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Does it handle math expressions (those rendered from LaTeX) well? I've been looking for a good OCR model to transcribe my math textbooks into markdown (obviously ignoring the images and figures) with LaTeX as math expressions, and none of the current OCR models work reliably enough. EDIT: you can try it yourself for free at https://console.mistral.ai/build/document-ai/ocr-playground once you create a developer accoun…
It seems like Mistral is just chasing around sort of "the fringes" of what could be useful AI features. Are they just getting out-classed by OAI, Google, Anthropic? It seems like EU in general should be heavily invested in Mistral's development, but it doesn't seem like they are.
The EU is extremely invested in Mistral's development: half of the effort is finding ways to tax them (hello Zucman tax), the other half is wondering how to regulate them (hello AI act)
Is open router still sending all OCR jobs to Mistral? I wonder if they're trying to keep that spot. Seems like Mistral and Google are the best at OCR right now, with Google leading Mistral by a fair bit.
(I work at OpenRouter) If you send a PDF to our API we will: 1. Use native PDF parsing if the model supports it 2. Use this Mistral OCR model (we updated to this version yesterday) 3. UNLESS you override the "engine" param to use an alternate. We support a JS-based (non-LLM) parser as well [0] So yes, in practice a lot of OCR jobs go to Mistral, but not all of them. Would love to hear requests for other parsers if fo…
From a tweet: https://x.com/i/status/2001821298109120856 > can someone help folks at Mistral find more weak baselines to add here? since they can't stomach comparing with SoTA.... > (in case y'all wanna fix it: Chandra, dots.ocr, olmOCR, MinerU, Monkey OCR, and PaddleOCR are a good start)
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Following the leaders too closely seems like a bad move, at least until a profitable business model for an AI model training company is discovered. Mistral’s models are pretty good, right? I mean they don’t have all the scaffolding around them that something like chatGPT does, but building all that scaffolding could be wasted effort until a profitable business model is shown. Until then, they seem to be able to keep…
>Mistral’s models are pretty good, right Are they? IIRC their best model is still worse than the gpt-oss-120B?
Though I haven't checked other benchmarks and they only report swe
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Someone posted a project here about a month ago where they compare models in head-to-head matchups similar to llmarena https://www.ocrarena.ai/leaderboard Hasn't been updated for Mistral but so far gemeni seems to top the leaderboard.
OCR developers from decades past must be slapping their foreheads now that it seems users will wait a whole minute per page and be happy.
Getting the wrong answer really quickly is not the best goal.
Does it handle math expressions (those rendered from LaTeX) well? I've been looking for a good OCR model to transcribe my math textbooks into markdown (obviously ignoring the images and figures) with LaTeX as math expressions, and none of the current OCR models work reliably enough. EDIT: you can try it yourself for free at https://console.mistral.ai/build/document-ai/ocr-playground once you create a developer accoun…