Mistral AI has released OCR 4, a new model that reads text from various documents and identifies elements like titles, tables, and signatures. Unlike previous versions, OCR 4 provides confidence scores and supports 170 languages, including less common ones. In a blind test, independent reviewers preferred OCR 4’s results 72% of the time. This advancement matters because it brings more accurate and structured document analysis to AI systems, potentially improving their ability to process and search large volumes of text.