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Scanned PDF text turns into meaningless letters

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Description

### Bug

When using docling to parse scanned PDFs, it was found that some paragraphs turned into meaningless letters

### Steps to reproduce

The document parsing engine I set up in OpenWebUI is Docling. When interacting with the large language model, I uploaded a scanned PDF, and after parsing, I found that some paragraphs contained meaningless strings of letters like 'n sns s s a n'.
The original text of my file is as follows:

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The result after docling parsing is as follows.

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### Version
docling​ 2.63.0
Python​ 3.12

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue with the reported scanned PDF using Docling 2.63.0 and Python 3.12, then compare the parsed paragraphs with the source text shown in the attachments. Trace the document-parsing path that produces strings such as 'n sns s s a n'; done means the affected paragraphs retain meaningful text.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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