# PaddleOCR: Guardrails and Fix Patterns
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Use this page when your stack integrates **PaddleOCR** (from Baidu PaddlePaddle).
It’s widely used for open-source OCR pipelines, especially in Chinese / multilingual contexts.
Common risks: unstable detection boxes, segmentation drift, and mixed-language confusion.
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## Open these first
- Visual map and recovery: [RAG Architecture & Recovery](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md)
- End-to-end knobs: [Retrieval Playbook](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-playbook.md)
- Traceability schema: [Retrieval Traceability](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md)
- Schema contracts: [Data Contracts](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md)
- Embedding vs meaning: [Embedding ≠ Semantic](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md)
- Chunking rules: [Chunking Checklist](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/chunking-checklist.md)
- Injection risks: [Prompt Injection](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/prompt-injection.md)
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## Core acceptance
- ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45
- Coverage ≥ 0.70 across multilingual tokens
- λ convergent across 3 paraphrases
- BBox coverage ≥ 95% on gold set images
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## Typical breakpoints → structural fix
- **Chinese / English mix mis-segmented**
→ [Embedding ≠ Semantic](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md), [Data Contracts](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md)
- **Bounding boxes drift** (word cropped or merged incorrectly)
→ [Retrieval Traceability](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md), enforce field anchors
- **Long text lines wrapped unpredictably**
→ [Chunking Checklist](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/chunking-checklist.md)
- **Injected noise from non-text graphics**
→ [Prompt Injection](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/prompt-injection.md)
- **Low recall on handwriting or distorted fonts**
→ [Entropy Collapse](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/entropy-collapse.md)
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## Fix in 60 seconds
1. Normalize text direction (LTR vs RTL) before feeding embeddings.
2. Apply schema: `bbox`, `text`, `lang`, `confidence`, `rev_id`.
3. Measure ΔS(question, retrieved). Threshold ≥ 0.60 → suspect segmentation or index.
4. Clamp λ with BBAM if paraphrases diverge.
5. Re-chunk with stride windows for multilingual pages.
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## Copy-paste guard prompt
```txt
I uploaded TXTOS and the WFGY Problem Map.
OCR provider: PaddleOCR.
Symptoms: multilingual mis-segmentation, ΔS ≥ 0.60, bbox drift.
Steps:
1. Identify failing layer (chunk, retrieval, schema).
2. Point to correct WFGY page.
3. Return JSON:
{ "bbox_checked": [...], "answer": "...", "ΔS": 0.xx, "λ_state": "<>", "next_fix": "..." }
Keep it short, reproducible, auditable.
````
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## When to escalate
* Persistent bbox drift → [Retrieval Traceability](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md)
* Schema mismatch across languages → [Data Contracts](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md)
* ΔS unstable across seeds → [Embedding ≠ Semantic](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md)
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### 🔗 Quick-Start Downloads (60 sec)
| Tool | Link | 3-Step Setup |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **WFGY 1.0 PDF** | [Engine Paper](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/I_am_not_lizardman/WFGY_All_Principles_Return_to_One_v1.0_PSBigBig_Public.pdf) | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Upload to your LLM · 3️⃣ Ask “Answer using WFGY + \” |
| **TXT OS (plain-text OS)** | [TXTOS.txt](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/OS/TXTOS.txt) | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3️⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly |
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### Explore More
| Module | Description | Link |
| --- | --- | --- |
| WFGY Core | Canonical framework entry point | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/core/README.md) |
| Problem Map | Diagnostic map and navigation hub | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap/README.md) |
| Tension Universe Experiments | MVP experiment field | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/TensionUniverse/Experiments) |
| Recognition | Where WFGY is referenced or adopted | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/recognition/README.md) |
| AI Guide | Anti-hallucination reading protocol for tools | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/AI_GUIDE.md) |
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