PaddleOCR
Free
A popular open-source OCR toolkit from Baidu that handles multilingual text and document parsing.
About Mistral OCR
Mistral OCR is a document understanding model offered through Mistral's API. It reads pages and returns clean markdown that preserves headings, tables, images and mathematical equations, which suits retrieval and analysis pipelines.
It handles many languages and complex layouts, and is built to process large volumes at a low price per page. Self-hosting is available for companies with strict data requirements.
Pricing is pay as you go. It is a good option for developers feeding documents to language models.
Standout features
- PDF and image to markdown
- Table and equation support
- Multilingual
- Layout preservation
- Low cost per page
- Self-hosting option
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