Instructions to use docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview
- SGLang
How to use docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/docling-project/SmolDocling-256M-preview
is there a max token limit for this? my ocr always seems to end abruptly
is there a max token limit for this? my ocr always seems to end abruptly
It's as SmolVLM original implementation 8192. If you can share your example please do.
sure. sharing an example with a single image extraction
import torch
from docling_core.types.doc import DoclingDocument
from docling_core.types.doc.document import DocTagsDocument
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForVision2Seq
from transformers.image_utils import load_image
DEVICE = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
# Load images
image = load_image("/content/2

.jpg")
# Initialize processor and model
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("ds4sd/SmolDocling-256M-preview")
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
"ds4sd/SmolDocling-256M-preview",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
).to(DEVICE)
# Create input messages
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image"},
{"type": "text", "text": "Convert this page to docling."}
]
},
]
# Prepare inputs
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = processor(text=prompt, images=[image], return_tensors="pt")
inputs = inputs.to(DEVICE)
# Generate outputs
generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=8192)
prompt_length = inputs.input_ids.shape[1]
trimmed_generated_ids = generated_ids[:, prompt_length:]
doctags = processor.batch_decode(
trimmed_generated_ids,
skip_special_tokens=False,
)[0].lstrip()
# Populate document
doctags_doc = DocTagsDocument.from_doctags_and_image_pairs([doctags], [image])
print(doctags)
# create a docling document
doc = DoclingDocument(name="Document")
doc.load_from_doctags(doctags_doc)
# export as any format
# HTML
# doc.save_as_html(output_file)
# MD
print(doc.export_to_markdown())
only half of it gets extracted
No problem. Actually this helps catch a bug, it seems the conversion to DoclingDocument didn't populate the caption. The caption is in the prediction though, we will make a fix.
thanks very much!
@jinoooooooooo can you share your notebook setup or script . For my usecase my docs are similiar to what you have pasted above , but results are very bad.
@jinoooooooooo we fixed the issue, I suggest you update docling-core package and it should work now.
@kasatgaurav if you it is possible please make a separate issue on here or on https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues with an example so we can fix this in the upcoming checkpoint.



