Workflow with Mistral OCR

[fabgru]

Hi, just a quick question regarding the workflow of this tool.

I expected OCR with Mistral configured to happen automatically if it ends up in the queue. However I need to process them manually. Did I setup anything wrong or is this the intended usecase ?
Can future versions change this behavious or have it configurable ? :)

Edit: Also my search does not appear to work. Using the seach bar on any page does not show results. Or does this only search documents processed by paperless-ai-next and not just all documents via paperless api key ?

Thanks !

[admonstrator]

Hey, could you please create a bug report using the red button inside the tool?
So I can try to figure out what's wrong :-)

[fabgru]

I can provide some information in a moment but just to know what the tool is capable of:

1. Can it force OCR with Mistral even though there is text avail. in the paperless document / pdf ? With my testing it does not seem so (Not having any text content in paperless itself seems like a different problem, I want to ignore any OCR Information when adding to paperless..)
2. Have it OCRd first and then processed by AI to get title, tags, .. ? -> Unsure because it only appereared in Queue after it was processed, in the Queue there is the option to "AI Analysis after OCR", but again OCR does not start automatically

Thanks for giving some answers :)

[admonstrator]

1. Yep, you can by manually adding the document to the OCR queue.
2. Yes, OCR first and then AI

Currently it's not a completely automated process since it's dangerous to send all files to OCR - expensive API calls. That's why there is the OCR queue. But you can process all entries in the OCR queue at once.

[kirashogun]

First of all, fantastic project, I've also donated as well :). Can we have an option to automatically do OCR and then AI at least? I got local model running beautifully but I have to hit the process all button all the time :(. The Papereless default OCR engine doesn't handle handwriting very well so it's basically unuseable for me. Zettelrobbe has been a life saver :)

[admonstrator]

I will add an option for that, yep!