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Mistral and MinerU race to turn messy PDFs into AI-ready text
Mistral released a new document-reading OCR service, while open-source project MinerU surged on GitHub for similar self-hosted PDF conversion. Both aim to extract clean, structured text from complex documents like scanned contracts and scientific papers. Better document reading is critical for AI reliability, as errors upstream cause invisible garbage-in-garbage-out failures.
Meridian48 take
The race highlights that AI's biggest bottlenecks are often the dullest plumbing—document parsing—where closed services and open tools compete on accuracy versus control.
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