Optical Character Recognition API Turns PDFs Into AI-Ready Markdown Files
Mistral's new OCR API is a multimodal tool that can turn any PDF document into a text file formatted in Markdown, a syntax used by large language models for their training data sets. This technology has become crucial for companies to store and index data in a clean format for AI processing. The API performs better than those from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI on complex documents, including mathematical expressions and non-English texts.
- The widespread adoption of AI assistants will depend on the ability of developers to seamlessly integrate multimodal documents into their workflow, which Mistral's OCR API is well-positioned to address.
- How will the use of standardized document formats like Markdown affect the democratization of access to data-driven insights in industries that rely heavily on AI and automation?