{"name":"mistral-ocr-settings","title":"Mistral OCR settings","tables":[{"heading":"Does the page annotation correct a misread? 275 graded values on 15 form pages","columns":["Where the value appears","Values"],"rows":[["In the OCR text and the annotation","141"],["Only in the OCR text","81"],["In neither: misread or missed","53"],["Only in the annotation: a correction","0"],["All graded values","275"]],"note":"The annotation is filled by Mistral's model from its own OCR text and up to eight figure crops; it never sees the page image. It carries fields for form regions only, so many values appear only in the OCR text."},{"heading":"Seconds per page with each setting (Sep 23 2026, one request at a time, medians of two)","columns":["Page","Page and figure annotation on","Page annotation off","Both off"],"rows":[["Scanned W-2, a form","19.4","5.4","5.5"],["Scanned bank statement","8.7","4.2","3.8"],["Digital contract","2.0","1.6","2.0"],["Page with one figure","Not measured","1.7","0.8"]],"note":"Mistral meters 125 pages a minute. With 12 requests in flight, the page annotation held scanned statements to about 83 pages a minute and scanned forms to about 37. The figure annotation runs once per figure found, so a page without figures doesn't pay for it."},{"heading":"One word in the annotation prompt (Oct 2 2026)","columns":["The prompt asks for","Runs","The fee table came back as"],"rows":[["“every markdown table”","6 of 6 right","A data table, as on the page"],["“every table”","3 of 3 wrong","A form, carrying the 18 fields of the boxed form area on the same page"]],"note":"A Closing Disclosure's closing-instructions page. With “every table”, Mistral counted the boxed form area as a table and bound its 18 fields to the Fee Details table."},{"heading":"Price per 1,000 pages (Mistral OCR 4.1)","columns":["Setting","Price"],"rows":[["OCR","$4"],["OCR with the annotation","$5"]],"note":"From Mistral's model page, read Oct 3 2026."}],"log":[{"date":"261004","line":"New board. The page annotation corrected 0 of 275 graded values on 15 form pages, and makes scanned pages 2–3.5× slower."}],"updatedAt":"2026-10-04T01:04:16.617Z"}