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docling-project/docling A tool that works on your files
Convert a text-based PDF to Markdown and keep its tables
- Open source
- Runs on your own computer
- Windows, Mac or Linux
- Tested 4 Nov 2026
You bring
- a PDF with selectable text, optionally including tables
You get
- the PDF's text and tables in Markdown
What can it reach?
Only the files you give it, with no network.
How was it tested?
Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.
This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.
Project, licence and recipe files
docling-project/docling on GitHub
Licence. Docling MIT; Heron Apache-2.0; Docling Models lists CDLA-Permissive-2.0 and Apache-2.0. The image includes the model cards and licence notices.
Recipe revision dd9523daef94, from c622bcb97c6e.
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