# Querying Unstructured text

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 9, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033 "2022-12-09T13:59:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kapadiup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@kapadiup](https://community.dremio.com/u/kapadiup)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/1 "2022-12-09T13:59:59Z")

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How do I use Dremio to query and return results for large unstructured text files like logs, etc. I have tried to load the data as Iceberg, Delta, Parquet, and JSON and I keep hitting the 32k query limit. I was under the impression that Dremio can query unstructured data but I can’t seem to figure out the best way to do it. If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks  
Uddie

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/2 "2022-12-15T17:11:22Z")

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@kapadiup There is currently a product limit of field width max of 32K, so if the field cannot be separated based on a delimiter then that limit is probably going to be an issue

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**Author:** ![rohith.krishnakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rohith.krishnakumar](https://community.dremio.com/u/rohith.krishnakumar)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/3 "2025-04-23T07:33:04Z")

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We’ve PDF data in our object storage (S3 and Azure Blob Storage), we’d like to know if there’s any way within dremio to be able to query the contents through a view. We understand that we need to convert the PDFs into an organized data structure like JSON, Parquet etc. but our data isn’t organized like that. It can be brochures, whitepapers etc. So, what’s the best way to go about this?

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**Author:** ![rohith.krishnakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rohith.krishnakumar](https://community.dremio.com/u/rohith.krishnakumar)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/4 "2025-04-24T06:45:57Z")

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@balaji.ramaswamy could you help us with this?

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**Author:** ![rohith.krishnakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rohith.krishnakumar](https://community.dremio.com/u/rohith.krishnakumar)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 6:53am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/5 "2025-04-28T06:53:49Z")

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@balaji.ramaswamy , any expedited help on this would be much appreciated

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/querying-unstructured-text/10033/6 "2025-04-28T15:08:51Z")

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@rohith.krishnakumar Currently Dremio does not support reading PDFs