Unstructured

The unstructured package from Unstructured.IO extracts clean text from raw source documents like PDFs and Word documents. This page covers how to use the unstructured ecosystem within LangChain.

Installation and Setup

If you are using a loader that runs locally, use the following steps to get unstructured and its dependencies running locally.

• Install the Python SDK with pip install unstructured.
  • You can install document specific dependencies with extras, i.e. pip install "unstructured[docx]".
  • To install the dependencies for all document types, use pip install "unstructured[all-docs]".
• Install the following system dependencies if they are not already available on your system. Depending on what document types you're parsing, you may not need all of these.
  • libmagic-dev (filetype detection)
  • poppler-utils (images and PDFs)
  • tesseract-ocr(images and PDFs)
  • libreoffice (MS Office docs)
  • pandoc (EPUBs)

If you want to get up and running with less set up, you can simply run pip install unstructured and use UnstructuredAPIFileLoader or UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader. That will process your document using the hosted Unstructured API.

The Unstructured API requires API keys to make requests. You can request an API key here and start using it today! Checkout the README here here to get started making API calls. We'd love to hear your feedback, let us know how it goes in our community slack. And stay tuned for improvements to both quality and performance! Check out the instructions here if you'd like to self-host the Unstructured API or run it locally.

Data Loaders

The primary usage of the Unstructured is in data loaders.

UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader

UnstructuredAPIFileLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredAPIFileLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredAPIFileLoader

UnstructuredCHMLoader

CHM means Microsoft Compiled HTML Help.

See a usage example in the API documentation.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredCHMLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredCHMLoader

UnstructuredCSVLoader

A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values. Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredCSVLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredCSVLoader

UnstructuredEmailLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredEmailLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredEmailLoader

UnstructuredEPubLoader

EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the “.epub” file extension. The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredEPubLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredEPubLoader

UnstructuredExcelLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredExcelLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredExcelLoader

UnstructuredFileIOLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileIOLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredFileIOLoader

UnstructuredFileLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredFileLoader

UnstructuredHTMLLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredHTMLLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredHTMLLoader

UnstructuredImageLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredImageLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredImageLoader

UnstructuredMarkdownLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredMarkdownLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredMarkdownLoader

UnstructuredODTLoader

The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. It was developed with the aim of providing an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredODTLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredODTLoader

UnstructuredOrgModeLoader

An Org Mode document is a document editing, formatting, and organizing mode, designed for notes, planning, and authoring within the free software text editor Emacs.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredOrgModeLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredOrgModeLoader

UnstructuredPDFLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredPDFLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredPDFLoader

UnstructuredPowerPointLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredPowerPointLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredPowerPointLoader

UnstructuredRSTLoader

A reStructured Text (RST) file is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical documentation.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredRSTLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredRSTLoader

UnstructuredRTFLoader

See a usage example in the API documentation.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredRTFLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredRTFLoader

UnstructuredTSVLoader

A tab-separated values (TSV) file is a simple, text-based file format for storing tabular data. Records are separated by newlines, and values within a record are separated by tab characters.

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredTSVLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredTSVLoader

UnstructuredURLLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredURLLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredURLLoader

UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader

UnstructuredXMLLoader

See a usage example.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredXMLLoader

API Reference:

• UnstructuredXMLLoader