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Mistral OCR 4.1
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OCR 4.1 is a new OCR service from Mistral AI that includes native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores. Pricing is set at €3.5 per 1000 pages and €4.38 per 1000 annotated pages.
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- Praise: Mistral OCR is a solid choice for processing old documents with questionable scan quality, striking a good balance between cost and speed.
- Praise: Some users are achieving impressive results with Mistral OCR on handwritten text, showcasing its potential over competitors like ChatGPT.
- Praise: The ability to run an OCR pipeline on rented GPUs at a low cost per page is a game-changer for many users, making it more accessible.
- Concern: High pricing is a major sticking point; at 3.5€ for 1000 pages, many feel Mistral OCR isn't competitive enough versus alternatives like Tesseract.
- Concern: Users express disappointment in the model's performance with intricate text details, noting that even top-tier models struggle in this area.
- Concern: Concerns about trustworthiness arise, as deep learning OCR models are prone to hallucination and may censor sensitive documents.