Mistral OCR
What is Mistral OCR
Mistral OCR is an advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) API developed by Mistral AI. It's designed to extract and structure content from various document formats with high accuracy. The API excels at handling text, images, tables, and equations, preserving the original document structure and layout.
How to use Mistral OCR
- Upload Your Documents: Send your PDFs or images to the Mistral OCR API using a simple API call, specifying the model and document source.
- Process the Results: Receive structured output in Markdown or JSON format, ready for integration with your applications or AI systems.
- Analyze and Extract Insights: Leverage the extracted text, images, tables, and equations to unlock the collective intelligence of your documents.
Features of Mistral OCR
- AI-Ready Output: Outputs in Markdown format, making it immediately usable for AI systems and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Multimodal Processing: Handles text, images, tables, and equations in a single pass, preserving document structure and layout.
- High-Speed Processing: Process up to 2,000 pages per minute on a single node, making it ideal for large-scale document processing.
- Markdown Output: Receive results in Markdown format, preserving document structure and making it immediately usable for AI systems.
- Image Detection: Automatically detect and extract images from documents, with options to include them as base64 or links.
Use Cases of Mistral OCR
- Scientific Research: Digitizing and extracting data from research papers.
- Legal and Compliance: Processing contracts and legal documents.
- Customer Service: Creating searchable knowledge bases from documents.
- Historical Preservation: Digitizing historical artifacts and documents.
- Financial Services: Automating the extraction of data from financial reports.
FAQ from Mistral OCR
- What makes Mistral OCR different from other OCR solutions? Mistral OCR stands out for its unmatched accuracy, especially with complex documents containing mixed content like text, images, tables, and equations. It outputs in Markdown format, making it immediately usable for AI systems and RAG applications.
- What file formats does Mistral OCR support? Mistral OCR supports PDF documents and various image formats including JPG, PNG, TIFF, and more. It can process multipage PDFs and extract content while preserving the document structure.
- How accurate is Mistral OCR? Mistral OCR consistently outperforms leading OCR models in benchmark tests, particularly excelling in understanding complex layouts, tables, mathematical expressions, and multilingual content.
- How is Mistral OCR priced? Mistral OCR is currently free to use. In the future, we may introduce pricing options, such as 1,000 pages per dollar for standard usage and 2,000 pages per dollar for batch processing. Enterprise options with self-hosting may also be available for organizations with specific requirements.
- Can Mistral OCR handle multilingual documents? Yes, Mistral OCR supports multiple languages and scripts, making it suitable for processing documents in various languages and for global organizations.
