langchain/docs/ecosystem/unstructured.md
Matt Robinson c51dec5101
feat: add Unstructured API loaders (#3906)
### Summary

Adds `UnstructuredAPIFileLoaders` and `UnstructuredAPIFIleIOLoaders`
that partition documents through the Unstructured API. Defaults to the
URL for hosted Unstructured API, but can switch to a self hosted or
locally running API using the `url` kwarg. Currently, the Unstructured
API is open and does not require an API, but it will soon. A note was
added about that to the Unstructured ecosystem page.

### Testing


```python
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader

filename = "fake-email.eml"

with open(filename, "rb") as f:
    loader = UnstructuredAPIFileIOLoader(file=f, file_filename=filename)
    docs = loader.load()

docs[0]
```

```python
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredAPIFileLoader

filename = "fake-email.eml"
loader = UnstructuredAPIFileLoader(file_path=filename, mode="elements")
docs = loader.load()

docs[0]
```
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# Unstructured
This page covers how to use the [`unstructured`](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured)
ecosystem within LangChain. The `unstructured` package from
[Unstructured.IO](https://www.unstructured.io/) extracts clean text from raw source documents like
PDFs and Word documents.
This page is broken into two parts: installation and setup, and then references to specific
`unstructured` wrappers.
## 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[local-inference]"`
- 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 are parsing PDFs using the `"hi_res"` strategy, run the following to install the `detectron2` model, which
`unstructured` uses for layout detection:
- `pip install "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git@e2ce8dc#egg=detectron2"`
- If `detectron2` is not installed, `unstructured` will fallback to processing PDFs
using the `"fast"` strategy, which uses `pdfminer` directly and doesn't require
`detectron2`.
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.
Note that currently (as of 1 May 2023) the Unstructured API is open, but it will soon require
an API. The [Unstructured documentation page](https://unstructured-io.github.io/) will have
instructions on how to generate an API key once they're available. 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.