Docling

Docling simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understanding — and providing seamless integrations with the gen AI ecosystem.

Features

• 🗂️ Parsing of multiple document formats incl. PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, images, and more
• 📑 Advanced PDF understanding incl. page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification, and more
• 🧬 Unified, expressive DoclingDocument representation format
• ↪️ Various export formats and options, including Markdown, HTML, and lossless JSON
• 🔒 Local execution capabilities for sensitive data and air-gapped environments
• 🤖 Plug-and-play integrations incl. LangChain, LlamaIndex, Crew AI & Haystack for agentic AI
• 🔍 Extensive OCR support for scanned PDFs and images
• 🥚 Support of Visual Language Models (SmolDocling) 🆕🔥
• 💻 Simple and convenient CLI

Coming soon

• 📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
• 📝 Chart understanding (Barchart, Piechart, LinePlot, etc)
• 📝 Complex chemistry understanding (Molecular structures)

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Concepts
Learn Docling fundamendals Examples
Try out recipes for various use cases, including conversion, RAG, and more Integrations
Check out integrations with popular frameworks and tools Reference
See more API details

LF AI & Data

Docling is hosted as a project in the LF AI & Data Foundation.

IBM ❤️ Open Source AI

The project was started by the AI for knowledge team at IBM Research Zurich.