---
name: docling
slug: docling
score: 68
rubric: 1.0
provenance: verified-org
publisher: Docling project (LF AI & Data)
license: MIT
capability: read-write
canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling
---

# 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

### Claude Code

```bash
pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claude
```

### Cursor

```bash
pip install docling && uvx library-skills
```

### Codex CLI

```bash
pip install docling && uvx library-skills
```

## Best 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

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.

## Compatibility

claude-code, cursor, codex

## Metadata

- Categories: document-processing, data-analytics
- Surfaces: claude-code
- Tags: PDF, OCR, RAG
- Setup time: 5 min
- Complexity: Medium
- Last update: 2026-08-14
- Verified: —
- Source: https://github.com/docling-project/docling
- Docs: https://docling-project.github.io/docling/usage/agent_skills/

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_Indexed by Top Agent Skills. Score breakdown: https://top-agent-skills.com/about/methodology_