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EPub

EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the โ€œ.epubโ€ file extension. The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers.

This covers how to load .epub documents into the Document format that we can use downstream. Youโ€™ll need to install the pandoc package for this loader to work.

#!pip install pandoc
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredEPubLoader
loader = UnstructuredEPubLoader("winter-sports.epub")
data = loader.load()

Retain Elementsโ€‹

Under the hood, Unstructured creates different โ€œelementsโ€ for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".

loader = UnstructuredEPubLoader("winter-sports.epub", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]
Document(page_content='The Project Gutenberg eBook of Winter Sports in\nSwitzerland, by E. F. Benson', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'winter-sports.epub', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'Title'}, lookup_index=0)