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🚨 BREAKING: IBM launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to data

Introducing Docling. Here's what you need to know: 🧵

1. What is Docling?

Docling is a Python library that simplifies document processing, parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understanding — and providing seamless integrations with the gen AI ecosystem.

2. Document Conversion Architecture

For each document format, the document converter knows which format-specific backend to employ for parsing the document and which pipeline to use for orchestrating the execution, along with any relevant options.

3. PDF Conversion to Markdown

Here is an example of the DocLayNet paper from arXiv, converted into Markdown format by Docling.

4. Core Technology:

Docling includes:

- PDF Backends for parsing
- Layout Analysis Model
- Vision-Based Table Formatter
- OCR for Text

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