DocuLane

Office document CLI for agents — read, write, and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint without Office installed.

Open-source CLI and SDK that give coding agents direct access to Office documents — Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and PowerPoint (.pptx). No Microsoft Office installation required.

Why it exists

Agents need to process business documents — reports, spreadsheets, presentations. DocuLane makes this possible without Office licenses or installations:

• CLI-first — command-line interface for agents
• Local-first — run the open tool with your own files
• Hosted path — sell/meter usage under /v1/doculane/*
• No dependencies — works without Microsoft Office

Part of Talocode: open tools people trust, hosted power behind them.

Install

pip install talocode-doculane

With optional dependencies:

pip install talocode-doculane[all]  # Excel + Word + PowerPoint
pip install talocode-doculane[excel]  # Excel only
pip install talocode-doculane[word]  # Word only
pip install talocode-doculane[powerpoint]  # PowerPoint only

Quickstart

from doculane import DocuLaneClient

client = DocuLaneClient()

# Read an Excel file
data = client.read("report.xlsx")
print(data["sheets"][0]["data"])

# Write a Word document
client.write("output.docx", {
    "paragraphs": ["Hello World", "Second paragraph"]
})

# Get capabilities
print(client.capabilities())

Supported formats

API surface

Local engine

Hosted routes (Talocode Cloud)

Auth:

Authorization: Bearer $TALOCODE_API_KEY

CLI

doculane read <file>
doculane write <file> <json-data>
doculane info <file>
doculane health
doculane capabilities
doculane pricing

Develop

git clone https://github.com/talocode/doculane
cd doculane/python
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Related packages

Talocode ecosystem

More: github.com/talocode · talocode.site · docs.talocode.site

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/talocode/doculane
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/talocode-doculane
• Docs: https://docs.talocode.site
• API base: https://api.talocode.site

License

MIT © Talocode