Unstructured
Document extractionA toolkit and API for turning PDFs, office files, and emails into clean, chunked text for AI.
Unstructured handles the unglamorous first mile of any RAG project: taking the formats real businesses run on — PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, email — and producing structured, model-ready elements.
It comes as an open-source library and as a hosted API and platform that adds connectors and scale. Either way, the job is the same: get from a folder of mixed files to clean chunks without writing a parser per format.
Where it's ideally used
The right tool when source content spans many file formats and you need one consistent ingestion path into a RAG pipeline.
Where it doesn't fit
More than you need when every document is the same simple, well-structured format that a single targeted parser handles.