# Bad Influence story: OpenRouter ranks Claude Opus 5.5 top on scanned-document OCR, Mistral OCR close behind

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 19:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/1265794a-59ec-409d-a4aa-6b678995dfde

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Latest update (11-09 19:00): OpenRouter tests 15 vision models and Mistral OCR on scanned documents

Overview: OpenRouter's blog reports that Claude Opus 5.5 was the most accurate of 15 vision models and Mistral OCR on its scanned-document test, getting 262 of 264 key values right at $16.42 per 1,000 pages. Mistral OCR got 258 of 264 at $2.02 per 1,000 pages, and Tesseract 5.5 got 46 of 88 on the same set.

The test used eight degraded pages that OpenRouter built from text it wrote, so every character could be checked. OpenRouter says readers should run their own scans through the models before choosing one.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-09 19:00 · OpenRouter Blog (from the company) · [OpenRouter tests 15 vision models and Mistral OCR on scanned documents](https://badinfluence.news/items/miz6jzc8wi4rcbqd71uxw6vhw)
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