Past Webinar
How To Parse PDFs For Beginners

Learn how Unstructured tackles messy, real-world PDFs with minimal setup—turning even the most complex documents into clean, structured data.

May 13, 2025

Speakers

Maria Khalusova
Maria Khalusova
Unstructured
Tarun Narayanan
Tarun Narayanan
DevRel Engineer, Unstructured

Recorded

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
1 hour on Zoom Events

Overview

Parsing PDFs is harder than it looks. Complex layouts, embedded images, and inconsistent formatting make it tough to reliably extract structured data. In this recording, you'll learn how Unstructured handles real-world PDFs—from scanned documents to complex tables and multilingual files—with minimal setup.

Whether you're working with compliance reports, legal documents, or research papers, you'll see how Unstructured makes PDF parsing simple, reliable, and ready for production use.

Technical Overview

Watch this recording to learn:

  • Why parsing PDFs is uniquely challenging
  • How Unstructured handles parsing for real-world, messy documents
  • How to easily parse documents with Unstructured’s Interactive Workflow
  • How different parsing strategies work: High-Resolution, VLM, Quick, and Auto modes

BTS

Brian Godsey, Datastax, brian.godsey@datastax.com 
Sara Hardy, Unstructured, sara.hardy@unstructured.io 
Avie Magner, DMP, avie@digitalmarketingpartners.biz 
Marc Lapides, DMP, marc@digitalmarketingpartners.biz