Getting Started with Docling: PDF to Structured Data
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Docling is an open-source document conversion tool from IBM Research. It takes PDFs and converts them into clean, structured output like Markdown, HTML, JSON, or plain text. It handles layout analysis, table extraction, image embedding, OCR, and even a vision-based pipeline for complex documents. This guide walks through installation, the core conversion options, and the advanced flags worth knowing. Installation Use a virtual environment: python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin