French AI startup Mistral has launched Mistral OCR, an optical character recognition API for advanced document understanding.The API extracts content from unstructured PDFs and images with high accuracy, presenting structured data for easier analysis.Unstructured data, which lacks a specific format, includes various data types like images, audio files, and social media posts.With multilingual support and fast processing speeds, Mistral OCR aims to assist organizations in digitizing and organizing their data.The API offers improved document comprehension by interpreting elements beyond text extraction, such as tables and mathematical expressions.Mistral OCR outperforms competitors in math recognition, scanned documents, and multilingual text processing.The API is integrated into Le Chat for document processing and is available through Mistral's developer suite.Mistral OCR's speed advantage allows processing up to 2,000 pages per minute and is suitable for high-volume document workflows.The tool offers efficiency, security, and scalability for document-driven workflows in industries like finance, healthcare, and legal.Priced at 1,000 pages per $1, Mistral OCR is available for developers to test on Mistral's website and plans to expand to cloud partners.