Docling parses PDFs, DOCX, PPTX and images into structured representations with layout, tables and reading order, designed to plug straight into RAG frameworks.
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pip install docling
- 📑 Advanced PDF understanding incl. page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification, and more
- 🧬 A unified, expressive [DoclingDocument][doclingdocument] representation format
- ↪️ Various [export formats][supportedformats] and options, including Markdown, HTML, WebVTT, DocLang, DocTags and lossless JSON
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docling has 63.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 4.5k times. docling is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2024. docling is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are ai, convert, document-parser, document-parsing.
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Is docling open source?
docling is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.
Is docling free?
Yes. docling is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does docling use?
docling is available under the MIT license.
What language is docling written in?
docling is written mainly in Python.
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