FileDigest vs Docling CLI

Docling is powerful infrastructure for document conversion. FileDigest wraps a Modal Docling engine in a paid SaaS workflow with auth, uploads, billing, private storage, job history, plan limits, and downloadable artifacts.

Use Docling CLI when

• you are comfortable scripting locally
• you only need your own machine
• you do not need subscriptions, user accounts, or hosted job history

Use FileDigest when

• you want a browser workflow
• you want users to upload files directly to private storage
• you want Modal processing instead of local processing
• you need plan gates before expensive compute starts
• you want a reusable digest.md and manifest.json

Product stance

FileDigest is not trying to replace Docling. It productizes a specific AI-document-prep workflow around it.