Docling preps your files for Gen AI, RAG, and beyond!

The open-source toolkit, Docling, allows developers to more easily convert PDFs, manuals, and slide decks into specialized data for customizing enterprise AI models and grounding them on trusted information.

Features

• 🗂️ Parsing of multiple document formats incl. PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, WAV, MP3, VTT, images (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, …), 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, DocTags 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 several Visual Language Models (GraniteDocling)
• 🎙️ Support for Audio with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models
• 🔌 Connect to any agent using the Docling MCP server
• 💻 Simple and convenient CLI

IBM donated Docling as an Incubation-stage project to LF AI & Data Foundation in April 2025.