docling/docs/v2.md
Christoph Auer 74e0452b6a Add migration instructions to doc (wip)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>
2024-10-15 17:08:48 +02:00

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## What's new
Docling v2 introduces several new features:
- Understands and converts PDF, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, HTML and several image formats
- Produces a new, universal document representation which can encapsulate document hierarchy
- Comes with a fresh new API and CLI
## Migration from v1
### Setting up a `DocumentConverter`
To accomodate many input formats, we changed the way you need to set up your `DocumentConverter` object.
You can now define a list of allowed formats on the `DocumentConverter` initialization, and specify custom options
per-format if desired. By default, all supported formats are allowed. If you don't provide `format_options`, defaults
will be used for all `allowed_formats`.
Format options can include the pipeline class to use, the options to provide to the pipeline, and the document backend.
They are provided as format-specific types, such as `PdfFormatOption` or `WordFormatOption`, as seen below.
```python
from docling.document_converter import DocumentConverter
from docling.datamodel.base_models import InputFormat
from docling.document_converter import (
DocumentConverter,
PdfFormatOption,
WordFormatOption,
)
from docling.pipeline.simple_pipeline import SimplePipeline
from docling.pipeline.standard_pdf_pipeline import StandardPdfPipeline
from docling.backend.pypdfium2_backend import PyPdfiumDocumentBackend
## Default initialization still works as before:
# doc_converter = DocumentConverter()
## Custom options are now defined per format.
doc_converter = (
DocumentConverter( # all of the below is optional, has internal defaults.
allowed_formats=[
InputFormat.PDF,
InputFormat.IMAGE,
InputFormat.DOCX,
InputFormat.HTML,
InputFormat.PPTX,
], # whitelist formats, non-matching files are ignored.
format_options={
InputFormat.PDF: PdfFormatOption(
pipeline_cls=StandardPdfPipeline, backend=PyPdfiumDocumentBackend
),
InputFormat.DOCX: WordFormatOption(
pipeline_cls=SimplePipeline # , backend=MsWordDocumentBackend
),
},
)
)
```
Note: If you work only with defaults, all remains the same as in Docling v1.
### Converting documents
We have simplified the way you can feed input to the `DocumentConverter` and renamed the conversion methods for
better semantics. You can now call the conversion directly with a single file, or a list of input files,
or `DocumentStream` objects, without constructing a `DocumentConversionInput` object first.
* `DocumentConverter.convert` now converts a single file input (previously `DocumentConverter.convert_single`).
* `DocumentConverter.convert_all` now converts many files at once (previously `DocumentConverter.convert`).
```python
...
## Convert a single file (from URL or local path)
conv_result = doc_converter.convert("https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.09869") # previously `convert_single`
## Convert several files at once:
input_files = [
"tests/data/wiki_duck.html",
"tests/data/word_sample.docx",
"tests/data/lorem_ipsum.docx",
"tests/data/powerpoint_sample.pptx",
"tests/data/2305.03393v1-pg9-img.png",
"tests/data/2206.01062.pdf",
]
conv_results_iter = doc_converter.convert_all(input_files) # previously `convert_batch`
```
Through the `raises_on_error` argument, you can also control if the conversion should raise exceptions when first
encountering a problem, or resiliently convert all files first and reflect errors in each file's conversion status.
By default, any error is immediately raised and the conversion aborts (previously, exceptions were swallowed).
```python
...
conv_results_iter = doc_converter.convert_all(input_files, raises_on_error=False) # previously `convert_batch`
```
### Exporting documents into JSON, Markdown, Doctags
We have simplified how you can access and export the converted document data, too.
TBD.
### CLI
TBD.