docling_core/document.rs
1//! The unified document representation.
2
3use crate::markdown::{to_markdown, to_markdown_images};
4use crate::ImageMode;
5
6/// The unified, format-agnostic document produced by every backend.
7///
8/// This is the heart of docling: backends parse their source format into a
9/// `DoclingDocument`, and serializers turn it back into Markdown, HTML, JSON,
10/// etc. Phase 0 uses a flat sequence of [`Node`]s; the production schema will
11/// match docling-core's body-tree-with-references layout.
12#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
13pub struct DoclingDocument {
14 /// Logical document name (usually the input file stem).
15 pub name: String,
16 /// Top-level content, in reading order.
17 pub nodes: Vec<Node>,
18 /// Default Markdown export mode for [`Self::export_to_markdown`]. `false`
19 /// (the default) reproduces docling's legacy output byte-for-byte; `true`
20 /// emits cleaner, more conformant Markdown. Set by `DocumentConverter`.
21 pub strict_markdown: bool,
22 /// Emit tables in the compact `| a | b |` / `| - | - |` form rather than
23 /// docling-core's width-padded GitHub serializer. The PDF backend sets this
24 /// (its committed groundtruth corpus predates the padded serializer); DOCX/HTML
25 /// leave it `false` to match current published docling.
26 pub compact_tables: bool,
27 /// Hyperlinks recovered from the source, as `(anchor_text, href)` pairs in
28 /// document order. docling's standard pipeline drops PDF link annotations, so
29 /// these are rendered as Markdown `[anchor](href)` **only in strict mode**
30 /// (legacy/docling output is left byte-for-byte unchanged). The PDF backend
31 /// populates this from pdfium link annotations; other backends leave it empty.
32 pub links: Vec<(String, String)>,
33}
34
35/// A single piece of document content.
36#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
37pub enum Node {
38 /// A heading. `level` is 1-6.
39 Heading { level: u8, text: String },
40 /// A run of body text.
41 Paragraph { text: String },
42 /// A form checkbox (docling's `checkbox_selected`/`checkbox_unselected`): its
43 /// clean label `text` with the checked state. DocLang emits a `<checkbox>`
44 /// element head; Markdown/JSON render the task-list form (`- [x] `/`- [ ] `).
45 CheckboxItem { checked: bool, text: String },
46 /// A single list item at the given nesting `level` (0 = top). For ordered
47 /// items, `number` is the display number (honoring the list's `start`); it
48 /// is unused for unordered items. `first_in_list` marks the first item of a
49 /// list so the serializer can blank-line-separate adjacent sibling lists.
50 ///
51 /// `marker` is the DocLang enumeration marker (`"1."`, `"1.1."`, …) when the
52 /// backend provides one — HTML and DOCX set it for enumerated items, so
53 /// DocLang emits `<ldiv><marker>…</marker></ldiv>`; Markdown and the other
54 /// declarative backends leave it `None`, giving a bare `<ldiv/>` (matching
55 /// docling, whose Markdown backend passes no marker).
56 ListItem {
57 ordered: bool,
58 number: u64,
59 first_in_list: bool,
60 text: String,
61 level: u8,
62 marker: Option<String>,
63 /// Optional layout provenance (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511): the
64 /// four DocLang `<location>` values emitted inside the `<list>` right
65 /// after the item's `<ldiv>`. Set only by backends with real geometry
66 /// (e.g. PPTX shapes); `None` for the declarative backends. Kept on the
67 /// item itself (rather than a [`Node::Located`] wrapper) so consecutive
68 /// items still group into one `<list>`.
69 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
70 /// DocLang-only override for items whose DocLang form diverges from their
71 /// flat Markdown `text`. Markdown/JSON always render the fields above; the
72 /// DocLang serializer, when this is `Some`, takes the list kind, marker,
73 /// and content from here instead. Used for docx multilevel numbering
74 /// (Markdown shows `- 1.1. x`, DocLang an ordered `<marker>1.1.</marker>`
75 /// with clean text) and inline equations/formatting in list items.
76 dclx: Option<ListItemDclx>,
77 /// The item's hyperlink target, when its content is a link — docling's
78 /// HTML backend emits it as an `<href uri=…/>` in the item head, and the
79 /// anchor's Markdown link markup is stripped from the rendered content.
80 /// `None` for a plain item; ignored by Markdown/JSON.
81 href: Option<String>,
82 /// Non-body content layer (docling's HTML site chrome before the first
83 /// heading → `furniture`). DocLang emits a `<layer value=…/>` in the item
84 /// head; Markdown/JSON drop a non-body item entirely.
85 layer: Option<ContentLayer>,
86 },
87 /// A fenced code block.
88 Code {
89 language: Option<String>,
90 text: String,
91 },
92 /// A table. The first row is treated as the header.
