Turn any PDF into a clean Google Doc with Mistral OCR

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

1. Import the workflow into n8n and activate credentials. 2. In Trigger • Form Submission, copy the webhook URL and share it or embed it. 3. In Create • Google Doc, replace the default folder ID with yours. 4. Fill out Mistral API key under Mistral Cloud API credentials. 5. Save and activate the workflow. 6. Visit the form, upload a PDF, name your future doc, and submit. 7. Open Drive to view your newly generated, clean Google Doc.

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