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Docling simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understanding — and providing seamless integrations with the gen AI ecosystem.

## Features

* 🗂️ Parsing of [multiple document formats][supported_formats] incl. PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, images, and more
* 📑 Advanced PDF understanding incl. page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification, and more
* 🧬 Unified, expressive [DoclingDocument][docling_document] representation format
* ↪️ Various [export formats][supported_formats] and options, including Markdown, HTML, and lossless JSON
* 🔒 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
* 💻 Simple and convenient CLI

### Coming soon

* 📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
* 📝 Inclusion of Visual Language Models ([SmolDocling](https://huggingface.co/blog/smolervlm#smoldocling))
* 📝 Chart understanding (Barchart, Piechart, LinePlot, etc)
* 📝 Complex chemistry understanding (Molecular structures)

## Get started

<div class="grid">
  <a href="concepts/" class="card"><b>Concepts</b><br />Learn Docling fundamendals</a>
  <a href="examples/" class="card"><b>Examples</b><br />Try out recipes for various use cases, including conversion, RAG, and more</a>
  <a href="integrations/" class="card"><b>Integrations</b><br />Check out integrations with popular frameworks and tools</a>
  <a href="reference/document_converter/" class="card"><b>Reference</b><br />See more API details</a>
</div>

## IBM ❤️ Open Source AI

Docling has been brought to you by IBM.

[supported_formats]: ./usage/supported_formats.md
[docling_document]: ./concepts/docling_document.md
[integrations]: ./integrations/index.md
