Docling AI Document Intelligence Pipeline
Docling is an IBM-backed open-source toolkit that converts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images, audio, and LaTeX files into structured formats for gen AI workflows. It features advanced PDF layout understanding, OCR, table extraction, and integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install docling
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Note: Python 3.9 support was dropped in docling version 2.70.0. Please use Python 3.10 or higher.
3. Python usage (recommended)
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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1. Install
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docling-project/docling/HEAD/README.md