Running Docling on AWS Lambda, Vercel, and serverless platforms
What actually works when you try to run Docling on AWS Lambda or Vercel. Hard limits, cold starts, OCR filesystem traps, and the patterns that survive production.
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Docling vs LlamaParse vs Marker for PDF parsing
A criteria-first comparison of Docling, LlamaParse, and Marker for parsing PDFs in RAG pipelines. Licensing, output, cost per 1k pages, and what to actually test.
Using Docling in n8n to parse PDFs to Markdown
Wire Docling into n8n with the verified Parsebridge community node, parse PDFs out of Gmail, Drive, or Slack, and feed clean Markdown to Notion, Pinecone, or an LLM.
Running Docling in Docker
Production setup for running Docling in Docker. Image variants, model cache, GPU passthrough, sizing, and the env vars that matter.
Running the Docling API yourself with Docling Serve
How to host the Docling REST API with Docling Serve. Install, call /v1/convert/source, run async jobs, and survive the production gotchas.
Getting started with Docling in Python
A hands-on guide to parsing PDFs with Docling in Python. Install it, parse your first document, handle tables and OCR, and know when self-hosting makes sense.