Audience

AI teams that want to convert complex documents into structured data for document processing, RAG, and agentic applications

About Docling

Docling is an easy-to-use, self-contained, MIT-licensed open source toolkit for converting messy documents into structured data and simplifying downstream document and AI processing. It can parse many popular document formats into a unified and richly structured Docling Document, including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, CSV, images, audio, and scanned pages through an OCR engine of the user’s choice. Docling detects tables, formulas, reading order, chunks, bounding boxes, page headers and footers, pictures, captions, code, list items, paragraphs, cells, and document structure, making extracted content easier to process, search, and ingest into AI, RAG, and agentic systems. It can export parsed documents to JSON, text, Markdown, HTML, and Doctags, giving developers flexible outputs for pipelines and applications. Docling stores and traverses components according to reading order, partitions documents into bite-sized contiguous text chunks.

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Docling
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www.docling.ai/

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Docling Product Features

OCR

Convert to PDF Not Supported
Zone Selection Tool Not Supported
ID Scanning Not Supported
Multi-Language Not Supported
Indexing Not Supported
Metadata Extraction Not Supported
Image Pre-processing Not Supported
Text Editor Not Supported
Multiple Output Formats Not Supported
Batch Processing Not Supported