- fuse_paragraph_blocks joins a paragraph split by a column or page break into one
narration block (reader, podcast source and MP3), keeping source regions for highlighting
- language decided once per article; per-article acronym glossary (LLM classifies unknown
acronyms from context), letter-spelled acronym lists, extended DE/EN database
- core/spelling: dictionary findings (compounds, inflections, line-break hyphens, other-language
words), marked in review and listed per page/article; guarded LLM agent fixes; quality run
now includes the spelling pass
- keep suspended compound hyphens (Programmier- und) when merging regions / building layouts
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- Export the region-type picker handlers and magRunPageQuality to the page (they threw
"not defined", so the picker never opened and Find missed text / Verify OCR did nothing)
- Add a unit test that fails when an inline mag* handler is not exported
- Quality audit: pixel-level clipping check on all four box edges, duplicate-article
detection, detected full-page advertisements skipped and shown green (no manual button)
- Driving mode text is karaoke-style (whole article, current sentence and word highlighted)
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- Quality run: per-page missed-text recovery, guarded OCR re-read and a pixel audit
(uncovered ink, overlapping boxes, clipped box edges); report saved as quality_report.json
- Thumbnail grid: quality-stage colours, flag badge, live per-page indicator for every
batch step (OCR, detection, figure fixing, quality run, audio)
- Pages can be approved as advertisements (not narrated, skipped by quality run)
- Driving mode: +/-15 s, seek bar, playback speed, text and image toggles
- Plus the previously uncommitted 1.53.5 magazine/OCR work in the same tree
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Bundles this session's magazine review work: a single "Draw region" tool
replacing six preset-kind buttons; "Table" as a real, non-narrated region
type; uniform auto-OCR for every text-like drawn/re-read region with a
Tesseract fallback when the vision OCR backend is unreachable; a thumbnail
grid view and inline title editing for the article list; batch
approve/reject; standalone MP3 export with embedded title/author/album,
lyrics and cover art (adds mutagen); "Remove all boxes" for starting a
tangled page from scratch; Approve advancing straight to the next article;
a merged, sticky review toolbar; and a fix for stale image previews after
resizing a region's box.
Also fixes several character-portrait rendering biases confirmed live
across this session's DSA audiobook cast (routes/conversation.py): modern
or bald/receding hair regardless of established coverage, armored women
rendering masculinized, duplicated/malformed weapons, a ranged weapon
rendering as a firearm due to a German compound-word regex miss, an
established dwarf rendered with human proportions, and occasional extra
hands or lost non-human species in scene panels.
See CHANGELOG.md [1.43.0] for the full list.
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The preview carries each page's regions (percent of the page, type, reading
order) for the reading pass and the labelling pass, drawn over the page image
with a legend. A server restart that killed the import left it "running" for
ever; the status route now reports it as failed. v1.42.0.
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original_text is now a Block field, so paths that rebuild blocks keep it
instead of crashing. Undo snapshots are sealed with a digest of the saved
state and refused once anything else changed; actions without their own undo
point clear the Undo button. v1.41.1.
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Bulk delete/type for a click- or rectangle-selected set; every destructive
region change returns an undo token (one level, refused once something newer
happened); text inside a region that becomes a picture is folded into it.
TODO: model-based layout detection (PP-DocLayout, LayoutReader) with licence
notes. v1.39.0.
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Split at the cursor and merge-with-next keep article membership right; typed
letters in the editor never fire shortcuts; focus returns to the same row
after a redraw. v1.38.0.
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Rules sized on a real 204-page issue before writing them; each re-types
(not read aloud, reversible), none deletes. A run-on author line's sentence
becomes its own paragraph instead of being glued to "the next paragraph",
which was right in only 1 of 5 real cases. Runs on import and re-OCR, and on
demand with a layout backup. v1.37.0.
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A hand-ordered page is locked: Fix reading order, type changes and newly drawn
boxes leave it alone until Automatic order. v1.36.0.
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Columns are found from where column-width text starts, not from the whitespace
between them (loose OCR boxes shrank one gutter to 4-6 pt and a pull-quote
bridged it, collapsing page 38 into one interleaved column). Headlines get
their own band, pull-quotes are read at the end of the page. Measured over a
204-page issue: 89 sentence continuations kept vs 85.
