# Docling
[](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869)
[](https://pypi.org/project/docling/)

[](https://python-poetry.org/)
[](https://github.com/psf/black)
[](https://pycqa.github.io/isort/)
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Docling parses documents and exports them to the desired format with ease and speed.
## Features
* 🗂️ Reads popular document formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, Images, HTML, AsciiDoc, Markdown) and exports to Markdown and JSON
* 📑 Advanced PDF document understanding incl. page layout, reading order & table structures
* 🧩 Unified, expressive [DoclingDocument](./concepts/docling_document.md) representation format
* 📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
* 🤖 Seamless LlamaIndex 🦙 & LangChain 🦜🔗 integration for powerful RAG / QA applications
* 🔍 OCR support for scanned PDFs
* 💻 Simple and convenient CLI