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Docling MCP MCP Server

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

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Published as docling-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

27 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Markdown export tools hardcode image_mode=PLACEHOLDER, ignoring DOCLING_MCP_KEEP_IMAGES entirely

Summary

export_docling_document_to_markdown and save_docling_document always render pictures as <!-- image --> placeholders in their Markdown output, regardless of DOCLING_MCP_KEEP_IMAGES or whether the converted document actually has image data loaded. There is no way to get embedded (base64) images out of these two tools — you have to bypass docling-mcp and call the docling-serve REST API directly.

Where

docling_mcp/tools/generation.py (docling-mcp==3.0.0):

# expo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/docling-project/docling-mcp/issues/128) · 2026-08-07 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Server not running due to missing dependency

Tested on TUXEDO OS and Gentoo:
`uvx --from=docling-mcp docling-mcp-server`

2026-07-04 17:30:15,108 - docling_mcp - INFO - loading conversion tools... [07/04/26 17:30:15] INFO loading conversion tools... mcp_server.py:56 2026-07-04 17:30:15,114 - docling_mcp - INFO - loading g

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · external user · 3 comments

convert_document has zero exposed knobs, four hidden env-var defaults — three of them user-hostile

Upstream issue body — paste at docling-project/docling-mcp/issues/new

Title: convert_document has zero exposed knobs, four hidden env-var defaults — three of them user-hostile

The first-time-user experience, transcribed

A user (me) installed docling-mcp via uvx in Claude Desktop tonight, asked Claude to convert a born-digital PDF, and hit four distinct failure modes in sequence — each requiring a different env var to fix, each surfaced via a different error message

Read the thread · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

convert_document_into_docling_document hits MCP client timeout on cold start (no preload path)

Symptom

A user installs docling-mcp via uvx (e.g. in Claude Desktop's mcpServers config), authorizes a folder containing a PDF, and asks the client to convert it. The server starts, the handshake completes, all 19 tools register, and the convert call times out:

McpError: MCP error -32001: Request timed out

The server-side Processing document from source: ... log line is reached (the call passed all server-side validation), but DocumentConverter.convert() doesn't return in

Read the thread · 2026-05-13 · open · external user · 2 comments

Not able to get docling mcp working on Claude Desktop

I installed the Docling MCP on Claude Desktop. But as soon as it's installed an error.

Image

Can you please help with this?

Read the thread · 2025-12-29 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Most recent

Prompt descriptions include full docstring, causing UI bloat for prompts

Version: docling-mcp 2.2.1

The description of each prompt registered with @mcp.prompt() is set to the function's FULL docstring, including the "Args:" section.

Example:

Convert a local PDF file into a Docling document and return its document key.
Args: file_path: The absolute or relative path to a local PDF file.

This is redundant: the same parameter descriptions are already parsed into the structured arguments field of the prompt (via func_metadata in Prompt.from_fu

Read the thread · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment

convert_document has zero exposed knobs, four hidden env-var defaults — three of them user-hostile

Title: convert_document has zero exposed knobs, four hidden env-var defaults — three of them user-hostile

The first-time-user experience, transcribed

A user (me) installed docling-mcp via uvx in Claude Desktop tonight, asked Claude to convert a born-digital PDF, and hit four distinct failure modes in sequence — each requiring a different env var to fix, each surfaced via a different error message, none of them documented on the tool surface.

  1. First attempt → `MCP error

Read the thread · 2026-07-06 · closed · external user · 1 comment

feat: support VlmPipelineOptions in local converter to enable granite-docling via ollama

Summary

The local converter in docling_mcp/tools/converters/local.py hardcodes PdfPipelineOptions, making it impossible to use VlmPipelineOptions (e.g. granite-docling via a local ollama instance) without patching the venv directly.

What docling already supports

The docling library already ships VlmPipelineOptions with ibm/granite-docling:258m as the default VLM, and pre-configures the ollama API endpoint:

api_overrides={VlmEngineType.API_OLLAMA: ApiModelConfig(para

[Read the thread](https://github.com/docling-project/docling-mcp/issues/105) · 2026-06-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Bug: default conversion_mode=remote causes immediate ValueError for local users in v2.1.0

## Bug: default `conversion_mode=remote` causes immediate `ValueError` for local users in v2.1.0

**Version:** docling-mcp 2.1.0
**Transport:** `stdio` via `uvx` in Claude Desktop

### Description

Since v2.1.0, `ServiceClientSettings` in `settings/service_client.py` defaults `conversion_mode` to `ConversionMode.REMOTE`. This causes an immediate `ValueError` on any document conversion attempt for users running docling-mcp locally without a remote Docling service:

ValueError: DOCLING_SERVICE

Read the thread · 2026-06-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

docling-mcp is not found in the Claude

Claude 1.7196.0 (2dbd78) 2026-05-12T05:34:40.000Z Ubuntu 24.04

Here is my file claude_desktop_config.json

"docling": {
      "command": "/home/sarit/.local/bin/uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from=docling-mcp",
        "docling-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PATH": "/home/sarit/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
      }
    }

The UI shows me normal.

<img width="751" height="379" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1f4323f-1b1f-490f-b

Read the thread · 2026-06-11 · closed · external user · 1 comment

421 error when trying connect to non-localhost

Hello, I have some problem with connecting to docling-mcp host in kubernetes My params:

          command:
            - docling-mcp-server
            - '--transport'
            - streamable-http
            - '--port'
            - '8000'
            - '--host'
            - 0.0.0.0
          ports:
            - name: mcp
              containerPort: 8000
              protocol: TCP

I enter into my pod docling-mcp server and if a try curl -v http://localhost:8000/mcp all good But

Read the thread · 2026-02-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Add support for persisting "furniture" content (headers/footers) in converted documents

Currently, docling-mcp does not provide a method or feature-flag to persist "furniture" content (headers & footers) which can sometimes contain useful metadata regarding document types, identifiers, etc.

Introduce a feature parameter that allows for the toggling of furniture content to allow users to optionally retain header / footer content as well as expose it within the markdown conversion or for added context for any tool calls

Regarding the implementation strategy, could be a bool / enum

Read the thread · 2025-11-04 · open · external user · 0 comments

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