unstructured VS llm

Be careful with unstructured:

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/d11c70c...

from: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/687

I’ve been looking at this

https://freeling-user-manual.readthedocs.io/en/v4.2/modules/...

at the freeling library in general, also spaCy and NLTK. The chunking algorithms being used in the likes of LangChain are remarkably bad surprisingly.

There is also

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured

But I don’t like it, can’t explain why yet.

My intuition is that 1st step is clean sentences and paragraphs and titles/labels/headers. Then probably an LLM can handle outlining and table of contents generation using a stripped down list of objects in the text.

BRIO/BERT summarization could also have a role of some type.

Those are my ideas so far.

Unstructured is the best one I’ve used so far: https://www.unstructured.io

https://www.unstructured.io/ can parse PDFs, then you can feed all of them to Claude, which has a 100k context window.

If the copy & pase method does not work: One approach is to use the functionality of Unstructured to parse the PDF. If need be, it can do OCR on the PDF too if you have Detectron2 installed. After conversion you would still have to save it as an excel file though.

I would check out https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured (what lang chain uses) or https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr (probably what unstructured copied to get their startup off the ground lol)

That's a great use case, you might be able to do this if you've got a copy and paste on the command line with

https://github.com/simonw/llm

In between. An alias like pdfwtf translating to "paste | llm command | copy"

I added support for this model to my LLM CLI tool via a new plugin: https://github.com/simonw/llm-command-r

So now you can do this:

    pipx install llm

If you're willing to use the CLI, Simon Willison's llm library[0] should do the trick.

[0] https://github.com/simonw/llm

I'm not thrilled about https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/localllm/blob/main/ll... calling their Python package "llm" and installing "llm" as a CLI command, when my similar https://llm.datasette.io/ project has that namespace reserved on PyPI already: https://pypi.org/project/llm/

I've been gleefully exploring the intersection of LLMs and CLI utilities for a few months now - they are such a great fit for each other! The unix philosophy of piping things together is a perfect fit for how LLMs work.

I've mostly been exploring this with my https://llm.datasette.io/ CLI tool, but I have a few other one-off tools as well: https://github.com/simonw/blip-caption and https://github.com/simonw/ospeak

I'm puzzled that more people aren't loudly exploring this space (LLM+CLI) - it's really fun.

Seems nice if you're using c# or java. It also supports python, but for that Simon's llm library is nice because he designed it as both a library and a command line tool: https://github.com/simonw/llm