langchain/docs/extras/integrations/providers/unstructured.mdx
Matt Robinson 8961c720b8
docs: update unstructured install instructions (#8596)
### Summary

Updates the `unstructured` install instructions. For
`unstructured>=0.9.0`, dependencies are broken out by document type and
the base `unstructured` package includes fewer dependencies. `pip
install "unstructured[local-inference]"` has been replace by `pip
install "unstructured[all-docs]"`, though the `local-inference` extra is
still supported for the time being.

### Reviewers

- @rlancemartin
- @eyurtsev
- @hwchase17
2023-08-01 14:17:49 -07:00

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# Unstructured
>The `unstructured` package from
[Unstructured.IO](https://www.unstructured.io/) extracts clean text from raw source documents like
PDFs and Word documents.
This page covers how to use the [`unstructured`](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/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 generate a free API key [here](https://www.unstructured.io/api-key) and start using it today!
Checkout the README [here](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-api) here to get started making API calls.
We'd love to hear your feedback, let us know how it goes in our [community slack](https://join.slack.com/t/unstructuredw-kbe4326/shared_invite/zt-1x7cgo0pg-PTptXWylzPQF9xZolzCnwQ).
And stay tuned for improvements to both quality and performance!
Check out the instructions
[here](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-api#dizzy-instructions-for-using-the-docker-image) if you'd like to self-host the Unstructured API or run it locally.
## Wrappers
### Data Loaders
The primary `unstructured` wrappers within `langchain` are data loaders. The following
shows how to use the most basic unstructured data loader. There are other file-specific
data loaders available in the `langchain.document_loaders` module.
```python
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileLoader
loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("state_of_the_union.txt")
loader.load()
```
If you instantiate the loader with `UnstructuredFileLoader(mode="elements")`, the loader
will track additional metadata like the page number and text type (i.e. title, narrative text)
when that information is available.