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# Unstructured enrichments

> Learn how Unstructured's enriching feature adds image descriptions, table descriptions, table to HTML, NER, and generative OCR to processed documents.

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*Enriching* adds enhancements to the processed data that Unstructured produces. These enrichments include:

* Providing a summarized description of the contents of a detected image. See [Image descriptions](/concepts/enriching/image-descriptions).
* Providing a summarized description of the contents of a detected table. See [Table descriptions](/concepts/enriching/table-descriptions).
* Providing a representation of a detected table in HTML markup format. See [Tables to HTML](/concepts/enriching/table-to-html).
* Providing a list of recognized entities and their types, through a process known as *named entity recognition* (NER). See [Named entity recognition](/concepts/enriching/ner).
* Having a vision language model (VLM) use advanced optical character recognition (OCR) to improve the accuracy of initially-processed text blocks. See [Generative OCR](/concepts/enriching/generative-ocr).

To add an enrichment, add one of the following enrichment node types to an Unstructured workflow:

* [Image Description](/concepts/enriching/image-descriptions) to provide a summarized description of the contents of each detected image.
* [Table Description](/concepts/enriching/table-descriptions) to provide a summarized description of the contents of each detected table.
* [Table to HTML](/concepts/enriching/table-to-html) to provide a representation of each detected table in HTML markup format.00
* [NER](/concepts/enriching/ner) to provide a list of recognized entities and their types by using a technique called *named entity recognition* (NER).
* [Generative OCR](/concepts/enriching/generative-ocr) to have a VLM use advanced OCR to improve the accuracy of initially-processed text blocks.

For multiple enrichments, add an enrichment node for each additional enrichment type to your workflow.

When more than one enrichment writes to the same element's `text` field, all of the results are kept. Each result is
labeled with the name of the enrichment that produced it. The results appear in the order that the enrichment nodes
run, separated by a blank line. For example, when a workflow applies both generative OCR and image descriptions to the
same image, that element's `text` field contains the following:

```text theme={null}
ocr: <the text that generative OCR recognized in the image>

image_description: <the summarized description of the image>
```

When only one enrichment writes to an element's `text` field, the result is not labeled.

<Warning>
  Unstructured can potentially generate image summary descriptions, table summary descriptions, table-to-HTML output, and generative OCR optimizations, only for workflows that are configured as follows:

  * With a **Partitioner** node set to use the **Auto** or **High Res** partitioning strategy, and an image summary description node, table summary description node, table-to-HTML output node, or generative OCR optimization node is added.
  * With a **Partitioner** node set to use the **VLM** partitioning strategy. No image summary description node, table summary description node, table-to-HTML output node, or generative OCR optimization node is needed (or allowed).

  Even with these configurations, Unstructured actually generates image summary descriptions, table summary descriptions, and table-to-HTML output only for files that contain images or tables and are also eligible
  for processing with the following partitioning strategies:

  * **High Res**, when the workflow's **Partitioner** node is set to use **Auto** or **High Res**.
  * **VLM** or **High Res**, when the workflow's **Partitioner** node is set to use **VLM**.

  Unstructured never generates image summary descriptions, table summary descriptions, or table-to-HTML output for workflows that are configured as follows:

  * With a **Partitioner** node set to use the **Fast** partitioning strategy.
  * With a **Partitioner** node set to use the **Auto**, **High Res**, or **VLM** partitioning strategy, for all files that Unstructured encounters that do not contain images or tables.

  Unstructured never produces generative OCR optimizations for workflows with a **Partitioner** node set to use the **Fast** partitioning strategy.
</Warning>