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# Docling
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## What is Docling ?
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][supported_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][docling_document] representation format
- ↪️ Various [export formats][supported_formats] and options, including Markdown, HTML, WebVTT, DocLang, [DocTags](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11576) and lossless JSON
- 📜 Support for several application-specific XML schemas including [DocLang](https://doclang.ai), [USPTO](https://www.uspto.gov/patents) patents, [JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/) articles, and [XBRL](https://www.xbrl.org/) financial reports.
- 🔒 Local execution capabilities for sensitive data and air-gapped environments
- 🤖 Plug-and-play [integrations][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](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M))
- 🎙️ Audio support with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models
- 🔌 Connect to any agent using the [MCP server](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/mcp/)
- 🌐 Run Docling as a service with the [API server](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/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) 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
- 📝 Complex chemistry understanding (Molecular structures)
## Quickstart
### 1. Install
```bash
pip install docling
```
> **Note:** Python 3.9 support was dropped in docling version 2.70.0. Please use Python 3.10 or higher.
Works on macOS, Linux and Windows environments for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures.
More [detailed installation instructions](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/getting_started/installation/) are available in the docs.
## 2. Convert a document (CLI)
```bash
docling https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01062
```
This generates a .md file in the current directory containing structured document content.
You can also use 🥚[GraniteDocling](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M) and other VLMs via Docling CLI:
```bash
docling --vlm-model granite_docling https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01062
```
## 3. Python usage (recommended)
```python
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[...]"
```
More advanced [usage](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/) and [configuration](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/getting_started/installation/) options.
## Documentation
Check out Docling's [documentation](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/) for details on
installation, usage, concepts, recipes, extensions, and more.
## Examples
Go hands-on with our [examples](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/examples/),
demonstrating how to address different application use cases with Docling.
## Integrations
To further accelerate your AI application development, check out Docling's native
[integrations](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/integrations/) with popular frameworks
and tools.
## Get help and support
Please feel free to connect with us using the [discussion section](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/discussions).
## Technical report
For more details on Docling's inner workings, check out the [Docling Technical Report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869).
## Contributing
Please read [Contributing to Docling](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
## References
If you use Docling in your projects, please consider citing the following:
```bib
@techreport{Docling,
author = {Deep Search Team},
month = {8},
title = {Docling Technical Report},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869},
eprint = {2408.09869},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2408.09869},
version = {1.0.0},
year = {2024}
}
```
## License
The Docling codebase is under MIT license.
For individual model usage, please refer to the model licenses found in the original packages.
## LF AI & Data
Docling is hosted as a project in the [LF AI & Data Foundation](https://lfaidata.foundation/projects/).
### IBM ❤️ Open Source AI
The project was started by the AI for knowledge team at IBM Research Zurich.
[supported_formats]: https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/supported_formats/
[docling_document]: https://docling-project.github.io/docling/concepts/docling_document/
[integrations]: https://docling-project.github.io/docling/integrations/
[extraction]: https://docling-project.github.io/docling/_generated/examples/extraction/