Unstructured

ETL for unstructured data — PDFs, images, HTML to LLM-ready

⭐9,000
Data ToolsFree (open-source) + API
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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

Tags

#etl#documents#parsing#open-source

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