⚠️ Privacy Warning - 隐私警告

IMPORTANT - READ BEFORE INSTALLING:

This skill uploads your files to Mistral's cloud servers for OCR processing.

Do NOT use with sensitive or confidential documents unless:

• You trust Mistral's data handling policies
• You have reviewed Mistral's privacy policy
• You accept that file contents will be transmitted and processed remotely

For sensitive documents, use offline/local OCR tools instead.

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Mistral OCR Skill

A powerful OCR tool that converts PDF files and images into Markdown, JSON, or HTML formats using Mistral's state-of-the-art OCR API.

Installation

# Clone or download this repository
git clone https://github.com/YZDame/Mistral-OCR-SKILL.git
cd Mistral-OCR-SKILL

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

🔑 API Key Setup (Required)

Get your API key: 👉 https://console.mistral.ai/home

Set the environment variable:

export MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_api_key

CLI Usage

cd scripts

# Process PDF to Markdown
python3 mistral_ocr.py -i input.pdf

# Process PDF to JSON
python3 mistral_ocr.py -i input.pdf -f json

# Specify output directory
python3 mistral_ocr.py -i input.pdf -o ~/my_ocr_results

Arguments

Flag	Description
-i, --input	Input file path (required)
-f, --format	Output format: markdown/json/html (default: markdown)
-o, --output	Output directory

Data Privacy

What happens to your files:

1. Files are uploaded to Mistral's OCR API
2. Files are processed on Mistral servers
3. Processing results are returned to you
4. Files are not stored on Mistral servers (per Mistral policy)

For more details, see: https://mistral.ai/privacy-policy

License

MIT