Building docling-server: a one-command document API for our AI pipeline This is another one in the series where I walk through my open-source projects. Earlier ones covered backupctl , mcp-pool , and a few smaller tools. Today it is docling-server — the thing I built when our AI project needed a proper way to turn messy documents into clean markdown, and calling docling directly from the app started feeling like a bad idea. If you have not seen docling yet, it is IBM's document processing library. PDF, DOCX, PPTX, scanned images, tables, the whole lot — out comes structured output. Very good at its job. The problem is not docling. The problem is everything around it. The itch So the AI project needed document ingestion. And by "document" I do not just mean PDFs.…