Datalab

Datalab converts and extracts structured data from documents, offering an API, playground and deployment options for teams processing large document volumes.

  • API · Web app
  • Verified 20 Oct 2026

What Datalab does

The product turns PDFs, spreadsheets and slides into structured text formats such as markdown, HTML and JSON. Users can pull defined fields out of documents using extraction schemas. Models can be run in a managed cloud, inside a private cloud, or on networks without internet access.

Built for

  • AI research labs
  • Financial services, healthcare and insurance teams
  • Regulated environments and research labs needing on-prem deployment

Key features

  • Converts PDFs and spreadsheets to markdown, HTML and JSON
  • Extracts information using predefined schemas
  • Splits combined files into separate documents
  • Evaluates output quality against custom rubrics
  • Pipeline composition and versioned deployment
  • Deployment in managed cloud, VPC or air-gapped setups

Pros

Pros

  • Provides word-level bounding boxes in converted output.
  • Offers a free tier with no credit card needed to start.
  • Open-source models are available alongside the managed platform.

Where Datalab is listed

Datalab is listed under document data extraction in Data and analytics AI tools.

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