v2.140.0
docling-project/doclingv2.140.0Oct 16, 2026by docling-ops[bot]
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AI Summary
This release enhances the Audio Speech Recognition (ASR) module with new remote server support and native preset prefetching. It also improves AsciiDoc parsing capabilities and addresses several critical bugs in document processing for ODF, PPTX, and OCR components.
Key Highlights
- Added support for transcribing audio using remote OpenAI-compatible servers.
- Prefetched native Distil-Whisper presets for improved performance.
- Enhanced AsciiDoc parsing to handle bold, italic, and monospace text styles.
- Fixed PPTX mapping of grouped shape boxes to ensure accurate layout extraction.
New Features
- Prefetch the native Distil-Whisper presets with docling-tools
- Parse bold, italic and monospace in AsciiDoc paragraphs
- Transcribe with a remote OpenAI-compatible server
Full Release Notes
### Feature * **asr:** Prefetch the native Distil-Whisper presets with docling-tools ([#4825](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4825)) ([`483cf13`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/483cf138be2fb236483adc359bd881fec74108b2)) * **asciidoc:** Parse bold, italic and monospace in paragraphs ([#4824](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4824)) ([`fd24b9e`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/fd24b9ebc0079822f0644009a2dbeeb5906b4f3c)) * **asr:** Transcribe with a remote OpenAI-compatible server ([#4853](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4853)) ([`b246052`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/b246052fe845e1f8a6ef68dfc088faa6da20e53b)) ### Fix * **odf:** Move hidden ODT sections to the invisible content layer ([#4860](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4860)) ([`f690a52`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/f690a5232c505c787a1e952216b431134b4d7c94)) * **reading-order:** Bound page-separator candidate work and honor document_timeout ([#4633](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4633)) ([`5f45097`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/5f4509767647721a8ec011ce6a3a6a39b19bb1f0)) * **asciidoc:** Don't take a line that starts with an abbreviation for a list item ([#4827](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4827)) ([`6275f29`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/6275f29acd00406f5faf7d41297acc875304e243)) * **email:** Escape the text of an HTML body only once ([#4828](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4828)) ([`d0c51d0`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/d0c51d08dacf21d109d9b894859670be0b76d8b0)) * **pptx:** Map grouped shape boxes through the group transform ([#4859](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4859)) ([`04eefdd`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/04eefdd3dfc1ff2e9bf27536abe60f9f3881b1cb)) * **service:** Align ConfidenceScores.pages to ConfidenceReport.pages ([#4850](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4850)) ([`f6750c4`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/f6750c4061d6911cfaaa48d7cbd9aeb1509fd2fb)) * **ocr:** Do not OCR an enclosed region twice ([#4748](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/4748)) ([`6fadbae`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/6fadbae317b09c4dd4051c0f1fc1746c6baf04bc))
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