---
title: "Docling Document Conversion and Extraction Toolkit"
description: "Docling is an open source document processing toolkit from the Docling project that converts PDFs, Office files, HTML, and other formats into structured output for downstream AI and automation workflows. It is well documented, actively maintained, and published as a Python package with a live docs site."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/docling-project/docling"
author: "docling-project"
category:
  - "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework:
  - "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "docling-project/docling"
  github_stars: 57622
---

# Docling Document Conversion and Extraction Toolkit

Docling is an open source document processing toolkit from the Docling project that converts PDFs, Office files, HTML, and other formats into structured output for downstream AI and automation workflows. It is well documented, actively maintained, and published as a Python package with a live docs site.

## Prerequisites

python, pip, uv, go

## Installation

Choose whichever fits your setup:

1. Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory.
2. Clone the repo and symlink or copy the skill into your agent workspace.
3. Add the repo as a git submodule if you manage shared skills centrally.
4. Install it through your internal provisioning or packaging workflow.
5. Download the folder directly from GitHub and place it in your skills collection.

Install command or upstream instructions:

```
pip install docling
```

## Documentation

- https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-live-brightgreen

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/docling-document-conversion-and-extraction-toolkit/)