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 "generated": "2026-10-31",
 "id": "docling-project-docling--give-your-agent-document-reading-via-mcp",
 "repo": "docling-project/docling",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/docling-project/docling",
 "repo_slug": "docling-project-docling",
 "title": "Let your AI agent read documents through Docling",
 "page_title": "How to let your AI agent read documents through Docling with Docling",
 "summary": "Connect Docling to an agent through its MCP server or run it as a service with docling-serve.",
 "who": "Someone using Claude Code or another MCP client who wants it to parse PDFs and office files properly.",
 "problem": "Agents often read PDFs as raw text and miss tables, figures and reading order.",
 "outcome": "An agent that can call Docling to parse documents, or a team service that converts files over an API.",
 "steps": [
  "Install Docling with `pip install docling` to test conversions locally first",
  "Follow the MCP server docs to connect Docling to your agent",
  "For a shared service, follow the API server docs for docling-serve",
  "Ask the agent to parse a document and check the structure it returns"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Set up docling-project/docling for my agent using its MCP server, following the Docling MCP docs. Then parse <document> through it and summarise the tables it found.",
 "agents": [
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  "codex",
  "cursor"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The README only links to the MCP and API server docs; setup details live there, not in the README.",
 "category": "Research",
 "tags": [
  "Research"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.10 or higher",
  "macOS, Linux or Windows on x86_64 or arm64",
  "Optional: a GPU for faster VLM pipelines such as GraniteDocling"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": false,
 "score": 0.8,
 "evidence": [],
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