In this web content, the author discusses the complexities of working with textual data and introduces the unstructured Python library as a useful tool for handling unstructured data. The author explains how to install the library, split a document into smaller parts, and access different elements of the document. They also demonstrate how to convert the document elements into dictionaries and pandas dataframes. The author highlights a neat feature of the library that tracks metadata about the extracted elements and provides an example of preparing the text for transformer models. They acknowledge the limitations of the library and mention alternatives for reading docx files. Overall, the author emphasizes their motivation in building a personal AI assistant and expresses their intention to share more about their progress in future posts.
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