Magazines break the audiobook pipeline's assumptions: several unrelated
articles share a page, columns run in parallel, adverts and sidebars
interrupt body copy, and a feature routinely jumps twenty pages to its
tail. Narrating page-by-page walks out of an article mid-sentence and
into an advert, so the canonical object is the article, not the page.
core/magazine.py reconstructs articles from a flat PDF: PyMuPDF extracts
blocks with bboxes and font metrics, tesseract supplies a TSV fallback so
scanned pages join the same column grouping, blocks are classified and
ordered column-major, and articles are anchored by the parsed table of
contents with "continued on page N" tails linked back.
routes/magazine.py adds 13 endpoints. Ingestion is a restart-safe
background job. Nothing is narrated until a human approves the
boundaries; podcast generation refuses unapproved articles.
Podcast mode renders an approved article as a 2-3 host discussion using
the configured LLM and voices the user picks, alongside narration rather
than instead of it.
Verified end-to-end over HTTP on a synthetic 8-page issue: the feature
came back as pages [3, 8] with its jump tail absorbed and the advert page
excluded, and an image-only rendering recovered all 47 blocks via OCR.
44 new tests; full suite 90 passing.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
