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LlamaIndex Framework
Use Cases

Structured Data Extraction

LLMs are capable of ingesting large amounts of unstructured data and returning it in structured formats, and LlamaIndex is set up to make this easy.

Using LlamaIndex, you can get an LLM to read natural language and identify semantically important details such as names, dates, addresses, and figures, and return them in a consistent structured format regardless of the source format.

This can be especially useful when you have unstructured source material like chat logs and conversation transcripts.

Once you have structured data you can send them to a database, or you can parse structured outputs in code to automate workflows.

Our Learn section has a full tutorial on structured data extraction. We recommend starting out there.

There is also an example notebook demonstrating some of the techniques from the tutorial.

For a more comprehensive overview of structured data extraction with LlamaIndex, including lower-level modules, check out the following guides:

We also have multi-modal structured data extraction. Check it out.

Some additional examples highlighting use cases:

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