93 Table(Table),
94 /// A picture/figure, with an optional caption and (when a backend extracts
95 /// it) the embedded image itself.
96 Picture {
97 caption: Option<String>,
98 image: Option<PictureImage>,
99 },
100 /// A chart (docling's `PictureItem` classified as a chart, carrying a
101 /// `PictureTabularChartData` annotation). Markdown and JSON render it exactly
102 /// like a [`Node::Picture`] placeholder (an `<!-- image -->` / `picture`
103 /// item); the DocLang serializer emits `<picture class="chart">` with a
104 /// `<label value="{kind}"/>` and the data `table` as a `<tabular>`.
105 Chart {
106 /// docling's classification label, e.g. `bar_chart`, `line_chart`.
107 kind: String,
108 /// The chart's data grid (row 0 is the header band).
109 table: Table,
110 },
111 /// A logical grouping of child nodes (e.g. a list, a section).
112 Group { label: String, children: Vec<Node> },
113 /// A form key-value region (docling's `field_region`): a set of form fields,
114 /// each pairing an optional marker, key, and value. Backends detect these
115 /// from form structure (e.g. HTML's `keyN` / `keyN_valueM` / `keyN_marker`
116 /// `id`-convention); the serializers render each item's parts as separate
117 /// labelled texts (`marker` / `field_key` / `field_value`).
118 FieldRegion { items: Vec<FieldItem> },
119 /// Rich inline content — docling's `InlineGroup`: a run of styled text
120 /// segments that a backend captured with formatting (`<bold>`, `<italic>`,
121 /// `<underline>`, `<strikethrough>`, sub/superscript, inline `<code>`) the
122 /// flat Markdown text cannot represent. Markdown/JSON render this exactly
123 /// like `Paragraph { text: md_text }` (so their output is unchanged); the
124 /// DocLang serializer uses the structured `runs`. `unwrapped` is set when the
125 /// group's docling parent is a heading/text (no enclosing `<text>` wrapper).
126 InlineGroup {
127 unwrapped: bool,
128 runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
129 md_text: String,
130 },
131 /// A node in a non-body content layer — `furniture` (page headers/footers,
132 /// the HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome) or `notes` (docx comments).
133 /// Markdown and JSON omit these layers by default; DocLang renders the wrapped
134 /// node with a `<layer value="{layer}"/>` head.
135 Furniture {
136 layer: ContentLayer,
137 inner: Box<Node>,
138 },
139 /// A node carrying layout provenance — the four DocLang `<location>` values
140 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511) docling attaches to elements from
141 /// backends with real geometry (e.g. the slide shapes in PPTX). Markdown and
142 /// JSON render the wrapped node unchanged; DocLang emits the `<location>`
143 /// tokens as the element's first children.
144 Located {
145 location: [u16; 4],
146 inner: Box<Node>,
147 },
148 /// A PDF page header or footer (docling's `page_header`/`page_footer`
149 /// furniture): DocLang emits `<page_header>`/`<page_footer>` with a
150 /// `<layer value="furniture"/>` head, the four `<location>` tokens, then the
151 /// text. Markdown and JSON omit it like other furniture.
152 PageFurniture {
153 footer: bool,
154 location: [u16; 4],
155 text: String,
156 },
157 /// A page boundary — docling's implicit page break between pages. The PPTX
158 /// backend emits one between consecutive slides. DocLang renders it as
159 /// `<page_break/>`; Markdown and JSON omit it (matching docling's default
160 /// exports, which carry page breaks only in the document model).
161 PageBreak,
162 /// A node docling keeps in the document model (and DocLang) but leaves out
163 /// of the Markdown and JSON exports — e.g. an ODF *presentation*'s pictures
164 /// and charts, which appear in the `.dclx` body but not in its `.md`/`.json`.
165 /// DocLang renders the wrapped node in place; Markdown and JSON skip it.
166 DoclangOnly(Box<Node>),
167 /// A verbatim plain-text dump — docling's plain-text backend emits the whole
168 /// file as a single text item (used for legacy USPTO APS `.txt` grants, which
169 /// docling routes to plain text rather than its APS parser). The stored string
170 /// is the file body, one record per line. Markdown/JSON render it as one text
171 /// block; the DocLang serializer reproduces minidom's per-line layout, CDATA-
172 /// escaping only the lines that need it (see `emit_text_dump`).
173 TextDump(String),
174}
175
176/// Vertical text position of an [`InlineRun`] — docling's `Script`.
177#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
178pub enum Script {
179 #[default]
180 Baseline,
181 Sub,
182 Super,
183}
184
185/// One styled segment of a [`Node::InlineGroup`] — the docling.rs analogue of a
186/// `TextItem` inside an `InlineGroup`, carrying the ancestor formatting docling
187/// tracks. `text` is already whitespace-normalized/trimmed (one segment per
188/// source text node). A hyperlink is intentionally not stored: DocLang drops the
189/// target inside inline scope, keeping only the anchor text.
