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.

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.