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.