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Docling

Python library and CLI that converts documents into structured data for AI

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What it is

Docling parses PDFs, Office files, HTML, EPUB, email, images, audio and more into a unified document model, recovering layout, reading order, tables, formulas and code. It exports to Markdown, HTML, or lossless JSON, runs OCR on scans, and can use vision-language models or speech recognition, all locally. Developers building RAG pipelines and agents use it to feed clean document content into LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, or any MCP-capable agent.

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69,193 GitHub stars.
69,193

Forks
5,120
Commits
1,718
Contributors
375
Language
Python
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
July 2024
First release
July 2024
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, library
Self-hostable
No
Alternative to
Adobe Acrobat, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Amazon Textract
Tags
  • mcp-server
  • pdf
  • ocr
  • document-parsing
  • file-conversion
  • rag

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Bluesky“For those of you who are using IBM Docling ( for document conversion, processing, and parsing; IBM has released an open-weight VLM - Granite-Docling-258M, a…”Sep 18, 2025 · 15 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“this is neat. not even considering genai stuff it's nice to be able to convert random stuff to markdown to put in smth else”Sep 20, 2025 · 5 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Give Docling a try! It can using OCR using a tesseract backend as well as the latest state-of-the-art VLM models.”Sep 24, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“That's Granite Docling, this is Docling. Blame IBM for the confusing product naming schema.”Aug 28, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsDocling simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formatsSep 8, 2025 · 2 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“This is a great Python library for converting PDFs (or other files) to Markdown!”Aug 4, 2025 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsDocling: Document Processing, Diverse Format Parsing, Advanced PDF UnderstandingMay 15, 2025 · 2 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“3. Docling a truly brilliant package from IBM that can convert PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, WAV, MP3, WebVTT, images (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, …), LaTeX, … to plain…”Mar 19, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I tried docling And it does the sequence alone. It was for pdf of manuscript, but was impressive and fast, and tables in markdown were perfect”Feb 25, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Github Repo:”Jan 29, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Input raw contracts, reports, and research papers to your agents, and use Docling to turn it into structured data. Try it out yourself, directly from Claude…”Oct 25, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“If you'd like to give it a try, here's the gist: And you can find more information about the integration on the Arconia documentation: Docling is a fantastic…”Aug 7, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“no idea whether actually relevant but have you looked at docling, as recently referenced in thoughtworks technology radar?”May 4, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“neat library”Feb 19, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - docling-project/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI Docling simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF…”Dec 27, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - docling-project/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI”Oct 15, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“My Two Favorite Solutions for PDF Parsing 🔹 Azure AI Document Intelligence (Azure Cloud) 🔹 Docling (Open sourced by IBM)”Jun 5, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Interesting project...”Apr 22, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)