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Smoldocling inserts "The Book of the Dead" on blank pdf pages
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Description
### Bug
When processing a pdf with smoldocling mlx locally on my silicon mac, the docling document json output contains a series of "The book of the dead" text entries within parsed blank pages. These appear in doc tag output as well.
### Steps to reproduce
Running smoldocling test scripts as well as docling using vlm with smoldocling, processing a short pdf with some totally blank pages.
### Docling version
Docling version: 2.30.0
Docling Core version: 2.26.4
Docling IBM Models version: 3.4.1
Docling Parse version: 4.0.1
Python: cpython-311 (3.11.11)
Platform: macOS-15.1.1-arm64-arm-64bit
### Python version
Python 3.11.11
[book_of_dead.md](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/19930976/book_of_dead.md)
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