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Mistral OCR 4 converts handwritten calculus exams into clean LaTeX, accurately reading formulas and accounting for graphs, though it does not redraw them. The model provides structured output with bounding boxes and confidence scores in 170 languages.

Mistral OCR 4 turned a handwritten calculus exam into clean LaTeX! We gave it a photo of a hand-written exam page. The model read the handwriting and rebuilt every formula into structured digital text Output: Time: 5.1s · Cost: $0.09 Formulas came through exactly right - the hard part was nailed. The graph, unfortunately, it didn’t redraw. But that’s the telling part: most OCR tools just dump the text and quietly drop the figure. OCR 4 caught the plot, boxed it, and tagged it as a chart. It doesn’t get redrawn, but it gets read and accounted for
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Mistral OCR 4 turned a handwritten calculus exam into clean LaTeX!

We gave it a photo of a hand-written exam page. The model read the handwriting and rebuilt every formula into structured digital text

Output: Time: 5.1s · Cost: $0.09

Formulas came through exactly right - the hard part was nailed. The graph, unfortunately, it didn’t redraw. But that’s the telling part: most OCR tools just dump the text and quietly drop the figure. OCR 4 caught the plot, boxed it, and tagged it as a chart. It doesn’t get redrawn, but it gets read and accounted for

Mistral AI (@MistralAI): Introducing Mistral OCR 4. It creates structure with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores in 170 languages. 🧵👇

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Mistral AI releases Mistral OCR 4, a compact document intelligence model that provides bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores for structured text extraction. It supports 170 languages, runs in a single container for self-hosted deployment, and integrates with the Mistral Search Toolkit for enterprise search and RAG pipelines.