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    Beyond Document Parsing

    Unstructured Data Processing for AI

    80-90% of enterprise data is unstructured — videos, images, PDFs, audio recordings — and invisible to your AI stack. Mixpeek processes it all into searchable, indexed, retrieval-ready data through one API.

    The Unstructured Data Problem

    Your data warehouse handles rows and columns. But your most valuable data doesn't fit in a table.

    80-90%
    of enterprise data is unstructured

    Videos, images, PDFs, audio recordings, presentations — the fastest-growing data in every organization is invisible to traditional analytics and AI systems.

    5+ Tools
    stitched together in a typical pipeline

    Whisper for audio, CLIP for images, Tesseract for OCR, a vector database, an orchestrator — each with its own deployment, scaling, and failure modes.

    Weeks
    to build a production pipeline from scratch

    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.

    Step 1

    Ingest

    Connect any object store or upload via API

    S3, GCS, Azure Blob, or direct upload. Bucket triggers start processing automatically when files land.

    Step 2

    Decompose

    Extract features from every modality

    50+ extractors: OCR, transcription, object detection, scene understanding, face recognition, embeddings.

    Step 3

    Index

    Store in a unified multimodal index

    Every extracted feature gets embedded and indexed alongside metadata. One namespace, all modalities.

    Step 4

    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.

    FeatureMixpeekDIY (Open Source)Unstructured.io
    Data TypesVideo, image, audio, documents, text — all nativeOne tool per modality, glued togetherDocuments and images only
    Embedding GenerationBuilt-in (50+ extractors, GPU-accelerated)BYO models, manage GPU infrastructureNot included — output only
    Vector IndexingIncluded (hybrid search, metadata filtering)BYO vector databaseNot included
    Retrieval PipelineComposable stages (filter, search, rerank, enrich)Custom code requiredNot included
    ScalingAuto-scaling Ray GPU clustersManual scaling per componentManaged for parsing only
    DeploymentManaged cloud, dedicated, or BYO cloud (your VPC)Self-managed everythingManaged 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.

    pipeline.py
    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})")

    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.

    Stop stitching. Start shipping.

    Replace your cobbled-together pipeline with one API that handles every modality end-to-end.