IBM Granite-Docling-258M: The Open-Source Document AI Model Revolutionizing Enterprise Document Processing

Granite Docling Logo Introduction: The Challenge of Document Understanding in the Digital Age In today’s enterprise environments, organizations process countless documents daily—contracts, reports, academic papers, technical manuals, and more. While traditional optical character recognition (OCR) technologies can extract text from these documents, they often fail to preserve the underlying structure: tables become disorganized, mathematical formulas render incorrectly, code snippets lose their formatting, and even paragraph sequencing can become disrupted. This structural loss significantly reduces information retrieval efficiency and creates substantial challenges for automated document processing pipelines. IBM’s recently released Granite-Docling-258M represents a transformative approach to these challenges. This completely open-source, …