James Paul 
Mistral AI, the French AI champion of generative AI which weighs $ 6 billion, announces the launch of an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model. The potential for the companies that adopt it is immense.
A “must have” for companies
Because this technology, which has existed since the 1950s, allows Recognize and extract text from images or digital documents. It converts unstructured documents, such as PDFs or images, into structured data, thus facilitating research and analysis. Gold, ” approximately 90 % of global organizational data is stored in the form of documents “Indicates Mistral in a press releaseand it intends to facilitate their exploitation with Mistral OCR.
“” Throughout history, the progress of abstraction and the search for information was the engine of human progress. Hieroglyphs to papyrus, from press to print to digitization, each advance has made human knowledge more accessible and more exploitable, thus fueling innovation “Writes the young shoot.
This multimodal API, accessible via the suite dedicated to developers The platform and via the Cloud partners of Mistral, is able to extract all the content of unstructured documents. It can also detect the presence of illustrations and photos intertwined with text blocks, and then create delimitations around these graphic elements. In the end, All documents are available in a structured manner, organized in an ultra precise manner. According to a benchmark, its capacities are more advanced than other models on the market.
For what uses?
Mistral OCR could be precious for companies that want to develop their own language models (LLM). Because they require this type of data for their training: it is extremely important to store and index data in a clean format so that they can be reused for the processing of AI.
“” This is a crucial step towards the generalized adoption of AI assistants in companies that need to simplify access to their vast internal documentation “Comments Guillaume Lample, co -founder and scientific director of Mistral.
In addition, the model automates the processing of documents, which can reduce manual administrative tasks. He can also quickly analyze reports, contracts or financial documents, in addition to comparing the content of several documents. Mistral OCR also makes it possible to interact with documents through textual orders, and aims to improve the customer experience by optimizing the internal knowledge bases.
- Mistral AI launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal AI capable of structuring the data.
- The use cases for companies are multiple and promise considerable time.
- The model is available via the platform and through the Cloud partners of Mistral.
