[kamran-nizamani]

Summary

Fixes docling-project/docling#4341.

Some PDFs draw multiple table fields inside one PDF TJ operation. Numeric TJ adjustments are explicit source-level positioning signals, but the parser previously discarded them after moving the text cursor.

Freshly rebuilt on the current upstream main:

• retain the physical cursor displacement from numeric TJ items as transient PAGE_CELL metadata;
• treat significant forward TJ jumps as boundaries, normalized by local character advance;
• preserve the boundary when constructing text-line cells;
• keep small/backward adjustments available for normal kerning/contraction;
• add a self-contained regression for the reported -166.487 pattern plus a kerning control.

No serialized PAGE_CELL format change is introduced.

The previous draft of this fix is not the basis of this branch; this PR starts from the current upstream main.

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[PeterStaar-IBM]

@kamran-nizamani can you please fix the DCO and compilation errors?