Best Unstructured Alternative for Simple PDF Parsing

# Install (pulls in many dependencies)
pip install unstructured[all-docs]

# Parse a PDF
from unstructured.partition.pdf import partition_pdf

elements = partition_pdf("document.pdf")

# Elements are typed objects, not Markdown
for element in elements:
    print(type(element).__name__, element.text)

# Output looks like:
# Title Introduction
# NarrativeText This report covers Q4 performance...
# Table Revenue | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4
# ListItem Expanded to 12 markets

from unstructured_client import UnstructuredClient
from unstructured_client.models import shared, operations

client = UnstructuredClient(api_key_auth="YOUR_KEY")

with open("document.pdf", "rb") as f:
    res = client.general.partition(
        request=operations.PartitionRequest(
            partition_parameters=shared.PartitionParameters(
                files=shared.Files(
                    content=f.read(),
                    file_name="document.pdf",
                ),
                strategy="auto",
            ),
        ),
    )

# Still returns elements, not Markdown
for element in res.elements:
    print(element["type"], element["text"])

curl -X POST https://api.ragparser.com/v1/parse \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer rp_live_your_api_key" \
  -F "[email protected]"

const form = new FormData();
form.append("file", fileBuffer, "document.pdf");

const res = await fetch("https://api.ragparser.com/v1/parse", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer rp_live_your_api_key" },
  body: form,
});

const { markdown, text, pages, metadata } = await res.json();
// markdown is ready to use, no post-processing needed

import requests

with open("document.pdf", "rb") as f:
    res = requests.post(
        "https://api.ragparser.com/v1/parse",
        headers={"Authorization": "Bearer rp_live_your_api_key"},
        files={"file": f},
    )

data = res.json()
print(data["markdown"])  # Clean Markdown, ready for your pipeline

body := &bytes.Buffer{}
writer := multipart.NewWriter(body)
part, _ := writer.CreateFormFile("file", "document.pdf")
io.Copy(part, file)
writer.Close()

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
    "https://api.ragparser.com/v1/parse", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer rp_live_your_api_key")
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType())

resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)