docling
One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself.
Install
$ pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claudeThe skill ships inside the Python package, so library-skills symlinks it into .claude/skills and it updates with the package. Requires Python 3.10+.
$ pip install docling && uvx library-skills$ pip install docling && uvx library-skillsBest for
Reading or converting documents the agent cannot open directly, at 65K stars and MIT: scanned PDFs, Office formats, tables, and chunking a corpus for retrieval.
Not ideal for
Producing polished Office files. Docling is a reader and converter — for generating a styled DOCX, XLSX or PPTX, the Anthropic document skills are the better fit.
About this skill
Use Docling to understand the content of documents in any supported format — PDF (born-digital or scanned), DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, CSV, images, audio, and XML — by converting them into a unified DoclingDocument (Markdown or structured JSON). Use whenever you need to read, parse, convert, extract, or chunk a document you cannot read directly: "what's in this PDF", "convert this to markdown", "extract the tables", "chunk this for RAG", "read this scanned document", "parse this DOCX/PPTX". Covers the docling CLI, the Python SDK, the remote Service Client, and the docling-slim install extras.
Score breakdown
Score breakdown
rubric 1.0Composite 0–100 score derived from 9 verifiable signals. See the rubric →
Related skills
Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them.
Word documents end-to-end. Create, edit, comment, track-change.
Excel spreadsheets with real formulas, charts, and formatting — not flat CSV exports.
