
Parse Documents Including Images, Tables, Equations, Charts, and Code.
Author(s): Ahmed Boulahia
Originally published on Towards AI.
Enhance Your RAG Pipeline by Using SmolDocling to Parse Complex Documents (Tables, Equations, Charts & Code) into Your Vector DB
Have you ever tried to copy-paste text from a PDF research paper and ended up with gibberish, missing figures, or malformed equations? Complex documents are often packed with non-text elements like images, graphs, tables and math , that simple text-based AI can’t handle.
SmolDocling aims to change that, it’s a multimodal AI model designed to process a whole page image and output a single, structured representation of everything on it.
In this post, we’ll see why combining vision and language is essential for modern document AI, and how SmolDocling’s features set let it convert complex docs end-to-end.
Traditional document AI often treated pages as “just text”. One common pattern was: run an OCR engine to get all the words (and their positions), then feed that into a text model.
Systems like LayoutLM… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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