Mistral OCR 4 - Hackdot

Re:Mistral OCR 4 by utopiah on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:04AM (#48646155)

"A note on out-of-scope use. OCR 4 is a document-understanding model, not a decision-maker. It is not intended for medical diagnosis, legal advice or judgment, high-stakes financial decisions, safety-critical systems, real-time/latency-sensitive processing, or non-document inputs (raw audio, video, etc.). "

Can't wait for the "oh so innovative" manager who will suggest during the next meeting "Ok... but what if WE used it for high-stakes financial decisions on non-document inputs like a photo from my phone?"

I guarantee you somebody on HN is going to comment about this "idea" next week.

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:17AM (#48646409)

Why would anybody do that you would simply get terrible results compared to dozens of other more capable models. It's for converting to text not answering questions. Just seems like you need some sort of weird angle to bring out an anti AI stance

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by alex43578 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:34AM (#48646709)

I think his comment is referring to a scenario where a decision is made on financial numbers that are misrecognized. E.g. 9.0% actual is OCR’d as 90%

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:42PM (#48653669)

I don't think so

But anyways just a side note one way to help reduce these errors is if you pass in both the original image and the OCR'd text to the models that make the decisions

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by utopiah on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:24PM (#48649196)

Guess you haven't met management yet. Clearly nobody should do that but that official warning is not going to stop them from trying.

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by leoc on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:53AM (#48647005)

“I delegated critical financial decisions to my OCR software, and you won’t believe what happened next.”

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Re:Mistral OCR 4 by berkes on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:42PM (#48649466)

All AI companies are working on models with specialisms. Which are really good at one task.

Mistral is just a bit more forward about this. I guess because they don't need/want to "wow" an audience with generalist user-facing tools (chat) that seem to be experts in everything (but in reality quite often will be a lot of such specialist models chained together).

Here, what you want, is really just a few python scripts away. Voxtral to turn your spoken prompt into text, piped into mistral large 3 with extra system prompts that creates a prompt for ocr and paths to files. It could do this in a loop to actually find those files. which you throw at ocr3, is pased back to misteal large 3 to interpret and turn into decisions.

This is common. It's rather uncommon, really, to build something like this using only one model for everything.

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