To be fair: Reading the blog post, the main objective seems to have been to enable information extraction with high confidence for the academic sector (e.g. unlocking all these paper pdfs), and not necessarily to be another receipt scanner.
It hilarious that the academic sector
1. publishes as PDF
2. spends all this energy on how to extract that info back from PDF
3. publishes that research as PDF as well.
Receipt scanning is a multiple orders of magnitude more valuable business. Mistral at this point is looking for a commercial niche (like how Claude is aiming at software development)
