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

## Getting started

🐣 Ready to kick off your Docling journey? Let's dive right into it!

<div class="grid">
  <a href="../docling/getting_started/installation/" class="card"><b>⬇️ Installation</b><br />Quickly install Docling in your environment</a>
  <a href="../docling/getting_started/quickstart/" class="card"><b>▶️ Quickstart</b><br />Get a jumpstart on basic Docling usage</a>
  <a href="../docling/concepts/" class="card"><b>🧩 Concepts</b><br />Learn Docling fundamentals and get a glimpse under the hood</a>
  <a href="../docling/examples/" class="card"><b>🧑🏽‍🍳 Examples</b><br />Try out recipes for various use cases, including conversion, RAG, and more</a>
  <a href="../docling/integrations/" class="card"><b>🤖 Integrations</b><br />Check out integrations with popular AI tools and frameworks</a>
  <a href="../docling/reference/document_converter/" class="card"><b>📖 Reference</b><br />See more API details</a>
</div>

## Features

* 🗂️  Parsing of [multiple document formats][supported_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][docling_document] representation format
* ↪️  Various [export formats][supported_formats] and options, including Markdown, HTML, [DocTags](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11576) 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
* 👓 Support of several Visual Language Models ([GraniteDocling](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M))
* 🎙️  Support for Audio with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models
* 🔌 Connect to any agent using the [Docling MCP](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/mcp/) server
* 💻 Simple and convenient CLI

### What's new
* 📤 Structured [information extraction][extraction] \[🧪 beta\]
* 📑 New layout model (**Heron**) by default, for faster PDF parsing
* 🔌 [MCP server](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/mcp/) for agentic applications
* 💬 Parsing of Web Video Text Tracks (WebVTT) files

### Coming soon

* 📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
* 📝 Chart understanding (Barchart, Piechart, LinePlot, etc)
* 📝 Complex chemistry understanding (Molecular structures)

## What's next

🚀 The journey has just begun! Join us and become a part of the growing Docling community.

- <a href="https://github.com/docling-project/docling">:fontawesome-brands-github: GitHub</a>
- <a href="https://docling.ai/discord">:fontawesome-brands-discord: Discord</a>
- <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/docling/">:fontawesome-brands-linkedin: LinkedIn</a>

## Live assistant

Do you want to leverage the power of AI and get live support on Docling?
Try out the [Chat with Dosu](https://app.dosu.dev/097760a8-135e-4789-8234-90c8837d7f1c/ask?utm_source=github) functionalities provided by our friends at [Dosu](https://dosu.dev/).

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## LF AI & Data

Docling is hosted as a project in the [LF AI & Data Foundation](https://lfaidata.foundation/projects/).

### IBM ❤️ Open Source AI

The project was started by the AI for knowledge team at IBM Research Zurich.

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