Getting Started with Docling: PDF to Structured Data

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Docling is an open-source tool that converts PDFs to structured data formats like Markdown, HTML, JSON, or plain text, handling layout analysis, table extraction, and OCR.

intermediate Published 26 Mar 2026
Action Steps
  1. Install Docling using the provided installation guide
  2. Use the command-line interface to convert PDFs to desired output formats
  3. Experiment with different output formats like Markdown, HTML, JSON, or plain text
  4. Integrate Docling into workflows to automate PDF data extraction
Who Needs to Know This

Data scientists and engineers on a team can benefit from this tool to extract insights from PDF documents, and developers can use it to integrate PDF data into their applications.

Key Insight

💡 Docling simplifies the process of extracting data from PDFs by handling layout analysis, table extraction, and OCR, making it easier to integrate PDF data into applications and workflows.

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💡 Convert PDFs to structured data with Docling, an open-source tool from IBM Research!
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