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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 16, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
Mistral Ships OCR 4.1 With Tighter Bounding Boxes on Dense Annotated Pages
The update keeps the June model's pricing of $4 per 1,000 pages, its 170 languages and its published benchmark scores, and targets layout failures rather than character recognition.
Mistral released version 4.1 of its optical character recognition (OCR) model on August 13, an update to the OCR 4 system launched in June. The stated focus is narrow: aligning bounding boxes to every element on crowded, marked-up pages whe…
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