@@ -89,5 +89,5 @@
 
 - Set `UVICORN_WORKERS=1` (required at 8 GB RAM)
 - Set `DOCLING_NUM_THREADS=4` and `OMP_NUM_THREADS=4`
-- Disable unused features in requests (`do_ocr=false`, `do_table_structure=false`, etc.) unless explicitly needed
+- Disable unused features in requests (`do_ocr=false`, `do_table_structure=false`, `do_layout=false`, etc.) unless explicitly needed
 - Use external APIs for formula and picture enrichment instead of local models

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     - `force_ocr`: Replace existing text with OCR-generated text
     - `ocr_engine`, `ocr_lang`: OCR engine and language options
     - `image_export_mode`: `placeholder`, `embedded`, `referenced`
+    - `do_layout` (default True): Enable document layout analysis to detect and classify page regions such as text blocks, headings, figures, tables, and other structural elements. Required for accurate content segmentation and reading-order reconstruction. Can be disabled to skip layout processing for faster performance when layout information is not needed.
     - `do_table_structure`, `table_mode`, `table_cell_matching`: Table extraction options (see Table Structure Models section below for details on TableFormer V1 and V2)
     - `do_code_enrichment`, `do_formula_enrichment`: Code/formula recognition
     - `vlm_pipeline_preset`, `vlm_pipeline_custom_config`, `picture_description_preset`, `picture_description_custom_config`, `code_formula_preset`, `code_formula_custom_config`: New model inference engine and preset options for VLM, picture description, and code/formula extraction
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@
 
 ### PDF (continued)
 
-- **Pipeline Option Overrides**: The Python API allows you to override pipeline options at conversion time for a given format using the `format_options` argument. Only `do_*` flags (such as `do_ocr`, `do_table_structure`, `do_code_enrichment`, `do_formula_enrichment`, etc.) can be changed, and only from `True` to `False`. All other options must remain identical to those used at pipeline initialization. Attempting to enable a do_* flag or change other fields will result in an error. This enables per-call disabling of enrichment features without reinitializing the pipeline.
+- **Pipeline Option Overrides**: The Python API allows you to override pipeline options at conversion time for a given format using the `format_options` argument. Only `do_*` flags (such as `do_ocr`, `do_layout`, `do_table_structure`, `do_code_enrichment`, `do_formula_enrichment`, etc.) can be changed, and only from `True` to `False`. All other options must remain identical to those used at pipeline initialization. Attempting to enable a do_* flag or change other fields will result in an error. This enables per-call disabling of enrichment features without reinitializing the pipeline.
 - **Exporting Scanned/Image-Based PDFs**: When processing scanned or image-based PDFs with `force_full_page_ocr=True`, the layout model classifies full-page scans as `PictureItem` and OCR text is stored as children of those picture nodes. To export this OCR text via `export_to_markdown()` or `export_to_text()`, you must set the `traverse_pictures=True` parameter. Without this parameter, export functions will return empty results even though OCR text exists in the document.
 
 ```python