Cause (Documented platform behavior): Each file type declares importable package dependencies installed via extras; the auto partitioner checks them before loading.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Misleading approaches:
- Running pip install unstructured[pdf] without quotes in zsh fails with a glob error, as the message hints.
Other error fragments:
- (including quotes) to install the required dependencies
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/1bedf7be0bea9db5c5dc3a9a2dab83078b4db54d/unstructured/partition/auto.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): _load_partitioner raises ImportError with the extras hint.
Search phrasings: unstructured partition_pdf is not available dependencies not installed; pip install unstructured[pdf] error
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Auto-partitioning a PDF/DOCX/etc. fails with an ImportError naming the extra.
- Context
- Product: Unstructured (open-source library) Component: partition.auto partitioner loader Operation: partition(filename=...) for a file type whose extra is not installed Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Exception: ImportError Packages: unstructured see record Trigger: Installing plain `pip install unstructured` (text/HTML only) and then partitioning other formats.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- is not available because one or more dependencies are not installed. Use: pip install
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [unstructured] ImportError "partition_pdf() is not available because one or more dependencies are not installed. Use: pip install "unstructured[pdf]""
Recommended action: pip install "unstructured[<extra>]" (e.g. [pdf], [docx], or [all-docs]) — quotes needed in shells like zsh.
Option: Install the named extra [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: All file types
Steps:
1. pip install "unstructured[pdf]"
Expected: Partitioner loads
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- a21cfa02-2a72-4d8a-9381-6e7e9e4893fe
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: pip install "unstructured[<extra>]" (e.g. [pdf], [docx], or [all-docs]) — quotes needed in shells like zsh. Option: Install the named extra [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: All file types Steps: 1. pip install "unstructured[pdf]" Expected: Partitioner loads
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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