# Unfold

> Unfold gives your app one API for document parsing across providers.

## Docs

- [One API for document parsing](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/index.md): Durable document parsing across providers through one API.
- [Quickstart](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/quickstart.md): Install the TypeScript SDK and parse a document with Unfold.
- [Guides](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/guides/overview.md): Recipes for hosted documents, jobs, compare, and waitForExecution.
- [Fast preview, then full parse](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/guides/fast-then-strong.md): Show a LiteParse result as soon as it is ready while a heavier engine keeps running.
- [Cheap path, then escalate](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/guides/cheap-path.md): Parse with LiteParse first. Start a heavier engine only when the cheap result is not enough.
- [Bake off engines](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/guides/bake-off.md): Use compare to score engines on your own documents for quality, latency, and cost.
- [Idempotency and cleanup](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/guides/durable-jobs.md): Safe retries, retention windows, and cleaning up hosted documents.
- [How Unfold works](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/concepts/how-it-works.md): The stable contract between your application and document parsing providers.
- [Hosted and direct processing](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/concepts/processing-modes.md): Choose where Unfold runs and where your documents travel.
- [Results](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/concepts/results.md): The normalized result shapes returned by Unfold.
- [Parse](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/sdk/parse.md): Parse a document with one provider using the TypeScript SDK.
- [Compare](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/sdk/compare.md): Run one document across providers and retain every outcome.
- [Provider options](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/sdk/provider-options.md): Pass provider-native settings without leaking them across adapters.
- [CLI](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/cli/overview.md): Parse and compare documents from the terminal.
- [Hosted API](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/api/overview.md): Create durable document parsing jobs over HTTP.
- [Documents and jobs](https://unfold-0a6049eb.mintlify.app/api/jobs.md): Store a document and run explicit provider executions.


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