Introduction to parsing HTML files with Docling

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

Supported file formats

Docling supports multiple file formats..

• Advanced PDF understanding
• Microsoft Office DOCX
• HTML files (with optional support for images)

Three backends for handling HTML files

Docling has three backends for parsing HTML files:

1. HTMLDocumentBackend Ignores images
2. HTMLDocumentBackendImagesInline Extracts images inline
3. HTMLDocumentBackendImagesReferenced Extracts images as references