Mistral releases new optical character recognition (OCR) API claiming top performance globally

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Well-funded French AI startup Mistral is content to go its own way. In a sea of competing reasoning models, the company today introduced Mistral OCR, a new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) API designed to provide advanced document understanding capabilities. The API extracts content—including handwritten notes, typed text, images, tables, and equations—from unstructured PDFs and images with high accuracy, presenting in a structured format. Structured data is information that is organized in a predefined manner, typically using rows and columns, making it easy to search and analyze. Common examples include names, addresses, and financial transactions stored in databases or spreadsheets. In contrast, unstructured data lacks a specific format or structure, making it more challenging to process and analyze. This category encompasses a wide range of data typ ... Read full article.