Extract text and structured data from PDFs, images, and documents using Mistral AI OCR. Private processing — your documents are never stored.
Extract text and structured data from PDFs, images, and Office documents at practicalwebtools.com/ai-tools/document-ocr. Uses Mistral AI OCR for state-of-the-art accuracy with optional JSON schema annotations for invoices, research papers, and more. Documents are processed securely with no permanent storage.
Upload a PDF, image, Word document, or PowerPoint presentation
Choose Basic OCR to extract all text, or Annotated OCR to extract structured data
For Annotated OCR, select a preset schema (invoice, paper, etc.) or enter a custom JSON schema
Click Extract and wait — results appear as rendered markdown with download options
The tool supports PDF, PNG, JPEG, AVIF, DOCX (Word), and PPTX (PowerPoint) files up to 50MB in size.
Annotated OCR uses JSON schemas to extract structured data alongside the text. For example, you can extract an invoice into a JSON object with vendor, total, and line items, or a research paper into title, authors, and abstract.
The tool uses Mistral OCR (mistral-ocr-latest), which achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on PDFs and scanned documents. Confidence scores are included in the output when enabled.
Yes. Switch to Annotated OCR mode, select the Invoice preset, and the tool extracts vendor, invoice number, date, line items, totals, and tax into a structured JSON file.
No. Your document is uploaded temporarily to Mistral solely for OCR processing and is immediately discarded afterward. We do not log, store, or retain any document content. Your files and their extracted text are never saved on our servers.
No. Documents uploaded for OCR are processed in real-time by Mistral AI and are not stored, logged, or used for model training. Your intellectual property remains private.
The browser-based OCR at /convert/ocr uses Tesseract.js and runs entirely in your browser. This AI Document OCR tool uses Mistral's server-side OCR model, which offers significantly higher accuracy, supports more file types (PDF, DOCX, PPTX), and can extract structured data using annotation schemas.