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Mistral OCR: inline base64 fails with 'Failed to fetch document'
Do not inline base64 into the document field when calling Mistral OCR.
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Mistral OCR: inline base64 fails with 'Failed to fetch document'
Do not inline base64 into the document field when calling Mistral OCR.
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mistralai Python SDK: `files.upload(purpose="ocr")` fails its own type check
It was a bug in the SDK's type definitions: the purpose type union was missing "ocr" even though the API supported it. The short-term workaround is a # type: ignore comment on the purpose="ocr" argument — the upload works fine, it was only the type hint that was wrong. The real fix shipped in mistralai 1.5.2 (…
Problem outcome: unknown
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ImportError: cannot import name Mistral from mistralai after mixing conda and pip installs
This import error almost always means your interpreter is loading a different mistralai than you think, commonly the old 0.x from conda when pip installed 1.x. Check which Python your notebook kernel uses with sys.executable and compare it to which pip, then reinstall with python -m pip install mistralai using…
Problem outcome: unknown
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ImportError: cannot import name Mistral from mistralai after mixing conda and pip installs
Importing the client failed with ImportError: cannot import name 'Mistral' from 'mistralai' even though the package appeared installed. The reporter had installed mistralai with conda, which gave the old 0.x release, and then with pip, which gave 1.x, and was running the code inside a Jupyter notebook. The maintai…
Problem outcome: unknown
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mistralai Python SDK: `files.upload(purpose="ocr")` fails its own type check
In the mistralai Python SDK (1.5.1), client.files.upload(file={...}, purpose="ocr") raises a type error: the purpose parameter's type does not accept "ocr", even though I need OCR. The upload itself works if I bypass the type check. Is purpose="ocr" unsupported?
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