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Footnotes extraction for IEEE journals
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### Requested feature
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Hello,
It looks like Docling doesn't recognize footnotes properly for some IEEE manuscripts. For example,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.08661
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.08027
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.08609
Currently, Docling recognizes those as the main text usually. Please see attached.
Such manuscript templates are quite popular within the IEEE organization and contain important meta-information about the authors.
Would it be possible to retrain/fine-tune the model so that Docling would recognize those as footnotes? Thank you!
### Alternatives
I tried to use a simple rule-based approach to check the font size, but unfortunately docling doesn't extract the font size. And it probably wouldn't be that reliable anyway.
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