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 /// Conversion-confidence report (#183), populated by the PDF/image ML
34 /// pipeline; `None` for declarative conversions. Deliberately **not**
35 /// part of any document export (docling keeps it on the conversion
36 /// result, outside the document schema) — docling-serve surfaces it in
37 /// the HTTP response instead.
38 pub confidence: Option<crate::confidence::ConfidenceReport>,
39}
40
41/// A single piece of document content.
42#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
43pub enum Node {
44 /// A heading. `level` is 1-6.
45 Heading { level: u8, text: String },
46 /// A run of body text.
47 Paragraph { text: String },
48 /// A form checkbox (docling's `checkbox_selected`/`checkbox_unselected`): its
49 /// clean label `text` with the checked state. DocLang emits a `<checkbox>`
50 /// element head; Markdown/JSON render the task-list form (`- [x] `/`- [ ] `).
51 CheckboxItem { checked: bool, text: String },
52 /// A single list item at the given nesting `level` (0 = top). For ordered
53 /// items, `number` is the display number (honoring the list's `start`); it
54 /// is unused for unordered items. `first_in_list` marks the first item of a
55 /// list so the serializer can blank-line-separate adjacent sibling lists.
56 ///
57 /// `marker` is the DocLang enumeration marker (`"1."`, `"1.1."`, …) when the
58 /// backend provides one — HTML and DOCX set it for enumerated items, so
59 /// DocLang emits `<ldiv><marker>…</marker></ldiv>`; Markdown and the other
60 /// declarative backends leave it `None`, giving a bare `<ldiv/>` (matching
61 /// docling, whose Markdown backend passes no marker).
62 ListItem {
63 ordered: bool,
64 number: u64,
65 first_in_list: bool,
66 text: String,
67 level: u8,
68 marker: Option<String>,
69 /// Optional layout provenance (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511): the
70 /// four DocLang `<location>` values emitted inside the `<list>` right
71 /// after the item's `<ldiv>`. Set only by backends with real geometry
72 /// (e.g. PPTX shapes); `None` for the declarative backends. Kept on the
73 /// item itself (rather than a [`Node::Located`] wrapper) so consecutive
74 /// items still group into one `<list>`.
75 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
76 /// DocLang-only override for items whose DocLang form diverges from their
77 /// flat Markdown `text`. Markdown/JSON always render the fields above; the
78 /// DocLang serializer, when this is `Some`, takes the list kind, marker,
79 /// and content from here instead. Used for docx multilevel numbering
80 /// (Markdown shows `- 1.1. x`, DocLang an ordered `<marker>1.1.</marker>`
81 /// with clean text) and inline equations/formatting in list items.
82 dclx: Option<ListItemDclx>,
83 /// The item's hyperlink target, when its content is a link — docling's
84 /// HTML backend emits it as an `<href uri=…/>` in the item head, and the
85 /// anchor's Markdown link markup is stripped from the rendered content.
86 /// `None` for a plain item; ignored by Markdown/JSON.
87 href: Option<String>,
88 /// Non-body content layer (docling's HTML site chrome before the first
89 /// heading → `furniture`). DocLang emits a `<layer value=…/>` in the item
90 /// head; Markdown/JSON drop a non-body item entirely.
91 layer: Option<ContentLayer>,
92 },
93 /// A fenced code block.
94 Code {
95 language: Option<String>,
96 text: String,
97 /// The original (pre-enrichment) text when the CodeFormula model
98 /// rewrote `text`: docling keeps the raw extraction in the JSON `orig`
99 /// field while `text` carries the model output. `None` → `orig == text`.
100 orig: Option<String>,
101 /// A line-preserving rendering, when the backend can reconstruct one
102 /// but docling's own output for the format cannot. The PDF pipeline
103 /// sets it (docling-parse joins code lines with single spaces, so
104 /// `text` carries that flat docling-parity form): **strict** Markdown
105 /// prefers `pretty`, every byte-conformance surface (legacy Markdown,
106 /// JSON, DocLang, chunks) serializes `text`.
107 pretty: Option<String>,
108 },
109 /// A table. The first row is treated as the header.
110 Table(Table),
111 /// A picture/figure, with an optional caption and (when a backend extracts
112 /// it) the embedded image itself.
113 Picture {
114 caption: Option<String>,
115 image: Option<PictureImage>,
116 /// DocumentPictureClassifier predictions (all classes, descending
117 /// confidence), when the picture-classification enrichment ran.
