# Parse and Extract Data from Documents/Images with Mistral: n8n workflow

> Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Google Drive. 17 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/parse-and-extract-data-from-documents-images-with-mistral (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Parse and Extract Data from Documents/Images with Mistral

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Google Drive. 17 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

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**17 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**0** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 4 Service 12

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **When clicking ‘Test workflow’** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Import PDF** Google Drive *Service*
- 3 **Import Image** Google Drive *Service*
- 4 **Document URL1** Set *Logic*
- 5 **Image URL1** Set *Logic*
- 6 **Document URL** Set *Logic*
- 7 **Image URL** Set *Logic*
- 8 **Mistral Upload** Http Request *Service*
- 9 **Mistral Upload1** Http Request *Service*
- 10 **Document Understanding** Http Request *Service*
- 11 **Document Mis-Understanding?** Http Request *Service*
- 12 **Mistral DOC OCR1** Http Request *Service*
- 13 **Mistral IMAGE OCR1** Http Request *Service*
- 14 **Mistral Signed URL** Http Request *Service*
- 15 **Mistral Signed URL1** Http Request *Service*
- 16 **Mistral DOC OCR** Http Request *Service*
- 17 **Mistral IMAGE OCR** Http Request *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An event in a connected app
- **Steps:** 17
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Google Drive
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Google Drive account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 17 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 17 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fparse-and-extract-data-from-documents-images-with-mistral)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Google+Drive#library)

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