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---
title: "CSVToDocument"
id: csvtodocument
slug: "/csvtodocument"
description: "Converts CSV files to documents."
---
# CSVToDocument
Converts CSV files to documents.
<div className="key-value-table">
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Most common position in a pipeline** | Before [PreProcessors](../preprocessors.mdx) , or right at the beginning of an indexing pipeline |
| **Mandatory run variables** | `sources`: A list of file paths or [ByteStream](../../concepts/data-classes.mdx#bytestream) objects |
| **Output variables** | `documents`: A list of documents |
| **API reference** | [Converters](/reference/converters-api) |
| **GitHub link** | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/blob/main/haystack/components/converters/csv.py |
</div>
## Overview
`CSVToDocument` converts one or more CSV files into a text document.
The component uses UTF-8 encoding by default, but you may specify a different encoding if needed during initialization.
You can optionally attach metadata to each document with a `meta` parameter when running the component.
## Usage
### On its own
```python
from haystack.components.converters.csv import CSVToDocument
converter = CSVToDocument()
results = converter.run(sources=["sample.csv"], meta={"date_added": datetime.now().isoformat()})
documents = results["documents"]
print(documents[0].content)
## 'col1,col2\now1,row1\nrow2row2\n'
```
### In a pipeline
```python
from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.components.converters import CSVToDocument
from haystack.components.preprocessors import DocumentCleaner
from haystack.components.preprocessors import DocumentSplitter
from haystack.components.writers import DocumentWriter
document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()
pipeline = Pipeline()
pipeline.add_component("converter", CSVToDocument())
pipeline.add_component("cleaner", DocumentCleaner())
pipeline.add_component("splitter", DocumentSplitter(split_by="sentence", split_length=5))
pipeline.add_component("writer", DocumentWriter(document_store=document_store))
pipeline.connect("converter", "cleaner")
pipeline.connect("cleaner", "splitter")
pipeline.connect("splitter", "writer")
pipeline.run({"converter": {"sources": file_names}})
```