v2.109.0

OpenReplicant/ProtoReplicantv2.109.0Jul 3, 2026by docling-ops[bot]

AI Summary

This release enhances OCR capabilities with PP-OCRv6 defaults and introduces new ASR options for Whisper. It also improves PDF structure parsing by inferring heading levels and fixes parsing issues with nested HTML tables and Strict OOXML documents.

Key Highlights

Use PP-OCRv6 RapidOCR defaults for improved text recognition.
Expose and forward native Whisper decoding options for ASR.
Infer heading levels from PDF bookmarks and Table of Contents.
Fix parsing of tables nested inside HTML list items.

New Features

Allow overriding same-font enforcement.
Use PP-OCRv6 RapidOCR defaults.
Expose and forward native Whisper decoding options.
Add code language detection.
Infer heading levels from PDF bookmarks/ToC.
Support Strict OOXML (.docx) files.

Full Release Notes

### Feature

* Allow overriding same-font enforcement ([#3737](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3737)) ([`0064a45`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/0064a4558bf820c1af0ef425fe0dbf43036ac7cc))
* Use PP-OCRv6 RapidOCR defaults ([#3677](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3677)) ([`01235ce`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/01235ceef710d822dc5ad1c4173e60990f1d1e9f))
* **asr:** Expose and forward native Whisper decoding options ([#3717](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3717)) ([`4f37eee`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/4f37eeee07a1741526671eff5329b3cca2e685b8))
* Add code language detection ([#3721](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3721)) ([`648fcf1`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/648fcf15cd42b4b7500ba0578a559cf848d37bee))
* **pdf:** Infer heading levels from PDF bookmarks/ToC ([#3688](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3688)) ([`9cbef42`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/9cbef428c63cf42b0fada976e07dbcf62e0eab88))

### Fix

* **html:** Parse tables nested inside list items (#3508) ([#3738](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3738)) ([`8c162bd`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/8c162bd4c70055ba2b959e6aea17435b1b948172))
* Forward VLM convert runtime generation settings ([#3322](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3322)) ([`1c03fd4`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/1c03fd47b22c80deb1f2c9359614e891221c4045))
* **tests:** Correct XBRL source path to point to 'sources/' subdirectory ([#3734](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3734)) ([`b77612c`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/b77612ce4770d052aa90af23681b55ab0be38971))
* **docx:** Support Strict OOXML (.docx) files ([#3729](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3729)) ([`528eb5b`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/528eb5b4b7bbb5b8253df0cf130feb24c9fd1fc4))
* **msword:** Don't abort conversion on a malformed hyperlink address ([#3744](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3744)) ([`c979c6a`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/c979c6a6bca2568ab7a0e392a87b46e0bf6d2f8b))

### Documentation

* **asr:** Document backend selection and WhisperS2T ([#3730](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/3730)) ([`e0b1ca5`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/e0b1ca5964b11fb71f7e747b75ad4be8500d8f39))