🔬 Turn any PDF into a clean Google Doc with Mistral OCR
⚡ 2,111 views · 🔬 Document Extraction & Analysis
Description
Upload a PDF and instantly get a neatly formatted Google Doc with all the readable text—no manual copy-paste, no messy line breaks.
What this workflow does
- Accepts PDF uploads via a public form
- Sends the file to Mistral Cloud for high-accuracy OCR
- Detects and merges page images with their extracted text
- Cleans headers, footers, broken lines, and noise
- Creates a new Google Doc in your chosen Drive folder
- Writes the polished markdown text into the document
What you need
- Mistral Cloud API key with OCR access
- Google Docs & Drive credentials connected in n8n
- Drive folder ID for new documents
- A PDF file to process (up to 100 MB)
Setup
- Import the workflow into n8n and activate credentials.
- In Trigger • Form Submission, copy the webhook URL and share it or embed it.
- In Create • Google Doc, replace the default folder ID with yours.
- Fill out Mistral API key under Mistral Cloud API credentials.
- Save and activate the workflow.
- Visit the form, upload a PDF, name your future doc, and submit.
- Open Drive to view your newly generated, clean Google Doc.
Example use cases
- Convert annual reports into editable text for analysis.
- Extract readable content from scan-only invoices for bookkeeping.
- Turn magazine PDFs into draft blog posts.
- Digitize lecture handouts for quick search and annotation.
- Convert image-heavy landing pages / advertorials into editable text for AI to analyze structure and content.
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Google Docs, Basic LLM Chain, n8n Form Trigger, OpenRouter Chat Model
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File