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# RAG - Unstructured - semi-structured
This template performs RAG on `semi-structured data`, such as a PDF with text and tables.
It uses the `unstructured` parser to extract the text and tables from the PDF and then uses the LLM to generate queries based on the user input.
See [this cookbook](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/cookbook/Semi_Structured_RAG.ipynb) as a reference.
## Environment Setup
Set the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable to access the OpenAI models.
This uses [Unstructured](https://unstructured-io.github.io/unstructured/) for PDF parsing, which requires some system-level package installations.
On Mac, you can install the necessary packages with the following:
```shell
brew install tesseract poppler
```
## Usage
To use this package, you should first have the LangChain CLI installed:
```shell
pip install -U langchain-cli
```
To create a new LangChain project and install this as the only package, you can do:
```shell
langchain app new my-app --package rag-semi-structured
```
If you want to add this to an existing project, you can just run:
```shell
langchain app add rag-semi-structured
```
And add the following code to your `server.py` file:
```python
from rag_semi_structured import chain as rag_semi_structured_chain
add_routes(app, rag_semi_structured_chain, path="/rag-semi-structured")
```
(Optional) Let's now configure LangSmith.
LangSmith will help us trace, monitor and debug LangChain applications.
You can sign up for LangSmith [here](https://smith.langchain.com/).
If you don't have access, you can skip this section
```shell
export LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2=true
export LANGCHAIN_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LANGCHAIN_PROJECT=<your-project> # if not specified, defaults to "default"
```
If you are inside this directory, then you can spin up a LangServe instance directly by:
```shell
langchain serve
```
This will start the FastAPI app with a server is running locally at
[http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000)
We can see all templates at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs](http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs)
We can access the playground at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/rag-semi-structured/playground](http://127.0.0.1:8000/rag-semi-structured/playground)
We can access the template from code with:
```python
from langserve.client import RemoteRunnable
runnable = RemoteRunnable("http://localhost:8000/rag-semi-structured")
```
For more details on how to connect to the template, refer to the Jupyter notebook `rag_semi_structured`.