Installation

Quick Installation

You can install sieves with different options depending on your needs

Core package:

pip install sieves

Ingestion libraries (document parsing such as docling) are optional. Install them manually or use the ingestion extra:

pip install "sieves[ingestion]"

The minimal setup lets you add only what you need to keep the footprint small.

All optional dependencies for every feature, including distillation and ingestion:

pip install "sieves[distill,ingestion]"

Document ingestion/parsing libraries (PDF/DOCX parsing, etc.):

pip install "sieves[ingestion]"

Distillation utilities for model fine-tuning:

pip install "sieves[distill]"

Set up uv.
Install all dependencies for development, testing, documentation generation with: uv pip install --system .[distill,ingestion,test].