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fix(server): restore Docling "u" glyph names that docling-parse leaves unmapped - #962

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docling-parse 6.2.0 leaves Adobe Glyph List u names unmapped, the same way it leaves /dollarsign. It writes them into the text literally, so a math page reads let /u1D4652 = /u1D466 instead of let 𝑥2 = 𝑦. It already maps uniXXXX names.

This change extends _restore_glyph_names in the Docling adapter (added in #961). A /u followed by four or five uppercase hex digits becomes its character:

  • A leaked name runs straight into the characters after it, so its length cannot be read from the text. Five digits are read only inside the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block (U+1D400 to U+1D7FF): /u1D4652 becomes 𝑥2. Any other name is four digits: /u20142 becomes —2, pages 10/u201320 becomes pages 10–20, H/u1ECCC becomes HỌC, and /u0041BC becomes ABC.
  • That block holds every leaked name found on olmOCR-bench (below). A wider five-digit reading turns a BMP character glued to a digit or an uppercase hex letter into an unrelated code point: a dash before a digit into a CJK ideograph, or a Vietnamese Ọ before C into an unassigned plane-1 code point.
  • The cost: a genuine five-digit u name outside that block, such as an emoji, a CJK Extension B glyph or a variation selector in a font with no ToUnicode entry, is read as four digits plus text, and a Phonetic Extensions name (U+1D40 to U+1D7F) followed by a hex digit is read as a math letter. Exact boundaries would need per-glyph cells, which Docling's docling-parse backend does not keep (keep_char_cells = False); mapping u names in docling-parse itself is the complete fix.
  • Surrogate codes and names that are too short or lowercase stay as they are.

As with the sign names, the repair runs after conversion on text items (text, orig) and table cell text, for PDF inputs only.

Where the leaks occur

A docling-parse 6.2.0 scan of the olmOCR-bench PDFs found 1,205 leaked u names in 6 files: 5 arxiv_math pages and 1 headers_footers page. Every one was a five-digit Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols name (U+1D434 to U+1D719), none followed by a hex digit, such as /u1D461 (𝑡), /u1D465 (𝑥) or /u1D451 (𝑑).

Converted with the default profile, the Markdown of those 6 pages holds 639 leaked names before this change and none after it; each became its character.

olmOCR-bench

allenai/olmOCR-bench at 54a96a6fb6a2bd3b297e59869491db4d3625b711, all 1,403 pages, on one NVIDIA L4 per run. Base is main without this change, branch is this PR. The default pair ran on both sides just before #961 limited the repair to PDF inputs; every olmOCR-bench input is a PDF, so that limit does not affect these runs. All 1,403 pages extracted in every run, with no Docling document timeouts.

Category default base default branch ocr base ocr branch
arxiv_math 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
baseline 0.9362 0.9362 0.9978 0.9978
headers_footers 0.9145 0.9145 0.8803 0.8803
long_tiny_text 0.4796 0.4796 0.7081 0.7081
multi_column 0.6787 0.6787 0.6867 0.6867
old_scans 0.1331 0.1331 0.2167 0.2167
old_scans_math 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
table_tests 0.6341 0.6341 0.7006 0.7006
Overall (mean of categories) 0.4720 0.4720 0.5238 0.5238
All tests (pass rate) 0.3170 0.3170 0.3446 0.3446

The scores do not move, and they cannot for this change: the tests on the 6 affected pages are 48 math tests, which need LaTeX that Docling does not emit (display formulas come out as formula-not-decoded placeholders), and 2 absent tests on header text. The benchmark therefore serves here as a no-regression check; the real-PDF test below shows the repair itself.

Tests

  • Unit tests (test_docling.py): four and five digits; five-digit names glued to digits and to letters; four-digit names glued to digits (/u20142, 10/u201320, /u1F002) and to hex letters (/u0041BC, H/u1ECCC); surrogates and invalid names left as they are.
  • A real-PDF test (test_docling_smoke.py, model marker) whose font /Differences names u1D465 and u1D466. It fails on main ('let /u1D4652 = /u1D466') and passes with this change.
  • ruff check, ruff format --check and ty check are clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved PDF text extraction to restore certain encoded Unicode glyph names in document text, original text, and table cells.
    • Added support for four- and five-digit code points and glyph names next to letters or digits. Invalid, incomplete, and surrogate values remain unchanged.
    • PDF extraction now also restores these glyph names in text and Markdown output without leaving the encoded fragments visible.

