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A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

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Websites are being redesigned for consumption by AI models, and now a coalition wants to extend the trend to digital documents.

The LF AI & Data Foundation, under the Linux Foundation, has formed a working group to steer the development of DocLang, an AI-friendly document format that aims to help enterprises feed their files to AI systems.

The DocLang group, founded by IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, HumanSignal, and Forgis, contends that existing formats like PDF, Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX are ill-suited for AI document parsing.

In late 2024, IBM developed an open source toolkit called Docling to facilitate AI document parsing, not unlike Microsoft's MarkItDown or the Marker project. Docling provides a way to convert various file formats into structured AI-ready data. DocLang expands upon that foundation with a standard for exchanging structured output across different systems.

"DocLang is designed to solve one of the foundational problems...

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