Cheng Cui
Senior Engineer at Baidu
Head of Technology for Baidu PaddleOCR and PaddleX. He is responsible for the development of vision and OCR models and has contributed to the development of more than 80 models in the PaddlePaddle PP series, including PP-LCNet, PP-OCR, PP-YOLO, and RT-DETR. He has also participated in multiple computer vision projects within the company and holds over 30 domestic and international patents. He has won more than 10 gold medals or championships in international AI competitions, including several CVPR and ICCV workshop contests, and has been invited to give talks. In 2024, his project“Endangered Species AI Guardian 2.0”* won the **2025 Edison Award for Best New Product (Silver Award).
Topic
Latest Technologies and Industry Practices of PaddleOCR
Focusing on OCR-related topics, this talk will introduce the new features of PaddleOCR 3.0 and how these features can work together with large models to enable real-world applications. It will first present the current state of OCR and the challenges it faces. Then, based on these issues, it will introduce the new features of PaddleOCR (including models and official APIs). Finally, it will demonstrate how to efficiently and automatically parse complex documents using Agent tools. Outline: 1. Current status and challenges of OCR 2. Introduction to PaddleOCR 3. Core technologies of PaddleOCR 4. Practical document parsing with PaddleOCR + Agent tools
