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Docling MCP MCP Server

Name: Docling MCP MCP Server
Author: docling-project

Convert PDFs and other documents to structured formats via Docling, for AI applications.

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docling-project-docling-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docling-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCLING_MCP_CONVERSION_MODE": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_URL": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_API_KEY": "YOUR_DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_API_KEY",
        "DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_TIMEOUT": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_MAX_RETRIES": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_FALLBACK_TO_LOCAL": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_KEEP_IMAGES": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_IMAGES_SCALE": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_DO_OCR": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_DO_TABLE_STRUCTURE": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_DO_PICTURE_DESCRIPTION": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_PICTURE_DESCRIPTION_PRESET": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_IMAGE_EXPORT_MODE": "",
        "DOCLING_MCP_CACHE_MAX_DOCUMENTS": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
DOCLING_MCP_CONVERSION_MODE	No	Conversion mode: 'remote' (default) or 'local' (requires docling-mcp[local] extra).
DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_URL	No	Base URL of the Docling Serve instance. Required when conversion mode is remote.
DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_API_KEY	No	API key for authenticating with Docling Serve. Secret.
DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_TIMEOUT	No	Request timeout in seconds for the remote Docling Serve API. Default: 300.0.
DOCLING_MCP_SERVICE_MAX_RETRIES	No	Maximum number of retry attempts for remote API requests. Default: 3.
DOCLING_MCP_FALLBACK_TO_LOCAL	No	Set to 'true' to fall back to local conversion when Docling Serve is unreachable.
DOCLING_MCP_KEEP_IMAGES	No	Set to 'true' to retain page images in converted documents. Default: false.
DOCLING_MCP_IMAGES_SCALE	No	Image scale factor (e.g. 1.0, 2.0). Increase to avoid tensor batching errors. Default: 1.0.
DOCLING_MCP_DO_OCR	No	Set to 'false' to disable the OCR pipeline. Default: true.
DOCLING_MCP_DO_TABLE_STRUCTURE	No	Set to 'false' to disable table structure detection. Default: true.
DOCLING_MCP_DO_PICTURE_DESCRIPTION	No	Set to 'true' to run a vision-language model to generate textual descriptions for figures and pictures. Requires a VLM to be available on the conversion backend. Default: false.
DOCLING_MCP_PICTURE_DESCRIPTION_PRESET	No	Preset ID for the picture-description VLM (e.g. 'smolvlm', 'granite_vision'). When unset the backend default is used. Only applies when DOCLING_MCP_DO_PICTURE_DESCRIPTION=true.
DOCLING_MCP_IMAGE_EXPORT_MODE	No	Controls how images are rendered when exporting to Markdown. Accepted values: 'placeholder' (default, emits <!-- image -->), 'embedded' (base64 data-URI), 'referenced' (file path / URL).
DOCLING_MCP_CACHE_MAX_DOCUMENTS	No	Maximum number of documents to keep in the in-memory cache. Oldest (least-recently-used) documents are evicted when the limit is reached. Default: 10.

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