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Dang. Super fast and significantly more accurate than google, Claude and others. Pricing : $1/1000 pages, or per 2k pages if “batched”. I’m not sure what batching means in this case: multiple pdfs? Why not split them to halve the cost? Anyway this looks great at pdf to markdown.
Batching likely means the response is not real-time. You set up a batch job and they send you the results later.
I wasn't there to solve that specific problem but it was connected to what we were doing so it was fascinating to hear that team talk through all the things they'd tried, from brute-force training on templates (didn't scale as they had too many kinds of forms) to every vendor solution under the sun (none worked quite as advertised on their data)..
I have to imagine this is a problem shared by so many companies.
Dang. Super fast and significantly more accurate than google, Claude and others. Pricing : $1/1000 pages, or per 2k pages if “batched”. I’m not sure what batching means in this case: multiple pdfs? Why not split them to halve the cost? Anyway this looks great at pdf to markdown.
e.g. you submit multiple requests (pdfs) in one call, and get back an id for the batch. You then can check on the status of that batch and get the results for everything when done.
It lets them use their available hardware to it's full capacity much better.
They say: "releasing the API mistral-ocr-latest at 1000 pages / $" I had to reread that a few times. I assume this means 1000pg/$1 but I'm still not sure about it.
The Hebrew output had no correspondence to the text whatsoever (in context, there was an English translation, and the Hebrew produced was a back-translation of that).
Their benchmark results are impressive, don't get me wrong. But I'm a little disappointed. I often read multilingual document scans in the humanities. Multilingual (and esp. bidi) OCR is challenging, and I'm always looking for a better solution for a side-project I'm working on (fixpdfs.com).
Also, I thought OCR implied that you could get bounding boxes for text (and reconstruct a text layer on a scan, for example). Am I wrong, or is this term just overloaded, now?
It's only a matter of time before "browsing" means navigating HTTP sites via LLM prompts. although, I think it is critical that LLM input should NOT be restricted to verbal cues. Not everyone is an extrovert that longs to hear the sound of their own voices. A lot of human communication is non-verbal.
Once we get over the privacy implications (and I do believe this can only be done by worldwide legislative efforts), I can imagine looking at a "website" or video, and my expressions, mannerisms and gestures will be considered prompts.
At least that is what I imagine the tech would evolve into in 5+ years.
They say: "releasing the API mistral-ocr-latest at 1000 pages / $" I had to reread that a few times. I assume this means 1000pg/$1 but I'm still not sure about it.
Does it do hand written notes and annotations? What about meta information like highlighting? I am also curious if LLMs will get better because more access to information if it can be effectively extracted from PDFs.
I was just watching a science-related video containing math equations. I wondered how soon will I be able to ask the video player "What am I looking at here, describe the equations" and it will OCR the frames, analyze them and explain them to me. It's only a matter of time before "browsing" means navigating HTTP sites via LLM prompts. although, I think it is critical that LLM input should NOT be restricted to verbal…