Each review row gets a type picker (text kinds, page number, source, ad,
image) and its own delete button; text<->image conversions keep the region
in its article. Fix reading order re-reads existing issues without OCR and
leaves hand-ordered pages alone. The shared confirm dialog is now an
alertdialog for screen readers. v1.35.0.
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Adds "Edit boxes" mode to article review: drag an already-detected
region to move it, its corner handle to resize it, or press its x to
delete it -- for correcting a box the layout engine got wrong, not one
it missed entirely ("Draw it" still covers that case). Moving or
resizing opens a confirm panel; "Save" keeps the region's existing
text at its new position, and for text regions "Save & re-OCR" reads
the corrected area again and replaces the text.
New core/magazine.py update_region()/delete_region() and PATCH/DELETE
/api/magazine/{doc}/pages/{page}/regions/{block_id}. An image region
is re-cropped from the page render whenever its bbox changes, since
its saved file is exactly that crop.
Live-verified against the real ingested c't KI Wissen 2026 magazine:
add -> move -> move+re-OCR (correctly kept old text when the corrected
area had nothing readable) -> delete -> confirmed gone, repeat delete
404s.
275 tests passing.
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Adds a "Describe" action per figure in article review: sends the cropped
image to the configured vision engine (with fallback) for a type-aware
one- or two-sentence description -- a chart gets a prompt about what it
measures and its trend, a table about headings and what stands out, etc.
Editable before approval. A new "Read figure descriptions" toggle in the
reading controls speaks these where they occur; purely additive, off by
default, and a figure with no description behaves exactly as before.
New core/magazine.py describe_visual_region()/_chain() reuse the same
reliability guards as page OCR (repetition-loop detection, sentence-
boundary truncation). New routes: POST .../images/{id}/describe
(background job), PATCH .../images/{id} (manual edit), descriptions=1 on
the article-text endpoint.
Live-verified end to end against the ingested c't KI Wissen 2026
magazine. Also found and documented a real, config-dependent limitation:
the currently-configured primary vision engine is transcription-only and
returns empty content for any descriptive prompt (confirmed with three
different prompts) -- not a code defect, but description generation
needs a genuinely caption-capable engine reachable as the fallback.
251 tests passing.
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Confirmed live: re-ingesting c't KI Wissen 2026 with a local Qwen VL
engine, page 18's chart transcription degenerated into "das Produkt,
das Produkt, das Produkt, ..." repeated hundreds of times, filling the
whole response budget -- and was accepted as real region text, which
would have been narrated verbatim.
The codebase already had two narrow signatures for specific observed
failures (a formatting-instruction echo, a fabricated LaTeX loop), both
scoped to the plain-text fallback path only. Added a general detector
(_looks_like_repetition_loop): any short phrase containing a real word,
repeated 8+ times immediately back-to-back. Deliberately excludes
patterns with no letters -- a dot-leader contents line, a repeated
number sequence -- which are legitimate and must not be flagged.
Applied at both call sites: vision_ocr_page (the labelled-region path
most engines use) and _whole_page_region (the plain-text fallback).
Treated as a failed call in both, so vision_ocr_page_chain's existing
fallback (secondary engine, then tesseract) gets a real chance instead
of garbage being accepted as the page's transcription.
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Real failures found by re-inspecting a fresh re-ingest of c't KI Wissen
2026 after the previous figure-boundary-snapping release: a bar chart
was still truncated to roughly a third of its real height, and a
chart's top edge cut into an unrelated paragraph above it.
Root causes, each independently confirmed against the real page render
before fixing:
- A bar chart's bars/gridlines/axis labels rarely reach the "solid
ink" density a photo does (measured 0.25-0.5 vs the 0.55 threshold),
so the existing pass anchored only on the one fully-solid element
(the zero-line) and never grew further. Added a second, looser pass
that grows an anchor -- or the seed itself -- through any real mark
at all, fenced by the same blocked cells.
