What problem does it solve?
In many workflows, teams need offline, privacy-conscious document processing that does not rely on external APIs to convert formats, extract content, or transcribe audio. Docling provides a local CLI to handle these tasks end-to-end.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Local document conversion: convert PDFs, Word documents, HTML, and more to Markdown, JSON, HTML, or plain text using the docling CLI.
- OCR and automated text extraction: enable OCR for images and scanned PDFs to recover readable text.
- Image handling and artifacts: export embedded images as referenced artifacts or embed them directly in outputs.
- Audio transcription: transcribe audio files into text using built-in or pluggable ASR models.
- Use cases include archiving research papers, digitizing contracts, and extracting tables or metadata for data pipelines.
Quick Start
Run docling on a sample file to convert it to Markdown with default settings.