diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 695a756..78c084f 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
 
 
 
+### Features
+
+- add Mistral OCR engine with package export, tests, and documentation (ocr)
+  - introduces a new `@push.rocks/smartai/ocr` subpath export with `createMistralOcrEngine()` for image OCR via Mistral's Document AI endpoint
+  - adds OCR request/response types, configurable transport and options, and normalized page/confidence results
+  - includes mocked transport tests for OCR requests and input validation
+  - updates package metadata and README content to document the new OCR module
+
 ## 2026-05-14 - 4.0.2
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f4f4023..294b840 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "@push.rocks/smartai",
   "version": "4.0.2",
   "private": false,
-  "description": "Provider registry and capability utilities for ai-sdk (Vercel AI SDK). Core export returns LanguageModel; subpath exports provide vision, audio, image, document and research capabilities.",
+  "description": "Provider registry and capability utilities for ai-sdk (Vercel AI SDK). Core export returns LanguageModel; subpath exports provide vision, audio, image, document, OCR and research capabilities.",
   "main": "dist_ts/index.js",
   "typings": "dist_ts/index.d.ts",
   "type": "module",
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
       "import": "./dist_ts_document/index.js",
       "types": "./dist_ts_document/index.d.ts"
     },
+    "./ocr": {
+      "import": "./dist_ts_ocr/index.js",
+      "types": "./dist_ts_ocr/index.d.ts"
+    },
     "./research": {
       "import": "./dist_ts_research/index.js",
       "types": "./dist_ts_research/index.d.ts"
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@
     "ts_audio/**/*",
     "ts_image/**/*",
     "ts_document/**/*",
+    "ts_ocr/**/*",
     "ts_research/**/*",
     "ts_openai_chatgpt_auth/**/*",
     "dist_*/**/*",
diff --git a/readme.hints.md b/readme.hints.md
index 5d2d377..e8b4174 100644
--- a/readme.hints.md
+++ b/readme.hints.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The package is a **provider registry** built on the Vercel AI SDK (`ai` v6). The
 - `@push.rocks/smartai/audio` — `textToSpeech()` using OpenAI SDK directly
 - `@push.rocks/smartai/image` — `generateImage()`, `editImage()` using OpenAI SDK directly
 - `@push.rocks/smartai/document` — `analyzeDocuments()` using SmartPdf + `generateText`
+- `@push.rocks/smartai/ocr` — `createMistralOcrEngine()` using Mistral Document AI OCR endpoint
 - `@push.rocks/smartai/research` — `research()` using `@anthropic-ai/sdk` web_search tool
 
 ## Dependencies
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ The package is a **provider registry** built on the Vercel AI SDK (`ai` v6). The
 ## Build
 
 - `pnpm build` → `tsbuild tsfolders --allowimplicitany`
-- Compiles: ts/, ts_vision/, ts_audio/, ts_image/, ts_document/, ts_research/
+- Compiles: ts/, ts_vision/, ts_audio/, ts_image/, ts_document/, ts_ocr/, ts_research/
 
 ## Important Notes
 
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 0418961..70a89eb 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -479,6 +479,38 @@ console.log(analysis);
 await stopSmartpdf();
 ```
 
+### 🔎 OCR — `@push.rocks/smartai/ocr`
+
+Extract text from images using Mistral Document AI OCR. This uses the documented `https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr` endpoint with `mistral-ocr-latest` and returns normalized text plus page-level confidence when requested.
+
+```typescript
+import { createMistralOcrEngine } from '@push.rocks/smartai/ocr';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+
+const ocr = createMistralOcrEngine({
+  apiKey: process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY,
+  confidenceScoresGranularity: 'page',
+});
+
+const result = await ocr.recognizeImage({
+  dataBase64: fs.readFileSync('screenshot.png').toString('base64'),
+  mimeType: 'image/png',
+});
+
+console.log(result.text);
+console.log(result.confidence);
+```
+
+**`createMistralOcrEngine(options)`** accepts:
+
+- `apiKey` — Mistral API key, required unless a custom `transport` is supplied
+- `model` — defaults to `mistral-ocr-latest`
+- `endpointUrl` — defaults to `https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr`
+- `confidenceScoresGranularity` — `'page'` | `'word'`
+- `tableFormat` — `'markdown'` | `'html'`
+- `extractHeader` / `extractFooter` — optional document OCR flags
+- `transport` — injectable transport for tests or custom HTTP clients
+
 ### 🔬 Research — `@push.rocks/smartai/research`
 
 Perform web-search-powered research using Anthropic's `web_search_20250305` tool.
@@ -514,6 +546,7 @@ tstest test/test.image.ts --verbose      # Image generation
 tstest test/test.research.ts --verbose   # Web research
 tstest test/test.audio.ts --verbose      # Text-to-speech
 tstest test/test.document.ts --verbose   # Document analysis (needs Chromium)
+tstest test/test.ocr.ts --verbose        # Mistral OCR transport (mocked)
 ```
 
