Unstructured
Turns documents and unstructured files into AI-ready data
About Unstructured
Unstructured offers an open-source library and a commercial platform that ingest, partition and transform documents such as PDFs, slides, emails and images into structured formats for LLM and RAG applications. It supports connectors for common sources and destinations including vector databases.
Common use cases
- RAG data preparation
- Document ingestion for LLMs
- Knowledge base building
- Fine-tuning data preparation
Products and services
Unstructured open-source library
Python tools for parsing and chunking documents
Unstructured Platform
Managed pipelines for ingestion, transformation and delivery of unstructured data
Unstructured API
API for converting files into structured JSON
Key features
- Document partitioning
- Chunking and enrichment
- Source and destination connectors
- Table and layout extraction
- Metadata extraction
- Managed workflows
Integrations
- Amazon S3
- Google Drive
- SharePoint
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Pinecone
- Weaviate
- MongoDB
Unstructured alternatives
- L(LlamaIndex (LlamaParse)
- ReductoDocument parsing and extraction APIs for AI applications
- DODocling
- ADAzure Document Intelligence
FAQs
Is there an open-source option?
Yes, the core library is open source and a hosted platform adds managed pipelines.
What file types are handled?
Common business documents including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, email and images.
Where does the output go?
Connectors deliver processed data to destinations such as vector databases and object storage.

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