I try to build a finance analyzer workflow (for myself & practice). I already have trouble finding the right node to upload a pdf and extract it’s values. Here in the forum I read different ways to do it: Option A) PDF community node → what is a community node? And how reliable are they? Where do I find community nodes? Option 2: Use Mistral OCR. Option 3) Claude and giving it a tool. What is you opinion on this comparing these 3 ways? Is there another way? Thank you in advance, Best Jennifer
In my opinion, for any kind of document which has complex data structures (structured or non-structured), Mistral OCR has had the best results. Goolge Document AI is also very good but might require some custom training / setup.
Have a look at the below result from a previous question using Mistral’s Vision APIs to read data from a scanned invoice. This will also work on clean digital pdfs