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# Camel.loaders.mistral reader

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## MistralReader

```python theme={"system"}
class MistralReader:
```

Mistral Document Loader.

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### **init**

```python theme={"system"}
def __init__(
    self,
    api_key: Optional[str] = None,
    model: Optional[str] = 'mistral-ocr-latest'
):
```

Initialize the MistralReader.

**Parameters:**

* **api\_key** (Optional\[str]): The API key for the Mistral API. (default: :obj:`None`)
* **model** (Optional\[str]): The model to use for OCR. (default: :obj:`"mistral-ocr-latest"`)

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### \_encode\_file

```python theme={"system"}
def _encode_file(self, file_path: str):
```

Encode the pdf to base64.

**Parameters:**

* **file\_path** (str): Path to the input file.

**Returns:**

str: base64 version of the file.

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### extract\_text

```python theme={"system"}
def extract_text(
    self,
    file_path: str,
    is_image: bool = False,
    pages: Optional[List[int]] = None,
    include_image_base64: Optional[bool] = None
):
```

Converts the given file to Markdown format.

**Parameters:**

* **file\_path** (str): Path to the input file or a remote URL.
* **is\_image** (bool): Whether the file or URL is an image. If True, uses image\_url type instead of document\_url. (default: :obj:`False`)
* **pages** (Optional\[List\[int]]): Specific pages user wants to process in various formats: single number, range, or list of both. Starts from 0. (default: :obj:`None`)
* **include\_image\_base64** (Optional\[bool]): Whether to include image URLs in response. (default: :obj:`None`)

**Returns:**

OCRResponse: page wise extractions.