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langchain-hexread

License: MIT

A LangChain document loader for HexRead. It converts PDFs and images to Markdown through the HexRead API and returns LangChain Documents. Nothing is processed locally.

API access requires a paid HexRead plan. The free trial is web only, so no API key can be issued for it. Keys are created and revoked in your HexRead dashboard.

Install

pip install langchain-hexread

Python 3.10+. Pulls in hexread and langchain-core.

Quick start

from langchain_hexread import HexReadLoader

docs = HexReadLoader("report.pdf").load()  # one Document per page

Set HEXREAD_API_KEY, or pass api_key= to the loader. Nothing is resolved until a load starts, so building a loader never fails for a missing key.

file_path is a path, raw bytes, or an open binary file, or a sequence of them. A sequence is converted with bounded concurrency and the Documents come back in input order:

docs = HexReadLoader(["a.pdf", "b.pdf", "scan.png"], max_workers=2).load()

Keep max_workers at or below the concurrency your plan allows, or the API answers 429.

Loader options

Option Default Effect
api_key environment, then CLI credential key for this loader
model auto parser to request; naming one requires a plan that allows it
lang unset OCR language hint, passed through to the parser
split "page" "page" for one Document per page, "file" for one per document
base_url https://api.hexread.com/v1 API base URL
client built per load an existing HexRead (sync) or AsyncHexRead (async) to convert with
extra_metadata {} extra keys merged into every Document's metadata
max_workers 2 files converted in parallel when file_path is a sequence

A loader builds and closes its own client unless you inject one, in which case it is left open for you to reuse and close. Handing load() an AsyncHexRead (or aload() a HexRead) raises TypeError with the fix in the message.

Methods

The four BaseLoader entry points all work:

Method Returns Notes
load() list[Document] everything at once
lazy_load() Iterator[Document] nothing is uploaded until the iterator is consumed
aload() list[Document] async, driven by AsyncHexRead
alazy_load() AsyncIterator[Document] the async twin of lazy_load

lazy_load() hands each page over as it is built, so a splitter or a vector store can start before the whole list exists:

for doc in HexReadLoader("report.pdf").lazy_load():
    index(doc)  # your splitter, embedder, or store

Document metadata

Key Value
source the path that was converted
page page index, 0-based (absent when split="file")
page_label page number as a string, 1-based (absent when split="file")
total_pages pages in the converted document
model parser that produced the Markdown
route_reason why the auto router picked that parser (absent when a model was requested)
parser always hexread

source and a zero-based page are the same shape LangChain's own PDF loaders produce, so existing chains and citation code keep working.

License

Licensed under the MIT License, © HexWorld Solutions GmbH.

Source, issues and the core client: github.com/HexWorldEU/hexread-python.

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