IBM Releases New Granite-Docling Model to Deliver End-to-End Document Understanding

IBM is releasing Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact and cutting-edge open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving their layout, tables, equations, lists, and more. It’s now available on Hugging Face through a standard Apache 2.0 license.