118 /// Serialized as docling's `classification` annotation + `meta` field
119 /// on the JSON picture item; Markdown/DocLang output is unaffected.
120 classification: Option<Vec<PictureClass>>,
121 },
122 /// A display-math formula item decoded by the CodeFormula enrichment:
123 /// `latex` is the model's LaTeX (no `$$` wrapping), `orig` the raw glyph
124 /// text extracted from the PDF. Markdown renders `$$latex$$`; JSON emits a
125 /// `formula` text item (docling's un-enriched pipeline instead emits a
126 /// placeholder paragraph — see the PDF assembler).
127 Formula {
128 latex: String,
129 orig: String,
130 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
131 },
132 /// A chart (docling's `PictureItem` classified as a chart, carrying a
133 /// `PictureTabularChartData` annotation). Markdown and JSON render it exactly
134 /// like a [`Node::Picture`] placeholder (an `<!-- image -->` / `picture`
135 /// item); the DocLang serializer emits `<picture class="chart">` with a
136 /// `<label value="{kind}"/>` and the data `table` as a `<tabular>`.
137 Chart {
138 /// docling's classification label, e.g. `bar_chart`, `line_chart`.
139 kind: String,
140 /// The chart's data grid (row 0 is the header band).
141 table: Table,
142 /// The chart title (docling's caption item on the picture).
143 caption: Option<String>,
144 /// DocLang `<location>` provenance for the picture element.
145 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
146 },
147 /// A logical grouping of child nodes (e.g. a list, a section).
148 Group { label: String, children: Vec<Node> },
149 /// A form key-value region (docling's `field_region`): a set of form fields,
150 /// each pairing an optional marker, key, and value. Backends detect these
151 /// from form structure (e.g. HTML's `keyN` / `keyN_valueM` / `keyN_marker`
152 /// `id`-convention); the serializers render each item's parts as separate
153 /// labelled texts (`marker` / `field_key` / `field_value`).
154 FieldRegion { items: Vec<FieldItem> },
155 /// Rich inline content — docling's `InlineGroup`: a run of styled text
156 /// segments that a backend captured with formatting (`<bold>`, `<italic>`,
157 /// `<underline>`, `<strikethrough>`, sub/superscript, inline `<code>`) the
158 /// flat Markdown text cannot represent. Markdown/JSON render this exactly
159 /// like `Paragraph { text: md_text }` (so their output is unchanged); the
160 /// DocLang serializer uses the structured `runs`. `unwrapped` is set when the
161 /// group's docling parent is a heading/text (no enclosing `<text>` wrapper).
162 InlineGroup {
163 unwrapped: bool,
164 runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
165 md_text: String,
166 },
167 /// A node in a non-body content layer — `furniture` (page headers/footers,
168 /// the HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome) or `notes` (docx comments).
169 /// Markdown and JSON omit these layers by default; DocLang renders the wrapped
170 /// node with a `<layer value="{layer}"/>` head.
171 Furniture {
172 layer: ContentLayer,
173 inner: Box<Node>,
174 },
175 /// A node carrying layout provenance — the four DocLang `<location>` values
176 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511) docling attaches to elements from
177 /// backends with real geometry (e.g. the slide shapes in PPTX). Markdown and
178 /// JSON render the wrapped node unchanged; DocLang emits the `<location>`
179 /// tokens as the element's first children.
180 Located {
181 location: [u16; 4],
182 inner: Box<Node>,
183 },
184 /// A PDF page header or footer (docling's `page_header`/`page_footer`
185 /// furniture): DocLang emits `<page_header>`/`<page_footer>` with a
186 /// `<layer value="furniture"/>` head, the four `<location>` tokens, then the
187 /// text. Markdown and JSON omit it like other furniture.
188 PageFurniture {
189 footer: bool,
190 location: [u16; 4],
191 text: String,
192 },
193 /// A page boundary — docling's implicit page break between pages. The PPTX
194 /// backend emits one between consecutive slides. DocLang renders it as
195 /// `<page_break/>`; Markdown and JSON omit it (matching docling's default
196 /// exports, which carry page breaks only in the document model).
