WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/DocumentAI_OCR/paddleocr.md

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
• End-to-end knobs: Retrieval Playbook
• Traceability schema: Retrieval Traceability
• Schema contracts: Data Contracts
• Embedding vs meaning: Embedding ≠ Semantic
• Chunking rules: Chunking Checklist
• Injection risks: Prompt Injection

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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, Data Contracts

• Bounding boxes drift (word cropped or merged incorrectly)
  → Retrieval Traceability, enforce field anchors

• Long text lines wrapped unpredictably
  → Chunking Checklist

• Injected noise from non-text graphics
  → Prompt Injection

• Low recall on handwriting or distorted fonts
  → Entropy Collapse

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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

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
• Schema mismatch across languages → Data Contracts
• ΔS unstable across seeds → Embedding ≠ Semantic

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🔗 Quick-Start Downloads (60 sec)

Tool	Link	3-Step Setup
WFGY 1.0 PDF	Engine Paper	1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Upload to your LLM · 3️⃣ Ask “Answer using WFGY + <your question>”
TXT OS (plain-text OS)	TXTOS.txt	1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3️⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly

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