docling/docs/index.md

# Docling

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Docling parses documents and exports them to the desired format with ease and speed.

## Features

* 🗂️ Reads popular document formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, Images, HTML, AsciiDoc, Markdown) and exports to Markdown and JSON
* 📑 Advanced PDF document understanding incl. page layout, reading order & table structures
* 🧩 Unified, expressive [DoclingDocument](./concepts/docling_document.md) representation format
* 📝 Metadata extraction, including title, authors, references & language
* 🤖 Seamless LlamaIndex 🦙 & LangChain 🦜🔗 integration for powerful RAG / QA applications
* 🔍 OCR support for scanned PDFs
* 💻 Simple and convenient CLI