190#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
191pub struct InlineRun {
192 pub text: String,
193 pub bold: bool,
194 pub italic: bool,
195 pub underline: bool,
196 pub strike: bool,
197 pub script: Script,
198 pub code: bool,
199 /// An inline equation (`text` holds LaTeX): DocLang renders `<formula>…`,
200 /// Markdown/JSON keep the `$…$` already baked into the group's `md_text`.
201 pub formula: bool,
202}
203
204/// A DocLang content layer other than the default `body` (see [`Node::Furniture`]).
205#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
206pub enum ContentLayer {
207 /// Page headers/footers, HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome.
208 Furniture,
209 /// Editorial notes (docx reviewer comments).
210 Notes,
211}
212
213impl ContentLayer {
214 /// The `<layer value="…"/>` token value.
215 pub fn value(self) -> &'static str {
216 match self {
217 ContentLayer::Furniture => "furniture",
218 ContentLayer::Notes => "notes",
219 }
220 }
221}
222
223/// DocLang-only content for a [`Node::ListItem`] whose DocLang form differs from
224/// its flat Markdown `text` (see [`Node::ListItem::dclx`]). `ordered` picks the
225/// enclosing `<list>` kind, `marker` the `<ldiv><marker>`; content is `runs`
226/// (structured equations/formatting) when non-empty, else `text` re-parsed for
227/// inline markers.
228#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
229pub struct ListItemDclx {
230 pub ordered: bool,
231 pub marker: Option<String>,
232 pub text: String,
233 pub runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
234}
235
236impl InlineRun {
237 /// A run with no active formatting (renders as bare inline text).
238 pub fn is_plain(&self) -> bool {
239 !self.bold
240 && !self.italic
241 && !self.underline
242 && !self.strike
243 && !self.code
244 && !self.formula
245 && self.script == Script::Baseline
246 }
247}
248
249/// Build the [`Node`] for a paragraph of inline content from its structured
250/// `runs` and Markdown text, applying docling's `InlineGroup` boundary:
251///
252/// * a single plain run (or none) → a plain [`Node::Paragraph`] (which the
253/// serializers render as `<text>…</text>`, and a lone hyperlink via `<href>`);
254/// * a single uniformly-formatted run, or two or more runs → a
255/// [`Node::InlineGroup`]. `unwrapped` (the group's docling parent is a
256/// heading, so no enclosing `<text>`) only applies to multi-run groups.
257///
258/// Markdown/JSON render the group's `md_text`, so their output is identical to
259/// emitting a `Paragraph` — the structured runs are DocLang-only.
260pub fn inline_paragraph_node(md_text: String, runs: Vec<InlineRun>, unwrapped: bool) -> Node {
261 let single_plain = runs.len() <= 1 && runs.first().map_or(true, |r| r.is_plain());
262 if single_plain {
263 Node::Paragraph { text: md_text }
264 } else {
265 Node::InlineGroup {
266 unwrapped: unwrapped && runs.len() >= 2,
267 runs,
268 md_text,
269 }
270 }
271}
272
273/// One entry of a [`Node::FieldRegion`]: a marker/key/value triple, any of which
274/// may be absent. Mirrors docling's `field_item` with its `marker` / `field_key`
275/// / `field_value` child texts.
276#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
277pub struct FieldItem {
278 pub marker: Option<String>,
279 pub key: Option<String>,
280 pub value: Option<String>,
281}
282
283/// An extracted picture's raw encoded bytes plus its mimetype and pixel size —
284/// the docling.rs analogue of docling-core's `ImageRef`.
285#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
286pub struct PictureImage {
287 /// e.g. `image/png`, `image/jpeg`.
288 pub mimetype: String,
289 pub width: u32,
290 pub height: u32,
291 /// The image file bytes, exactly as embedded (PNG/JPEG/…).
292 pub data: Vec<u8>,
293}
294
295impl PictureImage {
296 /// A `data:` URI for the image (`data:<mimetype>;base64,<…>`).
297 pub fn data_uri(&self) -> String {
298 format!(
299 "data:{};base64,{}",
300 self.mimetype,
301 crate::base64::encode(&self.data)
302 )
303 }
304}
305
306/// A simple row-major table. By default `rows[0]` is the header row; a
307/// [`TableStructure`] overlay overrides that and adds column spans.
308#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
309pub struct Table {
310 pub rows: Vec<Vec<String>>,
311 /// Optional layout provenance: the four DocLang `<location>` values
312 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, each already normalized to the 0–511 resolution) emitted
313 /// before the table's cells. Set only by backends with real geometry (e.g.
314 /// the spreadsheet backend, whose cell grid yields a bounding box); left
315 /// `None` by declarative backends, which have no coordinates.
