diff --git a/docling/backend/docx_latex/omml.py b/docling/backend/docx_latex/omml.py
index 471b241a..5a5e24c1 100644
--- a/docling/backend/docx_latex/omml.py
+++ b/docling/backend/docx_latex/omml.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 """
 
 import lxml.etree as ET
-import pylatexenc  # type: ignore
+from pylatexenc.latexencode import UnicodeToLatexEncoder
 
 from docling.backend.docx_latex.latex_dict import (
     ALN,
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class oMath2Latex(Tag2Method):
     _t_dict = T
 
     __direct_tags = ("box", "sSub", "sSup", "sSubSup", "num", "den", "deg", "e")
-    u = pylatexenc.latexencode.UnicodeToLatexEncoder(
+    u = UnicodeToLatexEncoder(
         replacement_latex_protection="braces-all",
         unknown_char_policy="keep",
         unknown_char_warning=False,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 27515378..794532f9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ module = [
     "deepsearch_glm.*",
     "lxml.*",
     "bs4.*",
-    "huggingface_hub.*"
+    "huggingface_hub.*",
+    "pylatexenc.*"
 ]
 ignore_missing_imports = true