doclinglisted

# Docling — Local Document → Markdown Converter CLI tool that uses AI models (layout detection, OCR, table extraction) to convert documents into clean, structured Markdown. ## Supported Formats **Office**: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX **Images**: PNG, JPG, TIFF (with OCR) **Web**: HTML, Markdown **Data**: CSV **Academic**: LaTeX, XML (USPTO, JATS, METS) **Media**: Audio/video transcripts (VTT) **Other**: JSON (docling format), ASCIIDoc ## When to Use | Scenario | Tool | |----------|------| | 📄 **PDF / DOCX / PPTX / XLSX on disk** | ✅ **docling** | | 🖼️ Images with text (OCR) | ✅ **docling** | | 📊 CSV / Markdown / HTML on disk | ✅ **docling** | | 🎤 Audio/video transcripts | ✅ **docling** | | 🌐 Public web page → markdown | ❌ Use `WebFetch` (no install needed) | | 🔒 Web page requiring login (WeChat, Zhihu, etc.) | ❌ Use `kimi-webbridge` or Chrome extension | | 🔍 Search for web pages | ❌ Use `WebSearch` | **Scope boundary**: docling handles **files on disk**. Web content is out of scope — use the right tool for the job. ## Prerequisites ### Install docling ```bash # China users (recommended) — uses Tsinghua mirror, ~10x faster than default pip install docling -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple # International users pip install docling ``` Verify: ```bash docling --version ``` ### ⚠️ First-time PDF usage The first time you convert a PDF, docling downloads ~500MB of AI models (layout + table structure) to `~/.cache/huggingface/`. Subsequent runs r