# docling > SDK and CLI for parsing PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more, to a unified document representation for powering downstream workflows such as gen AI applications. - **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/docling - **Author**: pypi - **Category**: Frameworks - **Latest version**: `v2.97.0` (2026-06-03) - **License**: Unknown - **Source**: https://github.com/docling-project/docling/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md - **Homepage**: https://pypi.org/project/docling/ - **Language**: Python - **GitHub**: 58,310 stars, 4,003 forks - **Registry**: pypi (`docling`) - **Tags**: `convert`, `docling`, `document`, `docx`, `html`, `layout`, `markdown`, `pdf`, `pypi` ## Description

Docling

# Docling

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[![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2408.09869-b31b1b.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869) [![Docs](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-live-brightgreen)](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/) [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/docling)](https://pypi.org/project/docling/) [![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/docling)](https://pypi.org/project/docling/) [![uv](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/uv/main/assets/badge/v0.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) [![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff) [![Pydantic v2](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic/main/docs/badge/v2.json)](https://pydantic.dev) [![pre-commit](https://img.shields.io/badge/pre--commit-enabled-brightgreen?logo=pre-commit&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit) [![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/github/license/docling-project/docling)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [![PyPI Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/docling/month)](https://pepy.tech/projects/docling) [![Docling Actor](https://apify.com/actor-badge?actor=vancura/docling&fpr=docling)](https://apify.com/vancura/docling) [![Chat with Dosu](https://dosu.dev/dosu-chat-badge.svg)](https://app.dosu.dev/097760a8-135e-4789-8234-90c8837d7f1c/ask?utm_source=github) [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1399788921306746971?color=6A7EC2&logo=discord&logoColor=ffffff)](https://docling.ai/discord) [![OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/10101/badge)](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/10101) [![LF AI & Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/LF%20AI%20%26%20Data-003778?logo=linuxfoundation&logoColor=fff&color=0094ff&labelColor=003778)](https://lfaidata.foundation/projects/) Docling simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formats β€” including advanced PDF understanding β€” and providing seamless integrations with the gen AI ecosystem. ## Features * πŸ—‚οΈ Parsing of [multiple document formats][supported_formats] incl. PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, WAV, MP3, WebVTT, images (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, ...), LaTeX, plain text, and more * πŸ“‘ Advanced PDF understanding incl. page layout, reading order, table structure, code, formulas, image classification, and more * 🧬 Unified, expressive [DoclingDocument][docling_document] representation format * β†ͺ️ Various [export formats][supported_formats] and options, including Markdown, HTML, WebVTT, [DocTags](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11576) and lossless JSON * πŸ“œ Support of several application-specifc XML schemas incl. [USPTO](https://www.uspto.gov/patents) patents, [JATS](https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/) articles, and [XBRL](https://www.xbrl.org/) financial reports. * πŸ”’ Local execution capabilities for sensitive data and air-gapped environments * πŸ€– Plug-and-play [integrations][integrations] incl. LangChain, LlamaIndex, Crew AI & Haystack for agentic AI * πŸ” Extensive OCR support for scanned PDFs and images * πŸ‘“ Support of several Visual Language Models ([GraniteDocling](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M)) * πŸŽ™οΈ Audio support with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models * πŸ”Œ Connect to any agent using the [MCP server](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/mcp/) * πŸ’» Simple and convenient CLI ### What's new * πŸ“€ Structured [information extraction][extraction] \[πŸ§ͺ beta\] * πŸ“‘ New layout model (**Heron**) by default, for faster PDF parsing * πŸ”Œ [MCP server](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/mcp/) for agentic applications * πŸ’Ό Parsing of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) documents for financial reports * πŸ’¬ Parsing of WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) files and export to WebVTT format * πŸ’¬ Parsing of LaTeX files * πŸ“ Parsing of plain-text files (`.txt`, `.text`) and Markdown supersets (`.qmd`, `.Rmd`) * πŸ“ Chart understanding (Barchart, Piechart, LinePlot): converting them into tables, code or adding detailed descriptions ### Coming soon * πŸ“ Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language * πŸ“ Complex chemistry understanding (Molecular structures) ## Installation To use