In a sea of competing reasoning models, the company has introduced Mistral OCR, a new optical character recognition (OCR) API designed to provide advanced document understanding capabilities.

Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models to ingest. LLMs, which underpin popular GenAI tools like OpenAI’s ...

into machine-editable text, or to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme (such as ASCII or Unicode). OCR began as a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial ...