DocVortex

A fast, multi-format document parsing and conversion engine.

DocVortex provides a complete, standalone document pipeline:

Document -> Unified Intermediate Representation -> Render / Export

Native inputs include text PDFs, DOC/DOCX, PPT/PPTX, XLS/XLSX, RTF, ODT/ODS/ODP, EPUB, HTML, OFD and CSV. Output formats include Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, DOCX, EPUB, PDF and structured content.

Native parsing runs without OCR or VLM inference services. PDF classification is an explicit document operation; native analysis does not silently classify the document or select another inference backend.

Install

pip install docvortex
docvortex convert report.pdf --format markdown --output output/report.md
docvortex classify report.pdf

Python 3.10–3.14 is supported. Native parsing does not require OCR/VLM inference services.

Parse once, export many times

import docvortex

result = docvortex.parse("report.pdf", keep_model_json=True)
result.export("output/report.md", output_format="markdown")
result.export("output/report.docx", output_format="docx")
result.export("output/report.epub", output_format="epub")
result.save_bundle("output/report.bundle")

# This works after the source document and its parsing process are gone.
restored = docvortex.load_bundle("output/report.bundle")
restored.export("output/report.pdf", output_format="pdf")

Bundles contain manifest.json, middle.json, optional model.json, and image assets. The loader verifies asset hashes. Missing external assets must be supplied before saving a portable bundle. Existing files are protected unless the caller explicitly sets overwrite=True.

Stage APIs

from docvortex.api import analyze, postprocess, render

analysis = analyze("report.pdf", page_range="1-5")
result = postprocess(analysis)
artifact = render(result.middle_json, "docx", assets=result.assets)
artifact.write("output/report.docx")

The stage API lives in docvortex.api. Root-level conveniences include parse, analyze, convert, postprocess_document, and render_artifact. The docvortex.render package also exposes the low-level renderers and their original string, bytes, dictionary, or list return values.

PDF page selections use 1-5, r1 and all; other native formats are parsed as whole documents. A caller-owned PDFDocument can be passed to analyze or parse and remains open afterward.

Page images and embedded assets

from docvortex.assets import parse_image_data_uri_strict, transcode_image
from docvortex.content.tree import iter_image_payloads
from docvortex.document.pdf import PDFDocument

with PDFDocument("report.pdf") as document:
    image = document.render_image(0, bbox=(0.1, 0.2, 0.8, 0.7), image_format="png")
# image.data, image.width, image.height, image.mime_type and image.extension
# remain available after the document closes.

render_image accepts zero-based page indices, optional normalized bounding boxes and jpeg (default), png or webp output. Omitting bbox renders the whole page. Crops are encoded directly to the requested format. crop_image continues to return JPEG bytes. Image sources opened with PDFDocument.from_image retain the existing image-to-PDF conversion behavior.

docvortex.assets exposes immutable ImageArtifact and ImageFormat contracts. parse_image_data_uri_strict(uri) validates embedded image bytes and returns (data, extension); transcode_image(data, image_format="png") returns an ImageArtifact. These operations do not fetch URLs or resolve filesystem paths, and transcoding does not add SVG rasterization support. iter_image_payloads(block) yields the current node, if it carries an image, then traverses its children depth first without modifying the document tree.

Explicit PDF classification

from docvortex.document.pdf import PDFDocument

with PDFDocument("report.pdf") as document:
    mode = document.classify()  # "txt" or "ocr"; no inference is started
    if mode == "txt":
        result = docvortex.parse(document)

Native analysis trusts the caller's choice and does not classify automatically. Applications can use the classification result to select their own OCR or inference service when a document requires it.

DocVortex JSON uses schema identity docvortex.model or docvortex.middle, schema version 2.0, and required metadata.file_suffix / metadata.producer. Definitions are in schemas/. Application-specific metadata belongs in extensions. See the shared JSON protocol and migration guide and the compatibility guide for existing application integrations and historical data formats. The HTML protocol describes DocVortex markers and semantic round trips.

Scope and development

PDF output is a semantic reflow of the document, not a lossless reproduction of the original page drawing instructions. Input support for PPTX/XLSX does not imply PPTX/XLSX output support. Rust implementation work is a future stage behind these public data and processing boundaries.

uv venv
uv pip install -e ".[test,dev]"
uv run --no-project python -m pytest -q
uv run --no-project ruff check src
uv run --no-project ruff format --check src
uv build

DocVortex project code is licensed under the MIT License.

See rendering ownership for the seven engine targets, MinerU Content List integration and public fragment helpers.

Read source metadata without parsing the body

from docvortex import extract_metadata

inspection = extract_metadata("report.pdf")
print(inspection.metadata.document.title)
print(inspection.metadata.document.authors)

All 15 native document formats support this API. Normal parsing also carries these properties in metadata.document, preserving the original PDF properties across page selections. See the field definitions, format matrix, and compatibility notes.