Leveraging Enterprise Specific Data With LLMs: How Unstructured Unlocked 100k+ Pages of IRS Manuals

A project involved scraping over 100,000 pages of IRS manuals, primarily in PDF format, from the IRS website and using the Unstructured API to preprocess these documents into structured JSON data. This preprocessing allows the data to be organized in a way that benefits large language models (LLMs), facilitating experiments with various downstream libraries for different applications. The team used tools such as Pinecone for data storage, OpenAI for embeddings, and LangChain as a programming framework, demonstrating flexibility in choosing alternatives like Hugging Face or Llama Index. Once the data is structured and stored in a vector database, it can be queried to answer questions about IRS policies and procedures, enabling enterprises to leverage their internal data effectively with LLMs. The project emphasizes the growing capabilities of natural language processing and data connectivity offered by Unstructured, encouraging users to engage with the data through a hosted instance or by running a command-line interface application themselves.