To check the confidence score for each individual character recognized by PaddleOCR, you can modify the decode() function in the BaseRecLabelDecode class. This class is located in your virtual environment at:

venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paddleocr/ppocr/postprocess/rec_postprocess.py

By default, the OCR returns the mean confidence score for all characters in the detected text within a bounding box. Updating the decode() function will allow you to access the confidence score of each character individually after the recognition process is completed.