Building docling-server: a one-command document API for our AI pipeline

📰 Dev.to · Vineeth N Krishnan

Learn how to build a one-command document API using Docker Compose, FastAPI, Celery, and nginx to simplify AI pipeline workflows

intermediate Published 22 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Wrap docling into a Docker Compose setup to containerize the application
  2. Use FastAPI to create a RESTful API for document processing
  3. Configure Celery for asynchronous task handling and queue management
  4. Set up nginx as a reverse proxy for secure and scalable API access
  5. Test the docling-server API with sample documents to ensure clean markdown output
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and AI developers can benefit from this setup to streamline document processing and focus on core AI tasks

Key Insight

💡 Containerizing document processing with Docker Compose and using a RESTful API can significantly simplify AI pipeline workflows

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Key Takeaways

Learn how to build a one-command document API using Docker Compose, FastAPI, Celery, and nginx to simplify AI pipeline workflows

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Why I wrapped docling into a full Docker Compose setup with FastAPI, Celery, and nginx — so our AI project could stop worrying about messy PDFs, Word files, and scanned junk, and just get clean markdown back.
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