Unstructured
ETL for unstructured data — PDFs, images, HTML to LLM-ready
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Data & ETLFree (open-source) + API
About Unstructured
Unstructured is an ETL tool for converting unstructured documents (PDFs, images, HTML, Word) into clean, structured data ready for LLM pipelines. It's the standard for document preprocessing in RAG applications.
Features
✦PDF parsing
✦Image extraction
✦HTML processing
✦Chunking
✦Multi-format
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Best document parsing quality
- +Supports every format
- +RAG-optimized output
- +Active development
- +API + local options
Cons
- −Heavy dependencies
- −Slow for large document sets
- −API pricing per page
- −Complex configuration
Platforms
LinuxmacOSDocker
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