Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
Unstructured data is information that does not follow a fixed format, like emails, chats, PDFs, images, or audio files. It is messy but rich with insights, and AI systems are designed to make sense of it by extracting meaning, context, and intent.
IDC estimates over 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured, including PDFs, images, and audio.
Unstructured.io is an open-source library for parsing unstructured documents into structured chunks.
Databricks Unity Catalog and Snowflake Cortex now support unstructured-data workloads alongside tabular data.