IBM is releasing Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact and cutting-edge open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while preserving layout, tables, equations, and more. It's designed for accurate and efficient document conversion and excels beyond simple text extraction.
Docling is a tool that parses documents and exports them to desired formats like Markdown and JSON. It supports various document formats including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, Images, HTML, AsciiDoc, and Markdown.