A small Microsoft utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files into Markdown that is easy to hand to a language model.
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RAG & vector DBsdocling-project
docling
An IBM library for document parsing: PDF, Office, HTML and images become one unified structure from which Markdown is easy to get. Supports vision models for hard pages.
Who it is for
For Python developers preparing documents for RAG who want to keep the structure.
How to start
- Install:
pip install docling. - Convert a document from the terminal:
docling https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01062. - In code, use
DocumentConverter().convert(source), as the README recommends.
Steps are taken from the README. Check the current version in the repository before running them.
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