docling-project/community

Docling Community is a hub for contributors to an open source document processing project hosted within the LF AI & Data Foundation.

The Docling project addresses the challenge of parsing and understanding diverse document formats, particularly complex PDFs, while integrating with generative AI systems. The community repository serves as the central point for onboarding contributors, documenting governance structures, and coordinating development direction through a technical steering committee that maintains the project roadmap.

Contributors can engage at multiple levels: answering questions in discussion forums, improving documentation, writing blog posts, conducting testing, or submitting code changes. The project provides contribution guidelines and developer documentation to help newcomers understand the process. Issues marked with the Help Wanted label in the primary repository offer structured entry points for those seeking specific tasks to work on.

The project maintains formal governance through a steering committee that meets regularly and publishes meeting notes, with the governance structure documented explicitly. Development is driven by an active community of contributors working alongside the original team from IBM Research Europe, with the roadmap regularly updated to reflect priorities set by the technical steering committee.