The Unstructured Data Problem
Your data warehouse handles rows and columns. But your most valuable data doesn't fit in a table.
Videos, images, PDFs, audio recordings, presentations — the fastest-growing data in every organization is invisible to traditional analytics and AI systems.
Whisper for audio, CLIP for images, Tesseract for OCR, a vector database, an orchestrator — each with its own deployment, scaling, and failure modes.
Getting from raw files to searchable, indexed, retrieval-ready data takes significant engineering effort when you're managing every component yourself.
From Raw Files to Production Retrieval
One pipeline handles every file type. No stitching tools together.
Ingest
Connect any object store or upload via API
S3, GCS, Azure Blob, or direct upload. Bucket triggers start processing automatically when files land.
Decompose
Extract features from every modality
50+ extractors: OCR, transcription, object detection, scene understanding, face recognition, embeddings.
Index
Store in a unified multimodal index
Every extracted feature gets embedded and indexed alongside metadata. One namespace, all modalities.
Retrieve
Search and filter across everything
Hybrid search, metadata filtering, cross-modal retrieval. Query with text, get back video frames.
Every Modality, Native
Dedicated extractors for every data type — not adapters or workarounds. Each modality gets first-class processing.
Video
MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM, MKV
- Keyframe extraction and scene detection
- Object and action recognition per frame
- Audio track transcription (ASR)
- Temporal embedding across segments
Images
JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, SVG, HEIC
- Visual embedding (CLIP, SigLIP)
- OCR and text-in-image extraction
- Object detection and classification
- Face detection and recognition
Documents
PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, Markdown
- Layout-aware document parsing
- Table and chart extraction
- Semantic chunking by section
- Embedded image extraction
Audio
MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, M4A
- Speech-to-text transcription
- Speaker diarization
- Audio classification
- Acoustic embedding generation
Mixpeek vs. Alternatives
Stop stitching together 5 tools. One platform, every modality, end-to-end.
| Feature | Mixpeek | DIY (Open Source) | Unstructured.io |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Types | Video, image, audio, documents, text — all native | One tool per modality, glued together | Documents and images only |
| Embedding Generation | Built-in (50+ extractors, GPU-accelerated) | BYO models, manage GPU infrastructure | Not included — output only |
| Vector Indexing | Included (hybrid search, metadata filtering) | BYO vector database | Not included |
| Retrieval Pipeline | Composable stages (filter, search, rerank, enrich) | Custom code required | Not included |
| Scaling | Auto-scaling Ray GPU clusters | Manual scaling per component | Managed for parsing only |
| Deployment | Managed cloud, dedicated, or BYO cloud (your VPC) | Self-managed everything | Managed SaaS or self-hosted |
One API for Everything
Connect your object storage, define extractors, and start querying. Files are processed automatically when they land.
Connect any source
S3, GCS, Azure Blob, or direct API upload. Bucket triggers automate the rest.
Pick your extractors
Choose from 50+ built-in extractors or bring your own models via Docker.
Query across everything
Hybrid search, metadata filtering, and cross-modal retrieval — all through composable retriever pipelines.
from mixpeek import Mixpeek
client = Mixpeek(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
# 1. Create a namespace (your data container)
namespace = client.namespaces.create(
name="enterprise-docs",
embedding_model="mixpeek-embed-v2"
)
# 2. Connect your object storage
bucket = client.buckets.create(
namespace_id=namespace.id,
source="s3://company-data/unstructured/",
credentials={"role_arn": "arn:aws:iam::role/mixpeek"}
)
# 3. Define a processing collection
collection = client.collections.create(
namespace_id=namespace.id,
bucket_id=bucket.id,
extractors=[
{"type": "text_embedding"},
{"type": "image_embedding"},
{"type": "video_keyframe"},
{"type": "audio_transcription"},
{"type": "ocr"},
{"type": "object_detection"}
]
)
# 4. Files are processed automatically when they land in the bucket.
# Query across all modalities with a single retriever:
results = client.retrievers.execute(
namespace_id=namespace.id,
stages=[
{
"type": "feature_search",
"method": "hybrid",
"query": {"text": "quarterly revenue projections"},
"limit": 20
},
{"type": "rerank", "model": "cross-encoder", "limit": 5}
]
)
# Results span PDFs, slide decks, video recordings, and images
for r in results:
print(f"{r.modality}: {r.content[:100]} (score: {r.score})")What Teams Build With It
From content moderation to knowledge retrieval — one platform powers every unstructured data use case.
