Mistral OCR 4 beats rivals in 72% of blind tests

Mistral AI released OCR 4, a model that reads text from PDFs, Word files, and PowerPoint presentations while classifying elements like titles, tables, equations, and signatures. In a blind test with over 600 documents, independent reviewers preferred OCR 4's results 72 percent of the time over competing models. The model supports 170 languages and costs $4 per 1,000 pages.