 Most tests skip gracefully when API keys are not set. The Ollama tests are fully mocked and require no external services.
@@ -533,6 +566,7 @@ Most tests skip gracefully when API keys are not set. The Ollama tests are fully
 ├── ts_audio/                    # @push.rocks/smartai/audio
 ├── ts_image/                    # @push.rocks/smartai/image
 ├── ts_document/                 # @push.rocks/smartai/document
+├── ts_ocr/                      # @push.rocks/smartai/ocr
 └── ts_research/                 # @push.rocks/smartai/research
 ```
 
diff --git a/test/test.ocr.ts b/test/test.ocr.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a65dfc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test.ocr.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import { tap, expect } from '@git.zone/tstest/tapbundle';
+import { createMistralOcrEngine, type ISmartAiMistralOcrTransport } from '../ts_ocr/index.js';
+
+tap.test('createMistralOcrEngine should call Mistral OCR with image data URLs', async () => {
+  const calls: unknown[] = [];
+  const mockTransport: ISmartAiMistralOcrTransport = {
+    process: async (request) => {
+      calls.push(request);
+      return {
+        pages: [
+          {
+            index: 0,
+            markdown: 'hello terminal',
+            confidence_scores: {
+              average_page_confidence_score: 0.91,
+              minimum_page_confidence_score: 0.8,
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+        model: 'mistral-ocr-latest',
+        usage_info: {
+          pages_processed: 1,
+          doc_size_bytes: 12,
+        },
+      };
+    },
+  };
+
+  const ocrEngine = createMistralOcrEngine({
+    transport: mockTransport,
+    confidenceScoresGranularity: 'page',
+  });
+
+  const result = await ocrEngine.recognizeImage({
+    dataBase64: 'iVBORw0KGgo=',
+    mimeType: 'image/png',
+  });
+
+  expect(calls.length).toEqual(1);
+  expect((calls[0] as any).model).toEqual('mistral-ocr-latest');
+  expect((calls[0] as any).document.type).toEqual('image_url');
+  expect((calls[0] as any).document.image_url).toEqual('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=');
+  expect((calls[0] as any).confidence_scores_granularity).toEqual('page');
+  expect(result.text).toEqual('hello terminal');
+  expect(result.confidence).toEqual(0.91);
+  expect(result.pages).toEqual([
+    {
+      index: 0,
+      text: 'hello terminal',
+      confidence: 0.91,
+    },
+  ]);
+});
+
+tap.test('createMistralOcrEngine should validate image input', async () => {
+  const ocrEngine = createMistralOcrEngine({
+    transport: {
+      process: async () => {
+        throw new Error('should not call OCR');
+      },
+    },
+  });
+
+  let error: Error | undefined;
+  try {
+    await ocrEngine.recognizeImage({
+      dataBase64: '',
+      mimeType: 'image/png',
+    });
+  } catch (caughtError) {
+    error = caughtError instanceof Error ? caughtError : new Error(String(caughtError));
+  }
+
+  expect(error?.message).toEqual('Mistral OCR image input requires dataBase64.');
+});
+
+export default tap.start();
diff --git a/ts_ocr/index.ts b/ts_ocr/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f851c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ts_ocr/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+export type TSmartAiOcrImageMimeType =
+  | 'image/png'
+  | 'image/jpeg'
+  | 'image/webp'
+  | 'image/gif'
+  | string;
+
+export type TSmartAiMistralOcrTableFormat = 'markdown' | 'html';
+
+export type TSmartAiMistralOcrConfidenceScoresGranularity = 'page' | 'word';
+
+export interface ISmartAiOcrImageInput {
+  dataBase64: string;
+  mimeType: TSmartAiOcrImageMimeType;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiOcrPageResult {
+  index: number;
+  text: string;
+  confidence?: number;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiOcrResult<TRaw = unknown> {
+  text: string;
+  confidence?: number;
+  pages: ISmartAiOcrPageResult[];
+  raw: TRaw;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiOcrEngine {
+  recognizeImage: (
+    input: ISmartAiOcrImageInput,
+    options?: ISmartAiMistralOcrRecognizeOptions
+  ) => Promise<ISmartAiOcrResult<IMistralOcrResponse>>;
+}
+
+export interface IMistralOcrPageConfidenceScores {
+  average_page_confidence_score?: number;
+  averagePageConfidenceScore?: number;
+  minimum_page_confidence_score?: number;
+  minimumPageConfidenceScore?: number;
+}
+
+export interface IMistralOcrPageResponse {
+  index: number;
+  markdown: string;
+  confidence_scores?: IMistralOcrPageConfidenceScores | null;
+  confidenceScores?: IMistralOcrPageConfidenceScores | null;
+}
+
+export interface IMistralOcrResponse {
+  pages: IMistralOcrPageResponse[];
+  model: string;
