Discussion - Topic: Docling

This week's topic: Docling Discussion resources to help guide the conversation will be posted below a few days before the meetup. Zoom link will be added about 5 min before the event starts. As described in Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. #34. Docling is an open-source Python and TypeScript library for converting unstructured documents into clean, machine-readable outputs. Using a computer vision–based approach to layout and semantic understanding, it processes complex inputs — including PDFs and scanned documents — into structured formats such as JSON and Markdown. That makes it a strong fit for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and for producing structured outputs from LLMs, in contrast to vision-first retrieval…