Intelligent automation technology provider ABBYY announced it has become part of the DocLang Specification Working Group, a collaborative effort to create an open document standard that aims to improve how enterprise documents are prepared, exchanged and governed for AI applications.
The initiative, led by LF AI & Data and backed by IBM, NVIDIA and Red Hat, along with contributors including ABBYY and HumanSignal, will operate under the Joint Development Foundation’s governance framework and focus on creating a vendor-neutral specification for document processing across AI and agentic workflows.
“Documents remain one of the most important sources of enterprise knowledge, but most were never designed for AI-driven workflows.” said Mark Collier, general manager of AI & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF AI & Data. “With the launch of the DocLang Working Group, we are bringing the open-source community together to develop a vendor-neutral, interoperable standard that helps organizations prepare document data for AI more reliably, transparently, and at scale.”
According to LF AI & Data, DocLang will support preservation of document structure, layout, semantic meaning and governance controls in a format optimized for AI systems. The specification complements Docling, an open-source document processing toolkit that converts documents into structured representations for downstream AI applications.
The organizations behind the initiative said the effort is intended to improve interoperability across AI ecosystems and provide a common framework for document understanding. Organizations and individual contributors can participate in the working group as development of the specification moves forward.