Self-host Docling Studio
v0.7.2PDF analysis studio with configurable extraction pipelines
- Stars
- 268
- Ports
- 3000 (Frontend (nginx)), 8000 (Backend API (FastAPI))
- Requires
- SQLite
ghcr.io/scub-france/docling-studioWhat is Docling Studio?
Docling Studio runs in the browser and lets you analyze PDF files. After uploading a document, you choose which Docling features to enable — optical character recognition, table structure recovery, code and math detection, image classification, and picture extraction. The viewer overlays color-coded boxes on each PDF page and keeps a side panel in sync with the current page. Extracted material can be cut into chunks using several strategies with token limits you control. If you enable the ingestion profile, chunks go to OpenSearch for vector and keyword search, and the entire document hierarchy is mirrored into Neo4j as a graph of sections, paragraphs, tables, pages, and chunks. The interface also handles document listing, deletion, search, and filtering by index status, keeps a history of past analyses, exports to Markdown or HTML, enforces configurable size and rate limits, and offers dark/light themes plus French and English. Under the hood a Vue 3 frontend (nginx on port 3000) talks to a FastAPI backend (port 8000) backed by SQLite. Two container images exist: a large one (~1.9 GB) that runs Docling locally on CPU, and a small one (~270 MB) that calls a separate Docling Serve instance. The codebase is MIT-licensed and sees regular updates.
Should you self-host Docling Studio?
Docling Studio scores 51/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #7 of 12 in Document Processing. It has 268 GitHub stars.
It shipped 9 stable releases in the past year. The latest, v0.6.1, came out on 22 September 2026.
Setup is moderate: expect some configuration beyond a single command. An official Docker image is available. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Python.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is Resume-Matcher (81/100, 28 910 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See Docling Studio vs Resume-Matcher side by side.
Features
- Analysis history
- Configurable Docling extraction pipeline
- Document Management
- Health endpoint
- Live reasoning (RAG)Requires Ollama instance and reasoning packages; opt-in at build time
- Markdown and HTML export
- Multi-language Support
- PDF viewer with bounding box overlay
- Remote Docling Serve mode
- Semantic Chunking
- Upload limits and rate limiting
Docling Studio README
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