Setup & Installation
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Version History
Added required bins metadata, security warnings for remote services and plugins, and best practices for output directory
What This Skill Does
Docling is a CLI tool that extracts and parses content from web pages, PDFs, and office documents into clean, structured text. It supports OCR on scanned documents and images using GPU acceleration via CUDA.
Unlike basic HTTP fetchers, docling handles PDFs, scanned images, and complex document formats that return raw binary or malformed HTML.
When to use it
- Extracting readable text from a research paper PDF
- Converting a web article to markdown for offline processing
- Running OCR on a scanned invoice or image
- Parsing a PPTX slide deck into plain text
- Pulling structured content from a DOCX report
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: extract the content from this PDF: /tmp/report.pdf
- 1Run `docling /tmp/report.pdf --ocr --device auto --output /tmp/docling_out`
- 2Wait for docling to process the document with OCR
- 3Read the output markdown file from /tmp/docling_out
- 4Return the parsed text content to the user
- 5Clean up /tmp/docling_out
Clean, structured markdown text extracted from the PDF
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.