197 PageBreak,
198 /// An invisible page marker — the first node of every page the PDF paths
199 /// assemble: the 1-based page number and the page size in PDF points. It
200 /// carries exactly what the JSON export needs to populate docling's
201 /// `pages` map and to denormalize the 0–511 `<location>` grid back into
202 /// BOTTOMLEFT point bboxes for per-item `prov` (#171). Every other
203 /// serializer skips it, so Markdown / DocLang / DocTags output is
204 /// byte-for-byte unchanged.
205 PageInfo {
206 /// 1-based page number (0 = "not yet numbered": the assembler emits
207 /// the marker, the document-level collector stamps the real number).
208 page_no: usize,
209 /// Page width in PDF points.
210 width: f32,
211 /// Page height in PDF points.
212 height: f32,
213 },
214 /// A node docling keeps in the document model (and DocLang) but leaves out
215 /// of the Markdown and JSON exports — e.g. an ODF *presentation*'s pictures
216 /// and charts, which appear in the `.dclx` body but not in its `.md`/`.json`.
217 /// DocLang renders the wrapped node in place; Markdown and JSON skip it.
218 DoclangOnly(Box<Node>),
219 /// A verbatim plain-text dump — docling's plain-text backend emits the whole
220 /// file as a single text item (used for legacy USPTO APS `.txt` grants, which
221 /// docling routes to plain text rather than its APS parser). The stored string
222 /// is the file body, one record per line. Markdown/JSON render it as one text
223 /// block; the DocLang serializer reproduces minidom's per-line layout, CDATA-
224 /// escaping only the lines that need it (see `emit_text_dump`).
225 TextDump(String),
226}
227
228/// Vertical text position of an [`InlineRun`] — docling's `Script`.
229#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
230pub enum Script {
231 #[default]
232 Baseline,
233 Sub,
234 Super,
235}
236
237/// One styled segment of a [`Node::InlineGroup`] — the docling.rs analogue of a
238/// `TextItem` inside an `InlineGroup`, carrying the ancestor formatting docling
239/// tracks. `text` is already whitespace-normalized/trimmed (one segment per
240/// source text node). A hyperlink is intentionally not stored: DocLang drops the
241/// target inside inline scope, keeping only the anchor text.
242#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
243pub struct InlineRun {
244 pub text: String,
245 pub bold: bool,
246 pub italic: bool,
247 pub underline: bool,
248 pub strike: bool,
249 pub script: Script,
250 pub code: bool,
251 /// An inline equation (`text` holds LaTeX): DocLang renders `<formula>…`,
252 /// Markdown/JSON keep the `$…$` already baked into the group's `md_text`.
253 pub formula: bool,
254}
255
256/// A DocLang content layer other than the default `body` (see [`Node::Furniture`]).
257#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
258pub enum ContentLayer {
259 /// Page headers/footers, HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome.
260 Furniture,
261 /// Editorial notes (docx reviewer comments).
262 Notes,
263 /// Invisible content (hidden spreadsheet sheets).
264 Invisible,
265}
266
267impl ContentLayer {
268 /// The `<layer value="…"/>` token value.
269 pub fn value(self) -> &'static str {
270 match self {
271 ContentLayer::Furniture => "furniture",
272 ContentLayer::Notes => "notes",
273 ContentLayer::Invisible => "invisible",
274 }
275 }
276}
277
278/// DocLang-only content for a [`Node::ListItem`] whose DocLang form differs from
279/// its flat Markdown `text` (see [`Node::ListItem::dclx`]). `ordered` picks the
280/// enclosing `<list>` kind, `marker` the `<ldiv><marker>`; content is `runs`
281/// (structured equations/formatting) when non-empty, else `text` re-parsed for
282/// inline markers.
283#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
284pub struct ListItemDclx {
285 pub ordered: bool,
286 pub marker: Option<String>,
287 pub text: String,
288 pub runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
289}
290
291impl InlineRun {
292 /// A run with no active formatting (renders as bare inline text).
293 pub fn is_plain(&self) -> bool {
294 !self.bold
295 && !self.italic
296 && !self.underline
297 && !self.strike
298 && !self.code
299 && !self.formula
300 && self.script == Script::Baseline
301 }
302}
303
304/// Build the [`Node`] for a paragraph of inline content from its structured
305/// `runs` and Markdown text, applying docling's `InlineGroup` boundary:
306///
307/// * a single plain run (or none) → a plain [`Node::Paragraph`] (which the
308/// serializers render as `<text>…</text>`, and a lone hyperlink via `<href>`);
309/// * a single uniformly-formatted run, or two or more runs → a
310/// [`Node::InlineGroup`]. `unwrapped` (the group's docling parent is a
311/// heading, so no enclosing `<text>`) only applies to multi-run groups.
