🔥 Mistral OCR in n8n: Build a 19-Minute Invoice-Reader Bot

❗ Build a 5-Minute Invoice-Reader Bot with n8n + Mistral OCR (Step-by-Step)

In this tutorial, I show you how to plug the new Mistral OCR API into n8n and turn every PDF or image invoice into structured data, then drop it straight into Google Sheets. Follow along, grab the free workflow, and ship your own zero-code document-processing pipeline today.

What you’ll learn
-Connect n8n to Mistral OCR in under 60 seconds
-Parse invoices, receipts, contracts—any document format
-Map extracted fields to Google Sheets, Postgres, Airtable, etc.
-Trigger the workflow from Gmail, Drive, or a webhook
-Handle multi-page & multilingual PDFs with confidence

🔴 Live Build Timestamps
00:00 Intro – why Mistral OCR is a game-changer
00:48 Release date & benchmark showdown
01:31 Creating the n8n workflow project
02:00 Connecting the Gmail trigger
03:06 Walking through a sample invoice email
03:40 Mistral OCR API 3-step flow explained
04:00 Uploading the invoice via HTTP Request
05:33 Getting a signed download URL
06:55 Calling the Mistral OCR model
08:28 Building the Information Extractor with OpenAI
11:06 Writing cleaned data to Google Sheets
13:54 Creating an AI Agent to triage the inbox
15:30 Passing Gmail message IDs between workflows
17:00 Testing the agent-triggered extraction
18:17 Enabling smart email filtering
18:50 Wrap-up, use cases & next steps

🛠️ Resources & Downloads
🔗 FREE n8n workflow template: https://flowbyte.ai/wp-content/upload...
🔗 Mistral OCR API docs: https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/...
🔗 Mistral OCR Blog Post: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr
🔗 n8n HTTP node guide: https://docs.n8n.io/nodes/n8n-nodes-b...

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