Issue when locale is set to french

[yannistml]

Bug

When explicitly setting the locale as french docling is not able to parse pdf correctly. The problem seems to be linked particularly to locale.LC_NUMERIC as with this configuration docling is functioning correctly:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "fr_FR.UTF-8") locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERICE,"en_US.UTF-8")

whereas when you just set explicitely LC_NUMERIC it's not :

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "fr_FR.UTF-8")

Steps to reproduce

import locale

from docling.document_converter import DocumentConverter

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "fr_FR.UTF-8") convert = DocumentConverter() pdf_path = "PathToYourPDF" result = convert.convert(pdf_path)

print(result.document.export_to_markdown())

Docling version

Docling version: 2.30.0 Docling Core version: 2.28.0 Docling IBM Models version: 3.4.2 Docling Parse version: 4.0.1 Python: cpython-311 (3.11.9) Platform: macOS-14.7.4-x86_64-i386-64bit

Python version

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Python 3.11.9

[cau-git]

@yannistml I can confirm docling starts to hang on our standard test PDF in tests/data/pdf/2206.01062.pdf and produces garbage output in the end. The problem appears to be rooted in the layout postprocessing. Deeper investigation will be necessary to get to the root of it.