extend): Read Extend profile

### PaddleOCR
Extract text and document structure with open-source OCR tools.
Best fit: Data and operations teams extracting or analyzing information.
- Text recognition
- Document parsing
- Multilingual OCR
Before you choose: Test accuracy on your own data and document layouts. Review sensitive-data handling and validate extracted or predicted results.
Pricing: https://www.paddleocr.ai/latest/en/index.html
- [Read PaddleOCR profile](https://trutool.co/tools/paddleocr): Read PaddleOCR profile