A small Microsoft utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files into Markdown that is easy to hand to a language model.
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RAG & vector DBsUnstructured-IO
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ETL for documents: it splits PDFs, emails, Word, HTML and images into typed elements (titles, paragraphs, tables) ready for chunking and embeddings.
Who it is for
For engineers building a document-preparation pipeline for LLMs.
How to start
- Install:
pip install "unstructured[all-docs]"(plain text only needspip install unstructured). - Install system dependencies:
libmagic-dev,poppler-utils,tesseract-ocr. - Or run the prebuilt container:
docker pull downloads.unstructured.io/unstructured-io/unstructured:latest.
Steps are taken from the README. Check the current version in the repository before running them.
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Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.
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