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Connect Azure Storage to your preprocessing pipeline, and use the Unstructured Ingest CLI or the Unstructured Ingest Python library to batch process all your documents and store structured outputs locally on your filesystem.

You will need:

The Azure Storage account prerequisites.

The following video shows how to fulfill the minimum set of Azure Storage account prerequisites:

If you are generating an SAS token as shown in the preceding video, be sure to set the following permissions:

  • Read and List for reading from the container only.
  • Write and List for writing to the container only.
  • Read, Write, and List for both reading from and writing to the container.

Here are some more details about these prerequisites:

  • An Azure account. To create one, learn how.

  • An Azure Storage account, and a container within that account. Create a storage account. Create a container.

  • The Azure Storage remote URL, using the format az://<container-name>/<path/to/file/or/folder/in/container/as/needed>

    For example, if your container is named my-container, and there is a folder in the container named my-folder, the Azure Storage remote URL would be az://my-container/my-folder/.

  • An SAS token (recommended), access key, or connection string for the Azure Storage account. Create an SAS token (recommended). Get an access key. Get a connection string.

    Create an SAS token (recommended):

    Get an access key or connection string:

The Azure Storage account connector dependencies:

CLI, Python
pip install "unstructured-ingest[azure]"

You might also need to install additional dependencies, depending on your needs. Learn more.

These environment variables:

  • AZURE_STORAGE_REMOTE_URL - The Azure Storage remote URL, represented by --remote-url (CLI) or remote_url (Python).

    The remote URL takes the format az://<container-name>/<path/to/file/or/folder/in/container/as/needed>

    For example, if your container is named my-container, and there is a folder in the container named my-folder, the Azure Storage remote URL would be az://my-container/my-folder/.

  • AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME - The name of the Azure Storage account, represented by --account-name (CLI) or account_name (Python).

  • AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY, AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING, or AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN - The name of the key, connection string, or SAS token for the Azure Storage account, depending on your security configuration, represented by --account-key (CLI) or account_key (Python), --connection-string (CLI) or connection_string (Python), and --sas_token (CLI) or sas_token (Python), respectively.

These environment variables:

  • UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY - Your Unstructured API key value.
  • UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL - Your Unstructured API URL.

Now call the Unstructured Ingest CLI or the Unstructured Ingest Python library. The destination connector can be any of the ones supported. This example uses the local destination connector:

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