upspawn-ocr-cli 0.1.0b2

Modern, polished CLI to extract text from PDFs using the Mistral OCR API.

Mistral OCR CLI

Modern, polished CLI to extract text from PDFs using the Mistral OCR API.

Features

• Elegant TUI with progress bars and rich output
• Single file or batch processing
• Output in text, JSON, or Markdown
• Parallel batch processing with --jobs
• Config helper and .env support

Quickstart

1. Install

uv tool install mistral-ocr-cli  # via pipx-like tool install
# or
uv pip install mistral-ocr-cli   # into current environment

2. Configure API key

export MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_key_here
# or
echo "MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_key_here" >> .env

3. Extract text

ocr extract file.pdf -o out.txt
ocr extract file1.pdf file2.pdf --batch --output-dir outputs --jobs 4

Usage

ocr extract [OPTIONS] FILES...

Options:
  -o, --output PATH            Output file (single-file mode)
  -f, --format [text|json|markdown]
  -b, --batch                  Enable batch mode
  -O, --output-dir PATH        Directory for batch outputs
  -j, --jobs INTEGER RANGE     Parallel jobs for batch [default: 1]
  -v, --verbose                Verbose logs
  -q, --quiet                  Only errors
  --version                    Show version
  --help                       Show help

Programmatic use

from ocr.pdf2text import pdf_to_text

text = pdf_to_text("/path/file.pdf")

Development

uv pip install -e .[dev]
uv run pre-commit install
uv run pytest -q

Releasing is handled via standard tags and GitHub Releases.

License

MIT

Test coverage

# Terminal report
make coverage

# HTML report in htmlcov/
make coverhtml