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Post by JGB100 »

Not well tested. It switched all U.S. (") double quotation marks to UK-style (') single quotation marks, ignoring the source document. Useless in the US.

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Post by civet_java »

sreekanth850 wrote: post #67

Tested with Malayalam, normal handwriting got accurate but a slight different style got detected as kannada. Have samples if required, which sarvam got done with 99% accuracy leaving one text error.

I'm curious what's been your experience with Sarvam outside of Indic languages - Indian English (perhaps mixed with romanised indic verbiage) and also documents with complex layouts (figures, tables, etc).

I've been quite curious but hesitant about Indian offerings, particularly because they seem to be priced a little higher than what I would think they should be (I could be wrong and simply be misrembering though).

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Post by throwa356262 »

rjzzleep wrote: post #40
andrewmutz wrote: post #35

A tangential observation: the video on the linked page wasn't what I expected. I thought Mistral was a european AI company, so I didnt expect the video to be filmed in San Francisco featuring three people who don't seem to be european. I'm not against them being a global organization, that's wonderful. I was just surprised. I expected a parisian office and european accents.

Unfortunately Europeans are terrible customers for making money. They ask a lot of questions and they're very stingy with their wallets. Americans on the other hand ...

Oh come on!

Mistral has a successful business model and is actually making money. Not sure opening and anthropic are doing that yet.

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Post by trilogic »

Mistral keeps reminding us that doesn´t just brew great coffee, they can build great AI too. Hats off to the team. Mistral O.C.R. (Only Cool Results)

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Post by ericyd »

I’ve always thought the US Postal Service is such a technological marvel. They somehow manage to identify and route billions of pieces of mail and I have to imagine their tech is significantly more primitive than this. Not only that but US addresses are absurdly non-standardized, you can often write the same address multiple ways and have it deliver to the same location. I’m sure there’s plenty of published knowledge in this area, but whenever I see announcements about OCR it feels like this should be a solved problem if it’s been accomplished at the scale of USPS for many years.

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Post by alberth »

ericyd wrote: post #77

I’ve always thought the US Postal Service is such a technological marvel. They somehow manage to identify and route billions of pieces of mail and I have to imagine their tech is significantly more primitive than this. Not only that but US addresses are absurdly non-standardized, you can often write the same address multiple ways and have it deliver to the same location. I’m sure there’s plenty of published knowledge…

Great video by Tom Scott on this subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

Re: Mistral OCR 4

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Post by coulix »

themanmaran wrote: post #56

It's cheap at $4/1k, but I'm hesitant to even benchmark this one again since the previous versions were all "98% accurate based on internal benchmarks of 4 pdfs" and ended up falling short of almost everything else on the market [1]. Even in this one, they just report that OlmOCRBench and OmniDocBench have "known limitations" and that's why they report flagship numbers from their internal benchmark. https://getomni.a…

True, same conclusion, but the few samples I tried showed some real improvements since dec 2025 version.

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Post by utopiah »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #17
utopiah wrote: post #8

" A note on out-of-scope use. OCR 4 is a document-understanding model, not a decision-maker. It is not intended for medical diagnosis, legal advice or judgment, high-stakes financial decisions, safety-critical systems, real-time/latency-sensitive processing, or non-document inputs (raw audio, video, etc.). " Can't wait for the "oh so innovative" manager who will suggest during the next meeting "Ok... but what if WE u…

Why would anybody do that you would simply get terrible results compared to dozens of other more capable models. It's for converting to text not answering questions. Just seems like you need some sort of weird angle to bring out an anti AI stance

Guess you haven't met management yet. Clearly nobody should do that but that official warning is not going to stop them from trying.
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