## Get started

Docling is available as an official LlamaIndex extension!

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To get started, check out the [step-by-step guide \[↗\]](https://colab.research.google.com/github/run-llama/llama_index/blob/main/docs/docs/examples/data_connectors/DoclingReaderDemo.ipynb)

## Components

### Docling Reader

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).

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- 📦 [PyPI \[↗\]](https://pypi.org/project/llama-index-readers-docling/)<!--{target="_blank"}-->
- 🦙 [LlamaHub \[↗\]](https://llamahub.ai/l/readers/llama-index-readers-docling)<!--{target="_blank"}-->
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### Docling Node Parser

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.

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- 📦 [PyPI \[↗\]](https://pypi.org/project/llama-index-node-parser-docling/)<!--{target="_blank"}-->
- 🦙 [LlamaHub \[↗\]](https://llamahub.ai/l/node_parser/llama-index-node-parser-docling)<!--{target="_blank"}-->
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