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Docling
Open-source library and CLI (MIT) that converts PDFs and office files to Markdown or JSON, with optional VLM pipelines.
- Docling Project (LF AI & Data)
- Local only
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- –Documents & OCRParsers & APIs · Local · no rated model available here yet
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Facts
- Vendor
- Docling Project (LF AI & Data)
- Approach
- Parsers & APIs
- Where it runs
- Runs only on your own hardware
- Interface
- Command line, API
- Skill level
- Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Free open-source software (MIT); model licenses apply per model.
- Source code
- Open source (MIT)
- GitHub stars
- 69.1k (18 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- –granite-docling-258MIBM · open weights