Mistral OCR (Multimodal Document Understanding)
Mistral OCR represents a significant development in document understanding, extracting structured data from complex documents, including equations and nested tables.
🚀 Key Specs (2026 Update)
- Model Support: OCR-Multimodal-1 (native).
- Free Allowance: Trial through “Le Chat” or initial $1 credits (approx 1,000 pages).
- Data Protection: Zero-retention for API endpoints.
- Primary Strength: Context-aware extraction, high accuracy with technical documents.
🗝 Link to Console
- Visit Mistral AI (mistral.ai).
- Navigate to “La Plateforme” and select OCR services.
- Access your API key from the “API Keys” dashboard.
🛠 Usage Example (Python/Mistral)
from mistralai.client import MistralClient
client = MistralClient(api_key="YOUR_KEY")
with open("document.pdf", "rb") as f:
response = client.ocr(document=f)
print(response.content)