Use Case
Stop doing repetitive documents & notes tasks manually. OCR with python lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. Extract Chinese and English text from images and scanned PDFs, including documents like invoices and contracts, using PaddleOCR in Python. This guide shows practical examples of using OCR with python to automate common documents & notes workflows and save hours every week.
Install OCR with python: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install ocr-python
Identify the repetitive documents & notes tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
OCR with python will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing OCR with python
Automate my documents & notes tasks using OCR with python
What repetitive tasks can OCR with python handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs OCR with python every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install ocr-pythonOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install ocr-pythonβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/ocr-python/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.