Does BeagleBone Black support PyQt5 and PaddleOCR (Python Packages)? Any specific image or setup required?

General Discussion
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  1. Can I install and run PyQt5 and PaddleOCR on the BeagleBone Black?
  2. Do I need to flash any specific Debian image (e.g., LXQt GUI image) for better compatibility with PyQt5?
  3. Does PaddleOCR work on ARMv7 architecture? If not, is there any lightweight OCR alternative (e.g., Tesseract) recommended for the BeagleBone Black?
  4. Are there performance or resource limitations I should be aware of when using these packages on BBB?
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32 bit ARM

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You can install anything, but performance will be horrible - BBB has 512MB of RAM and 1GHz clock. We tried and were unable to get browser with small Angular application running AT ALL, not to mention it being usable. BBB excels at applications where you need quick reaction to I/O by the virtue of having two PRUs. This is exactly what we use it for - we use encoder and several GPIOs to control production processes. We also connect to few devices via TCP and store some data in PostgreSQL. Data is served via simple HTTP server. This puts CPU and memory at 50-60% at all time. I don’t think you will be able to run interface written in Qt5 (if this is what you want) and OCR at the same time.

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I concur with @jedrzej_dudkiewicz, BBB is simply not made to do anything but the simplest UI.

It just doesn’t have the resources; RT GPIO on the other hand, is where it can really shine.