Docling, simply install `docling` from your package manager, e.g. pip: ```bash pip install docling ``` > **Note:** Python 3.9 support was dropped in docling version 2.70.0. Please use Python 3.10 or higher ## Recent releases | Version | Date | Urgency | Changes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `v2.97.0` | 2026-06-03 | High | ### Feature * Add email parsing to the backends ([#3475](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3475)) ([`b741c4a`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/b741c4affd736fa3ee5d760cc45956320da3fbb0)) * Row-section support in HTML backend ([#3360](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3360)) ([`d9c71cb`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/d9c71cb172ac2aa844e3ca7141e9673da41ae700)) * **cli:** Fetch HTML images ([#3506](https://github.com/docling-proj | | `v2.96.0` | 2026-05-28 | High | ### Feature * Add threaded docling-parse (v6) PDF backend ([#3377](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3377)) ([`3c26f5a`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/3c26f5a3a8a5904e45848bc1a9e43105fdeba3e3)) ### Fix * Accept JSON transformers model type ([#3488](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3488)) ([`d25aea1`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/d25aea129a81cec331e8078a13dbda1078891d98)) ### Documentation * Fix rendering of icons ([#3 | | `v2.95.0` | 2026-05-21 | High | ### Feature * Add scoped settings context manager ([#3440](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3440)) ([`d907d21`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/d907d21018cf5f71280cf8c4985b2c83dac7de49)) * Add more document metadata in callbacks ([#3485](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3485)) ([`48b4d1c`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/48b4d1c7fdf12907da05ae0bdbdb0509f18e4133)) * **html:** Add custom headers support for HTML backend image f | | `v2.94.0` | 2026-05-18 | High | ### Feature * **latex:** Add optional Tectonic TikZ rendering ([#3369](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3369)) ([`eceedc2`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/eceedc2f4015d058f70cbe506dd4c14b2309281c)) * Add image_placeholder and use_markdown_images as fields in the BaseChunkerOptions ([#3436](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3436)) ([`5fadc6d`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/5fadc6d180fbee352c83c0158925b53d5fbd1b18)) * **extra | | `v2.93.0` | 2026-05-05 | High | ### Feature * **vlm:** Upgrade Granite Vision model to 4.1 for table + chart extraction ([#3382](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3382)) ([`24f2d14`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/24f2d148d9b904362c80844f554f7ea28a20ba40)) ### Fix * **docx:** Fix OMML equation handling and improve type safety ([#3381](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3381)) ([`e00735d`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/e00735dd59e9103bd7671139e0671b88e2d28 | | `v2.92.0` | 2026-04-29 | High | ### Feature * Extend the kserve-triton OCR model to have multi-lingual support ([#3368](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3368)) ([`8b67fae`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/8b67fae6873a10b7af3ac061b766e4caaa6fe137)) * **docx:** Add checkbox parsing support ([#3349](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3349)) ([`c455a65`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/c455a65e36f1897543793bc9df37bb633d0ca7ae)) * Introduce modular docling-slim pa | | `v2.91.0` | 2026-04-23 | High | ### Feature * **docx:** Extract VML images with v:imagedata elements ([#3343](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3343)) ([`2ddaa3b`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/2ddaa3be97dbf6d34614ccd5e33f510ba6102033)) ### Fix * Strengthen input validation for METS‑GBS processing ([#3336](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3336)) ([`c1dbac2`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/c1dbac22c7a0d55f22d82af5262c9e60df915083)) * EasyOCR model | | `2.90.0` | 2026-04-21 | Low | Imported from PyPI (2.90.0) | | `v2.90.0` | 2026-04-17 | High | ### Feature * Implement GraniteVisionTableStructureModel for VLM-based table extraction ([#3323](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3323)) ([`1569e42`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/1569e42f8484f7abda8b8fb615e9c67d47e83855)) ### Fix * **latex:** Fully unwrap deeply nested formatting macros ([#3249](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3249)) ([`101233e`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/101233ebe211ece703605a16a23225da836e3c46)) | | `v2.89.0` | 2026-04-16 | High | ### Feature * Explicit TikZ environment handling in LaTeX backend ([#3187](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3187)) ([`a15c16e`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/a15c16e19fc9531e68916d15a1976ba76414c545)) ### Fix * **ocr:** Align RapidOCR english assets with 3.8 mobile models ([#3291](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3291)) ([`251c8b2`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/251c8b217a72453205242993e03ca8004cb2877e)) * **docx:** Iso | ## Citation - 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