diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de13482eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:experimental
+
+FROM centos:centos7.9.2009
+
+ARG PIP_VERSION
+ARG UNSTRUCTURED
+
+RUN yum -y update && \
+  yum -y install poppler-utils xz-devel which
+
+# Note(austin) Get a recent tesseract from this repo
+# See https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Installation.html
+# PDF and images:
+RUN yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexander_Pozdnyakov/CentOS_7/ && \
+  rpm --import https://build.opensuse.org/projects/home:Alexander_Pozdnyakov/public_key && \
+  yum -y update && \
+  yum -y install tesseract
+
+# Note(yuming): Install gcc & g++ ≥ 5.4 for Detectron2 requirement
+RUN yum -y update
+RUN yum -y install centos-release-scl
+RUN yum -y install devtoolset-7-gcc*
+SHELL [ "/usr/bin/scl", "enable", "devtoolset-7"]
+
+RUN yum -y update && \
+  # MS Office docs:
+  yum -y install libreoffice && \
+  yum -y install openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel make git sqlite-devel && \
+  curl -O https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.15/Python-3.8.15.tgz && tar -xzf Python-3.8.15.tgz && \
+  cd Python-3.8.15/ && ./configure --enable-optimizations && make altinstall && \
+  cd .. && rm -rf Python-3.8.15* && \
+  ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.8 /usr/local/bin/python3
+
+# create a home directory
+ENV HOME /home/
+
+WORKDIR ${HOME}
+RUN mkdir ${HOME}/.ssh && chmod go-rwx ${HOME}/.ssh \
+  &&  ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com >> /home/.ssh/known_hosts
+
+ENV PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:${HOME}"
+ENV PATH="/home/usr/.local/bin:${PATH}"
+
+COPY example-docs example-docs
+
+COPY requirements/base.txt requirements-base.txt
+COPY requirements/huggingface.txt requirements-huggingface.txt
+COPY requirements/dev.txt requirements-dev.txt
+# PDFs and images
+COPY requirements/local-inference.txt requirements-local-inference.txt
+
+
+RUN python3.8 -m pip install pip==${PIP_VERSION} \
+  && pip install --no-cache -r requirements-base.txt \
+  && pip install --no-cache -r requirements-huggingface.txt \
+  && pip install --no-cache -r requirements-dev.txt \
+  # PDFs and images
+  && pip install --no-cache -r requirements-local-inference.txt \
+  # PDFs
+  && pip install --no-cache "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git@v0.6#egg=detectron2"
+
+COPY unstructured unstructured
+
+CMD ["/bin/bash"]
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b1a71e5be..03caed394 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -178,3 +178,18 @@ version-sync:
 .PHONY: check-coverage
 check-coverage:
 	coverage report --fail-under=95
+
+##########
+# Docker #
+##########
+
+# Docker targets are provided for convenience only and are not required in a standard development environment
+
+
+.PHONY: docker-build
+docker-build:
+	PIP_VERSION=${PIP_VERSION} ./scripts/docker-build.sh
+
+.PHONY: docker-start-bash
+docker-start-bash:
+	docker run --platform linux/amd64 -ti --rm unstructured-dev:latest
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 198544d3b..9ad4c19b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,6 +81,32 @@ elements = partition("example-docs/layout-parser-paper.pdf")
 print("\n\n".join([str(el) for el in elements]))
 ```
 
+## :dizzy: Instructions for using the docker image
+
+The following instructions are intended to help you get up and running using docker to interact with `unstructured`.
+
+If you only plan on parsing one type of data you can speed up building the image by commenting out some
+of the packages/requirements necessary for other data types. See Dockerfile to know which lines are necessary
+for your use case.
+
+See [here](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) if you don't already have docker installed on your machine.
+
+```bash
+make docker-build
+
+# this will drop you into a bash shell where the docker image is running
+make docker-start-bash
+
+# this will drop you into a python console so you can run the below partition functions
+python3
+
+>>> from unstructured.partition.pdf import partition_pdf
+>>> elements = partition_pdf(filename="example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf")
+
+>>> from unstructured.partition.text import partition_text
+>>> elements = partition_text(filename="example-docs/fake-text.txt")
+```
+
 
 ## :coffee: Installation Instructions for Local Development
 
diff --git a/scripts/docker-build.sh b/scripts/docker-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f01ce8b54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/docker-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker buildx build --load --platform=linux/amd64 -f Dockerfile \
+  --build-arg PIP_VERSION="$PIP_VERSION" \
+  --progress plain \
+  -t unstructured-dev:latest .