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Quick post about using the unstructured Python library for working with documents. (e.g. ETL processes)

• https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured
• https://docs.unstructured.io/open-source/introduction/overview

When using this library, you’ll need to install/import the library at some point.

• pip install unstructured[all-docs]
• pip install unstructured[docx]

If you are only working with Word (docx) files, you will want to only install the unstructured lib using the second command above.

Why only install what you need?

• unstructured[docx]: 56 packages installed
• unstructured[all-docs]: 129 packages installed
• Difference: 73 additional packages (130% more)

You’ll import the unstructured lib into your Python script with commands like the following.

• from unstructured.partition.docx import partition_docx
• from unstructured.partition.auto import partition

Enjoy!