312///
313/// Markdown/JSON render the group's `md_text`, so their output is identical to
314/// emitting a `Paragraph` — the structured runs are DocLang-only.
315pub fn inline_paragraph_node(md_text: String, runs: Vec<InlineRun>, unwrapped: bool) -> Node {
316 let single_plain = runs.len() <= 1 && runs.first().is_none_or(|r| r.is_plain());
317 if single_plain {
318 Node::Paragraph { text: md_text }
319 } else {
320 Node::InlineGroup {
321 unwrapped: unwrapped && runs.len() >= 2,
322 runs,
323 md_text,
324 }
325 }
326}
327
328/// One entry of a [`Node::FieldRegion`]: a marker/key/value triple, any of which
329/// may be absent. Mirrors docling's `field_item` with its `marker` / `field_key`
330/// / `field_value` child texts.
331#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
332pub struct FieldItem {
333 pub marker: Option<String>,
334 pub key: Option<String>,
335 pub value: Option<String>,
336}
337
338/// One DocumentPictureClassifier prediction — docling-core's
339/// `PictureClassificationClass` (`class_name` + `confidence`).
340#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
341pub struct PictureClass {
342 /// e.g. `bar_chart`, `logo`, `signature` (the classifier's 26-label set).
343 pub class_name: String,
344 pub confidence: f32,
345}
346
347/// An extracted picture's raw encoded bytes plus its mimetype and pixel size —
348/// the docling.rs analogue of docling-core's `ImageRef`.
349#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
350pub struct PictureImage {
351 /// e.g. `image/png`, `image/jpeg`.
352 pub mimetype: String,
353 pub width: u32,
354 pub height: u32,
355 /// The image file bytes, exactly as embedded (PNG/JPEG/…).
356 pub data: Vec<u8>,
357}
358
359impl PictureImage {
360 /// A `data:` URI for the image (`data:<mimetype>;base64,<…>`).
361 pub fn data_uri(&self) -> String {
362 format!(
363 "data:{};base64,{}",
364 self.mimetype,
365 crate::base64::encode(&self.data)
366 )
367 }
368}
369
370/// A simple row-major table. By default `rows[0]` is the header row; a
371/// [`TableStructure`] overlay overrides that and adds column spans.
372#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
373pub struct Table {
374 pub rows: Vec<Vec<String>>,
375 /// Optional layout provenance: the four DocLang `<location>` values
376 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, each already normalized to the 0–511 resolution) emitted
377 /// before the table's cells. Set only by backends with real geometry (e.g.
378 /// the spreadsheet backend, whose cell grid yields a bounding box); left
379 /// `None` by declarative backends, which have no coordinates.
380 pub location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
381 /// Optional OTSL structure overlay for backends that parse real table
382 /// geometry (USPTO CALS): explicit header-row count and horizontal-span
383 /// continuations. `None` → the default (row 0 is the header, no spans).
384 /// `rows` still carries the full text grid (span text replicated) for
385 /// Markdown/JSON; DocLang uses this overlay to emit `<ched/>`/`<lcel/>`.
386 pub structure: Option<TableStructure>,
387 /// Optional per-cell block content, parallel to `rows`. A *rich* cell (an
388 /// ODF cell holding a list, several paragraphs, or a nested table) carries
389 /// its DocLang blocks here; the DocLang serializer emits them after the
390 /// cell token instead of the flat `rows` text. Markdown/JSON ignore this
391 /// and render `rows`, so their output is unchanged. `None` (or an empty
392 /// `Vec` for a given cell) → the flat text is used everywhere.
393 pub cell_blocks: Option<Vec<Vec<Vec<Node>>>>,
394 /// Optional caption (docling's `TableItem.captions`): the JATS
395 /// `<table-wrap>` label+caption, an HTML `<caption>`, etc. Markdown renders
396 /// it as a text line *before* the grid; JSON emits a caption text item the
397 /// table references; DocLang emits a `<caption>` as the table's first child.
398 /// `None` → the table has no caption.
399 pub caption: Option<String>,
400}
401
402/// OTSL structure overlay for a [`Table`], parallel to [`Table::rows`].
403#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
404pub struct TableStructure {
405 /// Per-row: `true` if the row's non-empty cells are column headers
406 /// (emitted as `<ched/>` rather than `<fcel/>`).
