docling/docs/index.md

# Docling

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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
* 🔍 Includes OCR support for scanned PDFs
* 🤖 Integrates easily with LLM app / RAG frameworks like LlamaIndex&nbsp;🦙 & LangChain&nbsp;🦜🔗
* 💻 Provides a simple and convenient CLI