> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unstructured.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Unstructured Transform overview

> Unstructured Transform quickly turns any document into structured data that is ready for your apps, databases, vector stores, AI tools, and agents.

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Getting documents AI-ready usually means many hours, days, or even weeks of custom pipelines and ongoing maintenance as documents, formats, and systems change. Unstructured Transform quickly turns your files into structured data to feed to your apps, databases,
vector stores, AI tools, and agents.

Transform is available as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. MCP is an industry standard for connecting AI tools to apps and data sources. The Transform MCP server enables you to link your AI tools to Transform. You can then use your AI tools to have Transform ingest your local files and output the results as partitioned, enriched, chunked, and embedded data, ready for your
immediate use.

Because it is built on the open MCP standard, the Transform MCP server works with virtually any MCP client, host, or agent framework that supports MCP and can make outbound network requests to the server. This includes most AI code editors, IDEs, desktop assistants, and coding-agent frameworks. Tools such as the Codex CLI, Claude Code, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and JetBrains IDEs are just a few examples.

1. **Drag and drop a file**: No complex setup or complicated source connector configuration.

   * Process 60+ document formats with a single pipeline: PDFs, emails, images, scanned files, and more.
   * Get started in a few minutes with no lengthy integration work required.

2. **Describe what you need**: Use plain-language prompts to drive Transform.

   * Use simple words and phrases to tell Transform what you want. Go quickly from raw files to extracted and parsed data without manual configuration or coding.
   * Flat per-page pricing keeps costs predictable across all document and extraction types.

Learn more about how Transform handles file [partitioning](/concepts/partitioning), [enriching](/concepts/enriching/overview),
[chunking](/concepts/chunking), and [embedding](/concepts/embedding) to produce data that is all ready to go!

## Drag, drop, and go!

The fastest path to extracted and parsed data is to drop a file, describe your intent, and Transform handles the rest. This mode is ideal for testing, one-off processing, and evaluating what Transform can do with your specific content. [Get started](/transform/quickstart).

## Supported file types

Unstructured Transform works with many [supported file types](/transform/supported-file-types).

## Pricing

You can try Unstructured Transform for free, with your first 15,000 pages extracted and parsed by
Transform each month at no charge. After that, your credit card is charged at a
pay-as-you-go rate of \$0.03 per page, billed monthly. The average per-page rate goes down the more pages
you have Transform parse, to as low as \$0.003 per page for one million pages for a given month. [Learn more](/transform/billing).

## Next step

* [Transform quickstart](/transform/quickstart): Install the Unstructured Transform MCP server, drag and drop files, and have Transform start producing partitioned and enriched data based on your files in minutes.