316 pub location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
317 /// Optional OTSL structure overlay for backends that parse real table
318 /// geometry (USPTO CALS): explicit header-row count and horizontal-span
319 /// continuations. `None` → the default (row 0 is the header, no spans).
320 /// `rows` still carries the full text grid (span text replicated) for
321 /// Markdown/JSON; DocLang uses this overlay to emit `<ched/>`/`<lcel/>`.
322 pub structure: Option<TableStructure>,
323 /// Optional per-cell block content, parallel to `rows`. A *rich* cell (an
324 /// ODF cell holding a list, several paragraphs, or a nested table) carries
325 /// its DocLang blocks here; the DocLang serializer emits them after the
326 /// cell token instead of the flat `rows` text. Markdown/JSON ignore this
327 /// and render `rows`, so their output is unchanged. `None` (or an empty
328 /// `Vec` for a given cell) → the flat text is used everywhere.
329 pub cell_blocks: Option<Vec<Vec<Vec<Node>>>>,
330}
331
332/// OTSL structure overlay for a [`Table`], parallel to [`Table::rows`].
333#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
334pub struct TableStructure {
335 /// Per-row: `true` if the row's non-empty cells are column headers
336 /// (emitted as `<ched/>` rather than `<fcel/>`).
337 pub header_row: Vec<bool>,
338 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
339 /// horizontal span from its left neighbour (emitted as `<lcel/>`).
340 pub col_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
341 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
342 /// vertical span from the cell above (emitted as `<ucel/>`). Empty or all
343 /// `false` when the backend has no vertical spans (e.g. USPTO CALS).
344 pub row_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
345}
346
347impl DoclingDocument {
348 /// Create an empty document with the given name.
349 pub fn new(name: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
350 Self {
351 name: name.into(),
352 nodes: Vec::new(),
353 strict_markdown: false,
354 compact_tables: false,
355 links: Vec::new(),
356 }
357 }
358
359 /// Append a node.
360 pub fn push(&mut self, node: Node) {
361 self.nodes.push(node);
362 }
363
364 /// Convenience: append a heading.
365 pub fn add_heading(&mut self, level: u8, text: impl Into<String>) {
366 self.push(Node::Heading {
367 level,
368 text: text.into(),
369 });
370 }
371
372 /// Convenience: append a paragraph.
373 pub fn add_paragraph(&mut self, text: impl Into<String>) {
374 self.push(Node::Paragraph { text: text.into() });
375 }
376
377 /// Serialize the document to Markdown.
378 ///
379 /// The Rust equivalent of docling-core's
380 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_markdown()`. Uses [`Self::strict_markdown`] to
381 /// pick between docling-legacy output (default) and the cleaner, more
382 /// conformant variant.
383 pub fn export_to_markdown(&self) -> String {
384 to_markdown(self, self.strict_markdown)
385 }
386
387 /// Serialize to Markdown, explicitly choosing the mode regardless of
388 /// [`Self::strict_markdown`]. `strict = true` produces cleaner, more
389 /// conformant Markdown (code-fence languages preserved, no inline-run
390 /// spacing artifacts); `strict = false` reproduces docling's legacy output.
391 pub fn export_to_markdown_with(&self, strict: bool) -> String {
392 to_markdown(self, strict)
393 }
394
395 /// Serialize to docling-core's native JSON wire format (`DoclingDocument`
396 /// schema), pretty-printed — the Rust equivalent of
397 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_dict()` / `save_as_json()`. The output loads
398 /// back into Python docling-core and round-trips to the same Markdown.
399 pub fn export_to_json(&self) -> String {
400 serde_json::to_string_pretty(&crate::json::to_json(self))
401 .expect("DoclingDocument JSON is always serializable")
402 }
403
404 /// Serialize to DocLang XML (`<doclang version="0.7">…`), the markup that
405 /// lives inside a `.dclx` archive — the Rust counterpart of docling-core's
406 /// `export_to_doclang()` with default parameters. No trailing newline; the
407 /// archive writer appends exactly one.
408 pub fn export_to_doclang(&self) -> String {
409 crate::doclang::export_to_doclang(&self.nodes)
410 }
411
412 /// Serialize to Markdown with an explicit picture [`ImageMode`] (mirrors
413 /// docling's `image_mode`). Returns the Markdown and, for
414 /// [`ImageMode::Referenced`], the `(relative-path, bytes)` of each image the
415 /// caller should write next to the Markdown file. `artifacts_dir` is the
416 /// directory name used in referenced links.
417 pub fn export_to_markdown_with_images(
418 &self,
419 image_mode: ImageMode,
420 artifacts_dir: &str,
421 ) -> (String, Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>) {
422 to_markdown_images(self, self.strict_markdown, image_mode, artifacts_dir)
423 }
424}