Mistral OCR Latest API

Mistral OCR is a document understanding model for extracting text and structured content from PDFs and images.

Modalities: ImageText
Model type: Document OCR
Released: Dec 16, 2025

Mistral OCR Latest overview

Mistral OCR Latest by Mistral AI

Mistral OCR API transforms PDFs and images into structured Markdown or JSON, extracting text, tables, equations, and multilingual content.

Mistral OCR Latest specs

Model ID: mistral/mistral-ocr-latest
Developer: Mistral AI
Input: Image
Output: Text
Endpoint: POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/ocr

Mistral OCR Description

Mistral OCR, developed by Mistral AI, is an advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) API designed for superior document understanding. It processes PDFs, images, and scanned documents, extracting text, tables, equations, and images with high accuracy while preserving document structure.

Performance Benchmarks

Mistral OCR leverages a transformer-based architecture with specialized attention mechanisms to understand document context and layout. It supports multimodal inputs (PDFs, images) and outputs structured formats like Markdown and JSON, optimized for integration with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

Context Window: Processes up to 1000 pages per request.
Benchmarks:
- Overall Accuracy: 94.89% (outperforms Google Document AI, Azure OCR, GPT-4o)
- Mathematical Expressions: 94.29%
Performance: Processes up to 2000 pages per minute on a single node.
Limitations:
- Maximum page count: 1000 pages

Key Capabilities

Mistral OCR redefines document processing by combining AI-driven text extraction with deep layout understanding, supporting thousands of languages and complex document elements like LaTeX, tables, and images. It outputs structured data for seamless integration into AI workflows.

High-Accuracy Text Extraction

Achieves 94.89% overall accuracy, outperforming competitors in extracting text from scanned documents, handwritten notes, and multilingual content, ensuring reliable data for downstream applications.

Multimodal Document Understanding

Processes PDFs and images, recognizing interleaved images, tables, charts, and mathematical equations, preserving their context and relationships in structured Markdown or JSON outputs.

Multilingual Proficiency

Supports thousands of languages with 99.02% fuzzy match accuracy, making it ideal for global organizations processing diverse document sets, from Hindi to Chinese.

Use cases

Enterprise AI workflows for document processing, compliance, customer service automation
Research institutions digitizing and structuring scientific papers and journals
Cultural and historical heritage digitization and preservation
Legal, educational, and technical document automation and analysis
AI-enabled content indexing for search engines, chatbots, and knowledge management systems

How to use the Mistral OCR Latest API

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Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.

1Get your API key

Create API key

export AIMLAPI_KEY="8f2b4c7d9a1e6b3f…"

2Make your first request

curl 'https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/ocr' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr-latest",
  "document": null
}'

import os
import requests

headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AIMLAPI_KEY']}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
    "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr-latest",
    "document": null
}

response = requests.post("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/ocr", headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=120)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/ocr", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr-latest",
    "document": null
  }),
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.json());

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Mistral OCR Latest FAQ

What inputs and outputs does Mistral OCR Latest support?

Mistral OCR Latest takes document, image as input and returns text.

When was Mistral OCR Latest released?

Mistral OCR Latest became available on December 16, 2025.

How much does Mistral OCR Latest cost?

Mistral OCR Latest is priced at $0.001 / page.

How is Mistral OCR Latest billed?

Mistral OCR Latest is billed per generation, a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

Who created Mistral OCR Latest?

Mistral OCR Latest was built by Mistral AI.

How do I call Mistral OCR Latest on AI/ML API?

Send a request to v1/ocr with mistral/mistral-ocr-latest as the model id.

Is Mistral OCR Latest available through a single API key?

Yes. Mistral OCR Latest is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

What is the model id for Mistral OCR Latest?

The model id is mistral/mistral-ocr-latest.

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