Docling

IBM's document conversion tool for AI pipelines

⭐15,000
Data & ETLFree (open-source)
🌐 Visit Website📦 GitHub

About Docling

Docling by IBM Research converts documents (PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, images) into clean, structured formats optimized for AI. It handles tables, OCR, and complex layouts — designed for RAG pipelines.

Features

✦PDF conversion
✦Table extraction
✦OCR
✦Markdown output
✦LlamaIndex integration

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Excellent PDF parsing
  • +Table extraction
  • +OCR capability
  • +IBM Research quality
  • +LlamaIndex integration

Cons

  • −Heavy dependencies
  • −Can be slow on large docs
  • −Python only
  • −Complex output format

Platforms

LinuxmacOSWindows

Tags

#documents#pdf#conversion#ibm

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