Multimodal RAG
Build retrieval pipelines that search across video transcripts, slide decks, images, and documents in a single query. Ground LLM responses in multimodal evidence.
Content Moderation
Detect brand safety violations, inappropriate content, and policy breaches across video, image, and text at scale. Classify with custom taxonomies.
Digital Asset Management
Make millions of media files searchable by what's in them — not just their filenames. Auto-tag, cluster, and organize content libraries.
Document Intelligence
Extract structured data from complex documents — contracts, invoices, medical records, engineering specs — with layout-aware parsing and semantic search.
Video Intelligence
Search inside video by scene, dialogue, on-screen text, or visual content. Build highlight reels, find compliance issues, or power recommendation engines.
Knowledge Base
Turn scattered enterprise content — recordings, wikis, presentations, reports — into a unified, searchable knowledge base that actually understands the content.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is unstructured data processing?
Unstructured data processing is the practice of converting raw, unorganized content — videos, images, PDFs, audio files, presentations — into structured, searchable, and retrievable data. This involves feature extraction (OCR, transcription, object detection, embedding generation), indexing, and making the data available for search, analytics, and AI applications.
Why can't I just use a traditional data warehouse for unstructured data?
Traditional data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) are designed for structured, tabular data. They can store references to unstructured files, but they can't extract meaning from a video frame, understand an image, or transcribe audio. You need a system that natively processes and indexes the content within those files — not just their metadata.
How is Mixpeek different from Unstructured.io?
Unstructured.io focuses on document parsing — extracting text and layout from PDFs and documents. Mixpeek is an end-to-end multimodal data warehouse: it handles ingestion, feature extraction across all modalities (video, image, audio, documents), embedding generation, vector indexing, and retrieval pipelines. Unstructured.io gives you parsed output; Mixpeek gives you a production-ready search and retrieval system.
What file types does Mixpeek support?
Mixpeek natively processes video (MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM), images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, HEIC), documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML), audio (MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG), and plain text. Each file type has dedicated feature extractors optimized for that modality.
Can I bring my own models for feature extraction?
Yes. Mixpeek includes 50+ built-in extractors, but you can also deploy custom models as Docker containers that run on Mixpeek's Ray GPU clusters. This lets you use proprietary or fine-tuned models while leveraging Mixpeek's infrastructure for scaling and orchestration.
How does Mixpeek handle large-scale unstructured data processing?
Mixpeek uses Ray for distributed GPU processing with auto-scaling clusters. When you upload a batch of files, processing is automatically parallelized across available GPUs. Batch jobs include progress tracking and monitoring. The system scales from single files to millions of documents without configuration changes.
Can I deploy Mixpeek in my own cloud environment?
Yes. Mixpeek offers three deployment options: Managed Cloud (fully managed multi-tenant), Dedicated Cloud (single-tenant in Mixpeek's cloud), and BYO Cloud (deployed in your own VPC on AWS, GCP, or Azure). The BYO Cloud option gives you complete data sovereignty while Mixpeek manages the software.
How is this different from building my own pipeline with open-source tools?
You can build a pipeline with Whisper + CLIP + Tesseract + Qdrant + a custom orchestrator. But you'll spend weeks on infrastructure, GPU management, scaling, error handling, and keeping models up to date. Mixpeek collapses that into a single platform with an API — same capabilities, fraction of the engineering effort. When a component fails at 3am, it's our problem, not yours.
