docling/README.md
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# Docling
Docling bundles PDF document conversion to JSON and Markdown in an easy, self-contained package.
## Features
* ⚡ Converts any PDF document to JSON or Markdown format, stable and lightning fast
* 📑 Understands detailed page layout, reading order and recovers table structures
* 📝 Extracts metadata from the document, such as title, authors, references and language
* 🔍 Optionally applies OCR (use with scanned PDFs)
## Setup
For general usage, you can simply install `docling` through `pip` from the pypi package index.
```
pip install docling
```
**Notes**:
* Works on macOS and Linux environments. Windows platforms are currently not tested.
### Development setup
To develop for `docling`, you need Python 3.11 and `poetry`. Install poetry from [here](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installing-with-the-official-installer).
Once you have `poetry` installed and cloned this repo, create an environment and install `docling` from the repo root:
```bash
poetry env use $(which python3.11)
poetry shell
poetry install
```
## Usage
For basic usage, see the [convert.py](https://github.com/DS4SD/docling/blob/main/examples/convert.py) example module. Run with:
```
python examples/convert.py
```
The output of the above command will be written to `./scratch`.
### Enable or disable pipeline features
You can control if table structure recognition or OCR should be performed by arguments passed to `DocumentConverter`
```python
doc_converter = DocumentConverter(
artifacts_path=artifacts_path,
pipeline_options=PipelineOptions(do_table_structure=False, # Controls if table structure is recovered.
do_ocr=True), # Controls if OCR is applied (ignores programmatic content)
)
```
### Impose limits on the document size
You can limit the file size and number of pages which should be allowed to process per document.
```python
paths = [Path("./test/data/2206.01062.pdf")]
input = DocumentConversionInput.from_paths(
paths, limits=DocumentLimits(max_num_pages=100, max_file_size=20971520)
)
```
### Convert from binary PDF streams
You can convert PDFs from a binary stream instead of from the filesystem as follows:
```python
buf = BytesIO(your_binary_stream)
docs = [DocumentStream(filename="my_doc.pdf", stream=buf)]
input = DocumentConversionInput.from_streams(docs)
converted_docs = doc_converter.convert(input)
```
### Limit resource usage
You can limit the CPU threads used by `docling` by setting the environment variable `OMP_NUM_THREADS` accordingly. The default setting is using 4 CPU threads.
## Contributing
Please read [Contributing to Docling](https://github.com/DS4SD/docling/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
## References
If you use `Docling` in your projects, please consider citing the following:
```bib
@software{Docling,
author = {Deep Search Team},
month = {7},
title = {{Docling}},
url = {https://github.com/DS4SD/docling},
version = {main},
year = {2024}
}
```
## License
The `Docling` codebase is under MIT license.
For individual model usage, please refer to the model licenses found in the original packages.