Decision Workspace
docling_rs vs kreuzberg vs mdkit
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
52
docling_rs
experimentalv0.1.2
Rust SDK for Docling Serve that makes document conversion simple, reliable, and production-ready in Rust
65
kreuzberg
experimentalv4.9.8
High-performance document intelligence library for Rust. Extract text, metadata, and structured data from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 90+ formats and 300+ programming languages via tree-sitter code intelligence with async/sync APIs.
59
mdkit
experimentalv0.7.4
Get markdown out of any document — Pandoc + pdfium + platform-native OCR, dispatched per format.
Core Metrics
| docling_rs | kreuzberg | mdkit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 52 | 65 | 59 |
| Total Downloads | 103 | 38.5K | 476 |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 15.2K | 0 |
| Dependents | 0 | 112 | 9 |
| Releases | 3 | 101 | 16 |
| Last Updated | 97d ago | today | 28d ago |
| Age | 3m | 5m | 29d |
Health Breakdown
docling_rs
Maintenance
14
Quality
15
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
kreuzberg
Maintenance
20
Quality
15
Community
12
Popularity
5
Documentation
13
mdkit
Maintenance
17
Quality
15
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| docling_rs | kreuzberg | mdkit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.2 | 4.9.8 | 0.7.4 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | Elastic-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 7 | 111 | 17 |
| Crate Size | 37KB | 1.7MB | 89KB |
| Features | 2 | 50 | 11 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | 1.85 | 1.91 | 1.88 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •kreuzberg leads with a health score of 65/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •kreuzberg is depended on by 112 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •docling_rs, mdkit are pre-1.0 — API may change.