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Reads document files and uses Docling to populate LlamaIndex `Document` objects — either serializing Docling's data model (losslessly, e.g. as JSON) or exporting to a simplified format (lossily, e.g. as Markdown).
Reads LlamaIndex `Document` objects populated in Docling's format by Docling Reader and, using its knowledge of the Docling format, parses them to LlamaIndex `Node` objects for downstream usage in LlamaIndex applications, e.g. as chunks for embedding.