mistral_parse

The Mistral Parse tool provides a powerful way to extract and process content from PDF documents using Mistral's OCR API. This tool leverages advanced optical character recognition to accurately extract text and structure from PDF files, making it easy to incorporate document data into your agent workflows.

With the Mistral Parse tool, you can:

• Extract text from PDFs: Accurately convert PDF content to text, markdown, or JSON formats

• Process PDFs from URLs: Directly extract content from PDFs hosted online by providing their URLs

• Maintain document structure: Preserve formatting, tables, and layout from the original PDFs

• Extract images: Optionally include embedded images from the PDFs

• Select specific pages: Process only the pages you need from multi-page documents

The Mistral Parse tool is particularly useful for scenarios where your agents need to work with PDF content, such as analyzing reports, extracting data from forms, or processing text from scanned documents. It simplifies the process of making PDF content available to your agents, allowing them to work with information stored in PDFs just as easily as with direct text input.

Usage Instructions

Extract text and structure from PDF documents using Mistral's OCR API. Configure processing options and get the content in your preferred format. For URLs, they must be publicly accessible and point to a valid PDF file. Note: Google Drive, Dropbox, and other cloud storage links are not supported; use a direct download URL from a web server instead.

Tools

mistral_parser

Parse PDF documents using Mistral OCR API

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
filePath	string	Yes	URL to a PDF document to be processed
fileUpload	object	No	File upload data from file-upload component
resultType	string	No	Type of parsed result (markdown, text, or json). Defaults to markdown.
includeImageBase64	boolean	No	Include base64-encoded images in the response
pages	array	No	Specific pages to process (array of page numbers, starting from 0)
imageLimit	number	No	Maximum number of images to extract from the PDF
imageMinSize	number	No	Minimum height and width of images to extract from the PDF
apiKey	string	Yes	Mistral API key (MISTRAL_API_KEY)

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
content	string	Extracted content
metadata	json	Processing metadata

Notes

• Category: tools

• Type: mistral_parse