diff --git a/docling/pipeline/vlm_pipeline.py b/docling/pipeline/vlm_pipeline.py
index 6605c1c..70a4692 100644
--- a/docling/pipeline/vlm_pipeline.py
+++ b/docling/pipeline/vlm_pipeline.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List, Optional, Union, cast
 
-# from docling_core.types import DoclingDocument
+from docling_core.types import DoclingDocument
 from docling_core.types.doc import BoundingBox, DocItem, ImageRef, PictureItem, TextItem
 from docling_core.types.doc.document import DocTagsDocument
 from PIL import Image as PILImage
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class VlmPipeline(PaginatedPipeline):
                 doctags_doc = DocTagsDocument.from_doctags_and_image_pairs(
                     doctags_list_c, image_list_c
                 )
-                conv_res.document.load_from_doctags(doctags_doc)
+                conv_res.document = DoclingDocument.load_from_doctags(doctags_doc)
 
                 # If forced backend text, replace model predicted text with backend one
                 if self.force_backend_text:
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index ec66ad9..95c0ae5 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2434,8 +2434,11 @@ files = [
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     {file = "lxml-5.4.0-cp37-cp37m-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:c5d32f5284012deaccd37da1e2cd42f081feaa76981f0eaa474351b68df813c5"},
+    {file = "lxml-5.4.0-cp37-cp37m-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:ce31158630a6ac85bddd6b830cffd46085ff90498b397bd0a259f59d27a12188"},
     {file = "lxml-5.4.0-cp37-cp37m-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:31e63621e073e04697c1b2d23fcb89991790eef370ec37ce4d5d469f40924ed6"},
     {file = "lxml-5.4.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:be2ba4c3c5b7900246a8f866580700ef0d538f2ca32535e991027bdaba944063"},
     {file = "lxml-5.4.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:09846782b1ef650b321484ad429217f5154da4d6e786636c38e434fa32e94e49"},
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+    {file = "onnxruntime-1.22.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:20bca6495d06925631e201f2b257cc37086752e8fe7b6c83a67c6509f4759bc9"},
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 ]
@@ -8040,4 +8047,4 @@ vlm = ["accelerate", "transformers", "transformers"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "123ae9256733cfb7eb3e9092c6be578dc1c535993ac2f7529832e43314fe32a4"
+content-hash = "9c243f65c2244898b695cfbd24de9848ed8207d8dba7f8f46e1c2d75a2247248"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 85c4817..edb8f7e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ packages = [{ include = "docling" }]
 ######################
 python = "^3.9"
 pydantic = "^2.0.0"
-docling-core = {version = "^2.26.0", extras = ["chunking"]}
+docling-core = {version = "^2.29.0", extras = ["chunking"]}
 docling-ibm-models = "^3.4.0"
 docling-parse = "^4.0.0"
 filetype = "^1.2.0"