docling_rs

Rust SDK for Docling Serve. Convert PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, images, and more into Markdown, JSON, HTML, or plain text.

Features

• Async-first HTTP client — Built on reqwest with full async/await support
• Synchronous API — Blocking wrapper available via feature flag for simple scripts
• URL & file conversion — Convert from HTTP URLs or upload local files via multipart
• Sync & async job handling — Block until done, or submit and poll for large documents
• Fully typed — All enums and models matching OpenAPI 3.1 spec (v1.12.0)
• API key authentication — Bearer token support for secured endpoints
• Structured errors — Typed errors for network, API, JSON, I/O, task failures, timeouts
• Zero unsafe code

Installation

[dependencies]

docling_rs = "0.1"

All dependencies (including tokio for the internal runtime) are included automatically.

Feature Flags

Using without blocking API

For smaller binary size when you only need async:

[dependencies]

docling_rs = { version = "0.1", default-features = false }

Quick Start

Blocking API (Simplest)

No async boilerplate needed. Works in any Rust program:

use docling_rs::blocking::DoclingClient;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DoclingClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:5001");
    
    // Convert a URL
    let result = client
        .convert_source("https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01062", None)?;
    
    if let Some(md) = &result.document.md_content {
        println!("{}", md);
    }
    Ok(())
}

Async API

For integration with async Rust code. Requires tokio for the async runtime:

[dependencies]

docling_rs = "0.1"

tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }

use docling_rs::DoclingClient;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DoclingClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:5001");
    
    // Convert a URL
    let result = client
        .convert_source("https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01062", None)
        .await?;
    
    if let Some(md) = &result.document.md_content {
        println!("{}", md);
    }
    Ok(())
}

Examples

# Run Docling Serve

docling-serve run --port 5001


# Run examples

cargo run --example health

cargo run --example convert_url

cargo run --example convert_url_async

cargo run --example convert_file

cargo run --example convert_file_async

cargo run --example convert_url_blocking  # No tokio needed

API Overview

Blocking API

use docling_rs::blocking::DoclingClient;

let client = DoclingClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:5001");

// Health & version
client.health()?;
client.version()?;

// Basic conversion (options is owned: Option<ConvertDocumentsRequestOptions>)
let result = client.convert_source(url, options)?;

// File upload (options is borrowed: Option<&ConvertDocumentsRequestOptions>)
let result = client.convert_file(paths, options.as_ref(), target)?;

// Async with polling (blocking wrapper)
let task = client.convert_source_async(url, options)?;
let status = client.poll_task_status(&task.task_id, None)?;
let result = client.get_task_result(&task.task_id)?;

// Convenience methods
let result = client.wait_for_conversion(url, options, timeout, poll_interval)?;
let result = client.wait_for_file_conversion(paths, options.as_ref(), target, timeout, poll_interval)?;

Async API

use docling_rs::DoclingClient;

let client = DoclingClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:5001");

// Health & version
client.health().await?;
client.version().await?;

// Basic conversion (options is owned: Option<ConvertDocumentsRequestOptions>)
let result = client.convert_source(url, options).await?;

// File upload (options is borrowed: Option<&ConvertDocumentsRequestOptions>)
let result = client.convert_file(paths, options.as_ref(), target).await?;

// Async with polling
let task = client.convert_source_async(url, options).await?;
let status = client.poll_task_status(&task.task_id, None).await?;
let result = client.get_task_result(&task.task_id).await?;

// Convenience methods
let result = client.wait_for_conversion(url, options, timeout, poll_interval).await?;
let result = client.wait_for_file_conversion(paths, options.as_ref(), target, timeout, poll_interval).await?;

Error Handling

Both APIs return the same DoclingError variants:

use docling_rs::blocking::DoclingClient;
use docling_rs::DoclingError;

let client = DoclingClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:5001");

match client.convert_source("https://example.com/doc.pdf", None) {
    Ok(result) => println!("Success: {}", result.status),
    Err(DoclingError::Http(e)) => eprintln!("Network error: {}", e),
    Err(DoclingError::Api { status_code, body }) => {
        eprintln!("API error {}: {}", status_code, body);
    }
    Err(DoclingError::TaskFailed { task_id, status }) => {
        eprintln!("Task {} failed: {}", task_id, status);
    }
    Err(DoclingError::Timeout { task_id, elapsed_secs }) => {
        eprintln!("Task {} timed out after {:.0}s", task_id, elapsed_secs);
    }
    _ => eprintln!("Other error"),
}

License

MIT