407 pub header_row: Vec<bool>,
408 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
409 /// horizontal span from its left neighbour (emitted as `<lcel/>`).
410 pub col_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
411 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
412 /// vertical span from the cell above (emitted as `<ucel/>`). Empty or all
413 /// `false` when the backend has no vertical spans (e.g. USPTO CALS).
414 pub row_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
415 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a non-empty cell is a row
416 /// header (emitted as `<rhed/>`) — a chart's category column. Empty when
417 /// the table has no row headers.
418 pub row_header: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
419 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell is a *column header*
420 /// cell (an HTML `<th>`). When non-empty this per-cell grid supersedes the
421 /// per-row [`Self::header_row`] for `<ched/>` emission, matching docling's
422 /// cell-level `column_header` flag; the chunker derives its header-row
423 /// count from it.
424 pub col_header: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
425}
426
427impl DoclingDocument {
428 /// Create an empty document with the given name.
429 pub fn new(name: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
430 Self {
431 name: name.into(),
432 nodes: Vec::new(),
433 strict_markdown: false,
434 compact_tables: false,
435 links: Vec::new(),
436 confidence: None,
437 }
438 }
439
440 /// Append a node.
441 pub fn push(&mut self, node: Node) {
442 self.nodes.push(node);
443 }
444
445 /// Convenience: append a heading.
446 pub fn add_heading(&mut self, level: u8, text: impl Into<String>) {
447 self.push(Node::Heading {
448 level,
449 text: text.into(),
450 });
451 }
452
453 /// Convenience: append a paragraph.
454 pub fn add_paragraph(&mut self, text: impl Into<String>) {
455 self.push(Node::Paragraph { text: text.into() });
456 }
457
458 /// Serialize the document to Markdown.
459 ///
460 /// The Rust equivalent of docling-core's
461 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_markdown()`. Uses [`Self::strict_markdown`] to
462 /// pick between docling-legacy output (default) and the cleaner, more
463 /// conformant variant.
464 pub fn export_to_markdown(&self) -> String {
465 to_markdown(self, self.strict_markdown)
466 }
467
468 /// Serialize to Markdown, explicitly choosing the mode regardless of
469 /// [`Self::strict_markdown`]. `strict = true` produces cleaner, more
470 /// conformant Markdown (code-fence languages preserved, no inline-run
471 /// spacing artifacts); `strict = false` reproduces docling's legacy output.
472 pub fn export_to_markdown_with(&self, strict: bool) -> String {
473 to_markdown(self, strict)
474 }
475
476 /// Serialize to docling-core's native JSON wire format (`DoclingDocument`
477 /// schema), pretty-printed — the Rust equivalent of
478 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_dict()` / `save_as_json()`. The output loads
479 /// back into Python docling-core and round-trips to the same Markdown.
480 pub fn export_to_json(&self) -> String {
481 serde_json::to_string_pretty(&self.export_to_json_value())
482 .expect("DoclingDocument JSON is always serializable")
483 }
484
485 /// The same JSON wire format as [`Self::export_to_json`], as a
486 /// `serde_json::Value` — for callers that append response-level extras
487 /// (docling-serve adds the confidence report, #183) before serializing.
488 pub fn export_to_json_value(&self) -> serde_json::Value {
489 crate::json::to_json(self)
490 }
491
492 /// Serialize to DocLang XML (`<doclang version="0.7">…`), the markup that
493 /// lives inside a `.dclx` archive — the Rust counterpart of docling-core's
494 /// `export_to_doclang()` with default parameters. No trailing newline; the
495 /// archive writer appends exactly one.
496 pub fn export_to_doclang(&self) -> String {
497 crate::doclang::export_to_doclang(&self.nodes)
498 }
499
500 /// Serialize to Markdown with an explicit picture [`ImageMode`] (mirrors
501 /// docling's `image_mode`). Returns the Markdown and, for
502 /// [`ImageMode::Referenced`], the `(relative-path, bytes)` of each image the
503 /// caller should write next to the Markdown file. `artifacts_dir` is the
504 /// directory name used in referenced links.
505 pub fn export_to_markdown_with_images(
506 &self,
507 image_mode: ImageMode,
508 artifacts_dir: &str,
509 ) -> (String, Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>) {
510 to_markdown_images(self, self.strict_markdown, image_mode, artifacts_dir)
511 }
512}