Unstructured File Loader

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Unstructured File Loader#

This notebook covers how to use Unstructured to load files of many types. Unstructured currently supports loading of text files, powerpoints, html, pdfs, images, and more.

# # Install package
!pip install "unstructured[local-inference]"
!pip install "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git@v0.6#egg=detectron2"
!pip install layoutparser[layoutmodels,tesseract]

# # Install other dependencies
# # https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/main/docs/source/installing.rst
# !brew install libmagic
# !brew install poppler
# !brew install tesseract
# # If parsing xml / html documents:
# !brew install libxml2
# !brew install libxslt

# import nltk
# nltk.download('punkt')

from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileLoader

loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt")

docs = loader.load()

docs[0].page_content[:400]

'Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.\n\nLast year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.\n\nTonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.\n\nWith a duty to one another to the American people to the Constit'

Retain Elements#

Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".

loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt", mode="elements")

docs = loader.load()

docs[:5]

[Document(page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Last year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='And with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0)]

PDF Example#

Processing PDF documents works exactly the same way. Unstructured detects the file type and extracts the same types of elements.

!wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/main/example-docs/layout-parser-paper.pdf -P "../../"

loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../layout-parser-paper.pdf", mode="elements")

docs = loader.load()

docs[:5]

[Document(page_content='LayoutParser : A Uniﬁed Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Zejiang Shen 1 ( (ea)\n ), Ruochen Zhang 2 , Melissa Dell 3 , Benjamin Charles Germain Lee 4 , Jacob Carlson 3 , and Weining Li 5', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Allen Institute for AI shannons@allenai.org', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Brown University ruochen zhang@brown.edu', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Harvard University { melissadell,jacob carlson } @fas.harvard.edu', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0)]