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🐤 Docling Document Extraction

🐤 Docling Document Extraction​

This documentation provides a step-by-step guide to integrating Docling with MANTA. Docling is a document processing library designed to transform a wide range of file formats—including PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, HTML, and images—into structured data such as JSON or Markdown. With built-in support for layout detection, table parsing, and language-aware processing, Docling streamlines document preparation for AI applications like search, summarization, and retrieval-augmented generation, all through a unified and extensible interface.

Prerequisites​

  • MANTA instance
  • Docker installed on your system
  • Docker network set up for MANTA

Integration Steps​

Step 1: Run the Docker Command for Docling-Serve​

docker run -p 5001:5001 -e DOCLING_SERVE_ENABLE_UI=true quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve

Step 2: Configure MANTA to use Docling​

  • Log in to your MANTA instance.
  • Navigate to the Admin Panel settings menu.
  • Click on Settings.
  • Click on the Documents tab.
  • Change the Default content extraction engine dropdown to Docling.
  • Update the context extraction engine URL to http://host.docker.internal:5001.
  • Save the changes.

Verifying Docling in Docker

To verify that Docling is working correctly in a Docker environment, you can follow these steps:

1. Start the Docling Docker Container​

First, ensure that the Docling Docker container is running. You can start it using the following command:

docker run -p 5001:5001 -e DOCLING_SERVE_ENABLE_UI=true quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve

This command starts the Docling container and maps port 5001 from the container to port 5001 on your local machine.

2. Verify the Server is Running​

  • Go to http://127.0.0.1:5001/ui/
  • The URL should lead to a UI to use Docling

3. Verify the Integration​

  • You can try uploading some files via the UI and it should return output in MD format or your desired format

Conclusion​

Integrating Docling with MANTA is a simple and effective way to enhance document processing and content extraction capabilities. By following the steps in this guide, you can set up Docling as the default extraction engine and verify it’s working smoothly in a Docker environment. Once configured, Docling enables powerful, format-agnostic document parsing to support more advanced AI features in MANTA.