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Mistral OCR

Mistral's document-understanding model. Specialised OCR — extracts structured text, tables, and layout from PDFs and scans with strong multilingual support.

Modality
Vision
License
Proprietary (Proprietary)
Released
March 6, 2025
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Runs locally
No

Strengths

  • Layout-aware extraction (tables, columns, math)
  • Multilingual
  • EU-jurisdiction provider

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights
  • Single-purpose — not a general vision model

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
Mistral La Plateforme hosted-api API key required
Le Chat product Document mode

Official sources

Change log

  • — Initial entry.
  • — Marked deprecated after verification that OCR 3 is the current Mistral OCR offering.

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