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docling.rs

docling.rs is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Documents to Markdown for agents: PDF layout, tables and OCR, Office, HTML, scans. It has 112 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx docling-rs-mcp.

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Install docling.rs

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docling-rs": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docling-rs-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCLING_RS_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DOCLING_RS_CACHE_DIR=your-value --env DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG=your-value --transport stdio docling-rs -- uvx docling-rs-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docling-rs": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docling-rs-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCLING_RS_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "docling-rs": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docling-rs-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCLING_RS_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
DOCLING_RS_CACHE_DIRNoWhere docling-rs-mcp --download-models puts the PDF/image models and the server finds them (default ~/.cache/docling.rs).
DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANGNoOCR language for scans: en (default), ch, or a BCP-47 tag.

About docling.rs

docling.rs converts documents — PDF, Office, HTML, scans, audio — into Markdown, docling JSON and the other shapes an LLM or a RAG pipeline can read. It is a Rust port of IBM's docling: the same output, byte-for-byte, from one static binary. No Python, no PyTorch.

  • autogen
  • docling
  • langchain
  • langgraph
  • markdown
  • pdf
  • pdf-parser
  • pdf-processing
  • rag

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How do I install the docling.rs MCP server?

Add the command uvx docling-rs-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is docling.rs free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is docling.rs actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v2.51.3, published Oct 24, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.