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Is open router still sending all OCR jobs to Mistral? I wonder if they're trying to keep that spot. Seems like Mistral and Google are the best at OCR right now, with Google leading Mistral by a fair bit.




(I work at OpenRouter) If you send a PDF to our API we will:

1. Use native PDF parsing if the model supports it

2. Use this Mistral OCR model (we updated to this version yesterday)

3. UNLESS you override the "engine" param to use an alternate. We support a JS-based (non-LLM) parser as well [0]

So yes, in practice a lot of OCR jobs go to Mistral, but not all of them.

Would love to hear requests for other parsers if folks have them!

[0] https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/pdfs#p...


Hey, I'm the founder of Datalab (we released Chandra OCR). I see someone requested it below - happy to help you all get setup. I'm vik@datalab.to


Chandra



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