- Anchor selection ("which solid component does the seed overlap
most") was seed-size-dependent: a small seed touching only the
zero-line anchored there, but re-running the SAME function on the
box it had just produced -- now large enough to also touch a dense
axis-label strip -- picked that instead and shrank an already-good
box back down. Fixed by dilating the solid mask and labelling once,
BEFORE any seed is considered, so which components count as one
figure is a property of the page alone.
- A merged bounding box can enclose real text sitting between two
components even though neither component's own cells touched it (a
rectangle union, not the components' actual shape). Added
_trim_blocked_edges() to pull each edge back to the nearest text
wall found searching outward from the box's own centre.
- Two adjacent figures fencing each other's growth made each one's
result depend on the other's CURRENT box -- for two dark photos
sharing a caption strip, this never settled, swinging by over 100pt
call after call. snap_visual_bboxes() now re-seeds every visual on a
page from every other's last result for a bounded number of rounds,
deciding same-graphic ambiguity once up front (fenced against the
original seeds, before any iteration) so two disputed seeds can't
mutually fence each other into a tidy-looking split instead of being
recognised as the same disputed claim.
- A result is now only accepted once it reproduces itself when fed
back through the same rules (IoU-checked), and the minimum
seed/graphic overlap for repositioning a badly-offset box was
lowered slightly -- it was narrowly rejecting some real cases.
Verified against the full 204-page/147-figure document: idempotency
holds except for one confirmed non-convergent pair, which now lands on
the same deterministic answer every run instead of continuing to
drift.
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Resumes an in-progress, uncommitted change from a previous session: the
live "page image + recognised text" preview shown during ingestion was
reworked to render formatted HTML (styled headings, a figure
placeholder) instead of a plain-text dump, but was left with a
duplication bug, dead code, inline styles, and no tests.
- Fixed duplication: a figure block's own transcribed text (usually its
on-screen UI copy) was rendered as an ordinary paragraph in addition
to the new figure placeholder box. Figure/chart/table/code blocks are
now represented only by the placeholder.
- Furniture/sidebar/pullquote/ad text is shown muted instead of being
dropped with no replacement, and is never promoted to a heading
regardless of font size.
- Factored the formatting logic out of the progress closure into a
standalone, unit-tested _render_ingest_preview_html().
- Replaced dead getattr(bbox, "y0", ...) calls (bbox is always a plain
[x, y, w, h] list) with direct indexing, moved statistics/logging
imports to module level, switched manual character replacement to
html.escape(), and bounded the preview by an accumulated line budget
instead of a blind slice that could truncate mid-tag.
- Replaced inline style="..." with CSS classes matching the panel's
existing dark console treatment.
- The frontend now always uses innerHTML (every text node is escaped
server-side), dropping the startsWith('<') content-type sniffing.
- Marked the preview panel aria-hidden -- decorative, and would
otherwise churn noisily for screen reader users on top of the
adjacent progress bar.
Verified against the real c't KI Wissen 2026 layout: a figure's raw
OCR text no longer appears twice, a real headline renders as <h3>, a
footer/pull-quote render muted, and all text is correctly escaped.
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A vision OCR engine grounds a figure far less precisely than it
transcribes one. Over all 138 figure regions of a 204-page issue the
transcribed contents were right while the boxes were routinely offset,
undersized, or sitting on the neighbouring text column -- page 23's card
grid was reported at x 0.24-0.54 where the graphic runs 0.41-0.95.
snap_visual_bboxes() reduces the page render to an ink-coverage grid,
seeds a connected-component search with the engine's box, and re-joins
tiles a gutter apart so a card grid comes back as one figure. Text
blocks are excluded from the mask, which is what stops a figure
swallowing the column beside it. A candidate must be solidly inked or
framed on nearly all of its rows and columns (admitting a white-interior
screenshot), may not shrink below 30% of the seed, and reverts when two
figures land on the same graphic; anything else keeps the box it had.
Runs before the figure crop in both OCR paths, so the images shown
during playback are framed correctly too. Replaces refine_picture_
bounds(), which only recognised coloured panels and had no text fence.
Also adds "Fix figure boundaries" in review and POST
/api/magazine/{id}/figures/refine behind it, so an issue ingested before
this pass can be corrected without re-running OCR. Verified live against
c't KI Wissen 2026: 78 of 138 boxes corrected, the rest declined.
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