What It Is
Unstructured.io handles PDF, HTML, DOCX, PPTX, XLS, and 20+ formats, extracting clean text and structure for LLM ingestion. The open-source library is free; their cloud API handles complex layouts better and supports more formats.
Strengths & Weaknesses
✓ Strengths
- Supports most file types
- Structure-aware extraction
- OSS and cloud
- Battle-tested
× Weaknesses
- OSS setup complexity
- Cloud pricing steep
- Variable quality
Best Use Cases
RAG pipelinesEnterprise doc processingData engineering
Alternatives
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