unstructured-inference 0.2.1

A library for performing inference using trained models.

Open-Source Pre-Processing Tools for Unstructured Data

The unstructured-inference repo contains hosted model inference code for layout parsing models. These models are invoked via API as part of the partitioning bricks in the unstructured package.

Installation

Package

Run pip install unstructured-inference.

Detectron2

Detectron2 is required for most inference tasks but is not automatically installed with this package. For MacOS and Linux, build from source with:

pip install 'git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git@v0.4#egg=detectron2'

Other install options can be found in the Detectron2 installation guide.

Windows is not officially supported by Detectron2, but some users are able to install it anyway. See discussion here for tips on installing Detectron2 on Windows.

Repository

To install the repository for development, clone the repo and run make install to install dependencies. Run make help for a full list of install options.

Getting Started

To get started with the layout parsing model, use the following commands:

from unstructured_inference.inference.layout import DocumentLayout

layout = DocumentLayout.from_file("sample-docs/loremipsum.pdf")

print(layout.pages[0].elements)

Once the model has detected the layout and OCR'd the document, the text extracted from the first page of the sample document will be displayed. You can convert a given element to a dict by running the .to_dict() method.

To build the Docker container, run make docker-build. Note that Apple hardware with an M1 chip has trouble building Detectron2 on Docker and for best results you should build it on Linux. To run the API locally, use make start-app-local. You can stop the API with make stop-app-local. The API will run at http:/localhost:5000. You can then POST a PDF file to the API endpoint to see its layout with the command:

curl -X 'POST' 'http://localhost:5000/layout/pdf' -F 'file=@<your_pdf_file>' | jq -C . | less -R

You can also choose the types of elements you want to return from the output of PDF parsing by passing a list of types to the include_elems parameter. For example, if you only want to return Text elements and Title elements, you can curl:

curl -X 'POST' 'http://localhost:5000/layout/pdf' \
-F 'file=@<your_pdf_file>' \
-F include_elems=Text \
-F include_elems=Title \
 | jq -C | less -R

If you are using an Apple M1 chip, use make run-app-dev instead of make start-app-local to start the API with hot reloading. The API will run at http:/localhost:8000.

View the swagger documentation at http://localhost:5000/docs.

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