…rse leaves unmapped

docling-parse emits a font glyph name it cannot map to Unicode as literal "/name" text, so a PDF whose font names "$" "/dollarsign" extracts as "/dollarsign209,586" in Docling text, Markdown and table cells. Replace a leaked "/<word>sign" name with the Unicode "<WORD> SIGN" character when one exists; other names are left as they are.

Closes #868
…s unmapped

docling-parse emits an Adobe Glyph List "u" name it cannot map, such as
/u1D465 (MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL X), as literal text. Read the name as
the longest code above U+FFFF that its five or six hex digits spell, and
otherwise as four digits, so a name that runs into following hex digits
keeps them. Surrogate codes stay as they are.
Only docling-parse leaves glyph names unmapped, so HTML, DOCX and image conversions keep literal "/<word>sign" text unchanged.
# Conflicts:
#	packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling.py
#	packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling_smoke.py
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#	packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/docling/adapter.py
#	packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling.py
#	packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling_smoke.py
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The Docling adapter now restores eligible leaked Adobe Glyph List /u names in document text, original-text fields, and table-cell text. Tests cover decoding rules, unchanged invalid forms, and PDF extraction output.

Changes: Docling glyph restoration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unicode glyph-name decoding
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/docling/adapter.py
The adapter identifies /u glyph names. It decodes five-digit names in U+1D400–U+1D7FF as one code point; otherwise, it decodes the first four digits and preserves a fifth digit as trailing text. Surrogate values remain unchanged. Restoration applies to text, original-text, and table-cell fields.
Restoration and extraction tests
packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling.py, packages/sie_server/tests/adapters/test_docling_smoke.py
Parameterized tests cover four- and five-digit names, adjacent characters, and unchanged invalid or surrogate sequences. Smoke tests check restored text and markdown output. The PDF test helper accepts configurable text and encoding differences.

Suggested reviewers: huronat, svonava

Merge Risk: Low · up to af130

The change restores leaked glyph names in extracted PDF text, and the benchmark showed no remaining leaks. A few rare names can still be misread when they are followed directly by a hexadecimal character, because the text alone cannot show where a name ends. The risk is small and bounded, and the full fix belongs in docling-parse.

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The title names the change accurately: the Docling adapter now restores leaked Adobe Glyph List "u" glyph names that docling-parse does not map. The raw summary confirms the adapter change, the new unit tests, and the smoke test all target this restoration. The title is specific and describes the primary change, so it passes. It is somewhat long at 79 characters, but it stays on topic.

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- Around line 75-76: Update the glyph restoration logic around the
supplementary-code-point branch to use glyph boundaries from docling-parse and
restore each glyph independently, rather than inferring boundaries from the
flattened string. Preserve a following digit as separate text when a four-digit
BMP glyph such as `/u2014` is followed directly by it, and add a regression case
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…-1 code point

A leaked four-digit name glued to a following hex digit was read as a supplementary code point: "/u20142" became U+20142 instead of an em dash and "2". Five digits are now read only when they spell a plane-1 code point, which covers the mathematical alphanumerics that leak; any other name is four digits.
…h alphanumerics block

A leaked "u" name runs into the text that follows it, so a four-digit name
followed by an uppercase hex digit or a digit looks like a five-digit one.
Reading every plane-1 value as five digits turned "H/u1ECCC" (HỌC) into the
unassigned U+1ECCC and "/u1F002" into a Mahjong tile instead of U+1F00
followed by "2".

Read five digits only inside Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
(U+1D400 to U+1D7FF), which holds the math letters that docling-parse leaves
unmapped. A name in Phonetic Extensions (U+1D40 to U+1D7F) followed by a hex
digit stays ambiguous.
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af130c5 reads a five-digit u name only inside Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400 to U+1D7FF), with a regression case for Latin Extended Additional and Greek Extended names glued to hex digits; the olmOCR decode is unchanged.

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Learning: Within repository "superlinked/sie", only for files matching one of ["packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/docling/adapter.py"]: In packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/adapters/docling/adapter.py, _restore_glyph_names applies _restore_glyph_text to document text, orig, and table-cell text after conversion. These flattened strings do not identify a leaked /u glyph name's boundary when it joins following hex text, so do not assume that changing the prefix length can resolve every case. The current heuristic reads five digits as a plane-1 code point and otherwise reads four; it can misread BMP names in U+1000–U+1FFF followed by a hex digit and genuine names above plane 1.
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