# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-16T06:12:17.236Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-16/mistral-ships-ocr-4-1-with-tighter-bounding-boxes-on-dense-a
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- Sources: [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/news/ocr-4/), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/23/mistral-ocr-4/), [heise online](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Understanding-documents-instead-of-just-reading-Mistral-OCR-4-is-here-11343515.html), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

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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