Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file

Mistral, a French AI company, has introduced Mistral OCR, an API that converts complex PDFs into text files for AI processing. This multimodal tool detects illustrations and photos within text, outputting in Markdown format. Available on cloud platforms and for on-premise deployment, Mistral OCR reportedly outperforms similar APIs from major tech companies, particularly with non-English documents and complex layouts. It is expected to boost AI assistant adoption in document-heavy companies.