Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understanding — and providing seamless integrations with the generative AI ecosystem.
Features
🗂️ Parsing of multiple document formats including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, EPUB, Apple Pages, Numbers & Keynote, WAV, MP3, WebVTT, Box Notes, email formats (EML, MSG), iCalendar (ICS), images (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, ...), LaTeX, DocLang, plain text, and more
📑 Advanced PDF understanding incl. page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification, and more
🧬 A unified, expressive DoclingDocument representation format
↪️ Various export formats and options, including Markdown, HTML, WebVTT, DocLang, DocTags and lossless JSON
📜 Support for several application-specific XML schemas including DocLang, USPTO patents, JATS articles, and XBRL financial reports.
🔒 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 for several Visual Language Models, such as (GraniteDocling)
🎙️ Audio support with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models
🌐 Run Docling as a service with the API server (docling-serve)
💻 Simple and convenient CLI
What's new
🎬 Parsing of video files (MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, and WebM) with an ASR transcript and representative keyframes
📄 Parsing of ODF (OpenDocument Format) files for text documents (.odt), spreadsheets (.ods), and presentations (.odp)
💼 Parsing of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) and iXBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language) documents for financial reports
📧 Parsing of email files (.eml, .msg)
📅 Parsing of calendar files (.ics, .ical, .icalendar, .ifb) with events, tasks, journal entries and free/busy times, with attendees, reminders and attachment names
📚 Parsing of EPUB (Electronic Publication) files for e-books
🍎 Parsing of Apple Pages (.pages) documents, Numbers (.numbers) spreadsheets and Keynote (.key) presentations
📝 Parsing of plain-text files (.txt, .text) and Markdown supersets (.qmd, .Rmd)
📊 Chart understanding (Barchart, Piechart, LinePlot): convert them into tables or code and add detailed descriptions
Coming soon
📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
from docling.document_converter import DocumentConverter
source = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.09869" # a document via a local path or URL
converter = DocumentConverter()
result = converter.convert(source)
print(result.document.export_to_markdown()) # output: "## Docling Technical Report[...]"
The project was started by the AI for knowledge team at IBM Research Zurich.
At a glance
Category
Coding
Pricing model
Free
Best for
ai-agents, tool, document-parsing
What is Docling? Docling is a coding tool listed on Scriptiii AI Tools. Toolkit for parsing PDFs and other documents into structured formats for generative AI. Pricing: Free. Free to use. Best for: ai-agents, tool, document-parsing.
Questions & answers
Everything you need to know about Docling
What is Docling?
Docling is a coding tool. Toolkit for parsing PDFs and other documents into structured formats for generative AI.
What does Docling cost?
Free. Free to use.
What is Docling best for?
ai-agents, tool, document-parsing. It is filed under Coding.
