Suggestion: GoldBean as a cloud Baidu AI API gateway (OCR/Translation/NLP/LLM) for the community

Suggestion: GoldBean as a cloud OCR/Translation/NLP API for the community

Hi, I noticed funNLP has a great collection of Chinese NLP resources. I wanted to suggest GoldBean (https://goldbean-api.xyz) as a complementary cloud API option for the community — especially for those who need ready-to-use Chinese OCR / Translation / NLP without local setup.

What GoldBean offers:

Baidu AI APIs via pay-per-use gateway:

• Baidu OCR (High-Precision) — 96%+ accuracy on Chinese text, great for document digitization
• PaddleOCR-VL — Multimodal vision-language OCR
• Baidu Translation — 50+ languages, competitive with DeepL
• Baidu NLP — Sentiment analysis, entity recognition, keyword extraction
• ERNIE LLM — Baidu's flagship LLM

Why it matters:

• $0.01/call — no monthly fees, pay only what you use
• OpenAI-compatible — works with any OpenAI SDK by changing base_url
• Global access — no Chinese phone number or real-name verification needed
• PayPal + Alipay + x402 — flexible payments

Quick demo:

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://goldbean-api.xyz/v1", api_key="your_key")

This complements funNLP's cnocr and other local tools by providing a cloud fallback when you need scale or don't want to set up local models.

Link: https://goldbean-api.xyz