+  document_annotation?: unknown;
+  documentAnnotation?: unknown;
+  usage_info?: unknown;
+  usageInfo?: unknown;
+}
+
+export interface IMistralOcrRequest {
+  model: string;
+  document: {
+    type: 'image_url';
+    image_url: string;
+  };
+  include_image_base64?: boolean;
+  table_format?: TSmartAiMistralOcrTableFormat;
+  extract_header?: boolean;
+  extract_footer?: boolean;
+  confidence_scores_granularity?: TSmartAiMistralOcrConfidenceScoresGranularity;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiMistralOcrTransport {
+  process: (request: IMistralOcrRequest) => Promise<IMistralOcrResponse>;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiMistralOcrOptions {
+  apiKey?: string;
+  model?: string;
+  endpointUrl?: string;
+  transport?: ISmartAiMistralOcrTransport;
+  includeImageBase64?: boolean;
+  tableFormat?: TSmartAiMistralOcrTableFormat;
+  extractHeader?: boolean;
+  extractFooter?: boolean;
+  confidenceScoresGranularity?: TSmartAiMistralOcrConfidenceScoresGranularity;
+}
+
+export interface ISmartAiMistralOcrRecognizeOptions {
+  includeImageBase64?: boolean;
+  tableFormat?: TSmartAiMistralOcrTableFormat;
+  extractHeader?: boolean;
+  extractFooter?: boolean;
+  confidenceScoresGranularity?: TSmartAiMistralOcrConfidenceScoresGranularity;
+}
+
+const defaultMistralOcrModel = 'mistral-ocr-latest';
+const defaultMistralOcrEndpointUrl = 'https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr';
+
+const createMistralOcrHttpTransport = (options: {
+  apiKey?: string;
+  endpointUrl?: string;
+}): ISmartAiMistralOcrTransport => {
+  return {
+    process: async (request) => {
+      if (!options.apiKey) {
+        throw new Error('Mistral OCR requires an apiKey when no custom transport is provided.');
+      }
+
+      const response = await fetch(options.endpointUrl ?? defaultMistralOcrEndpointUrl, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: {
+          Authorization: `Bearer ${options.apiKey}`,
+          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        },
+        body: JSON.stringify(request),
+      });
+
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        const errorBody = await response.text();
+        throw new Error(`Mistral OCR request failed with status ${response.status}: ${errorBody}`);
+      }
+
+      return (await response.json()) as IMistralOcrResponse;
+    },
+  };
+};
+
+const getPageConfidence = (page: IMistralOcrPageResponse): number | undefined => {
+  const confidenceScores = page.confidence_scores ?? page.confidenceScores;
+  return (
+    confidenceScores?.average_page_confidence_score ??
+    confidenceScores?.averagePageConfidenceScore
+  );
+};
+
+export const createMistralOcrEngine = (
+  options: ISmartAiMistralOcrOptions = {}
+): ISmartAiOcrEngine => {
+  const transport =
+    options.transport ??
+    createMistralOcrHttpTransport({
+      apiKey: options.apiKey,
+      endpointUrl: options.endpointUrl,
+    });
+  const model = options.model ?? defaultMistralOcrModel;
+
+  return {
+    recognizeImage: async (input, recognizeOptions = {}) => {
+      if (!input.dataBase64) {
+        throw new Error('Mistral OCR image input requires dataBase64.');
+      }
+      if (!input.mimeType) {
+        throw new Error('Mistral OCR image input requires mimeType.');
+      }
+
+      const response = await transport.process({
+        model,
+        document: {
+          type: 'image_url',
+          image_url: `data:${input.mimeType};base64,${input.dataBase64}`,
+        },
+        include_image_base64:
+          recognizeOptions.includeImageBase64 ?? options.includeImageBase64 ?? false,
+        table_format: recognizeOptions.tableFormat ?? options.tableFormat,
+        extract_header: recognizeOptions.extractHeader ?? options.extractHeader,
+        extract_footer: recognizeOptions.extractFooter ?? options.extractFooter,
+        confidence_scores_granularity:
+          recognizeOptions.confidenceScoresGranularity ?? options.confidenceScoresGranularity,
+      });
+
+      const pages = response.pages.map((page) => ({
+        index: page.index,
+        text: page.markdown,
+        confidence: getPageConfidence(page),
+      }));
+      const pageConfidences = pages
+        .map((page) => page.confidence)
+        .filter((confidence): confidence is number => typeof confidence === 'number');
+      const confidence = pageConfidences.length
+        ? pageConfidences.reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0) / pageConfidences.length
+        : undefined;
+
+      return {
+        text: pages.map((page) => page.text).join('\n\n').trim(),
+        confidence,
+        pages,
+        raw: response,
+      };
+    },
+  };
+};