tts-voice-creator-clone-and.../core/magazine.py
mARTin-B78 fd1de80f83 feat(magazine): column reading order, region type picker and delete per row, fix reading order
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 11:38:33 +02:00

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"""Layout-aware magazine ingestion.
Magazines are not books: a single page routinely carries several unrelated
articles, advertisements, sidebars and pull quotes, and an article often
continues twenty pages later. Treating a page as the unit of narration
therefore produces audio that jumps mid-sentence into an advert. The unit
here is the *article*, reconstructed from classified layout blocks.
Pipeline (see architecture/magazine-ingestion.md):
PDF
-> extract_pages() native text blocks with bbox/font via PyMuPDF
-> ocr_page() tesseract TSV fallback for scanned pages
-> classify_blocks() title / deck / byline / body / caption / ...
-> assign_reading_order() column detection, then top-to-bottom per column
-> detect_contents() Stage A: locate and parse the table of contents
-> group_articles() Stage C: group blocks, link continuations
-> (human review) Stage D happens in the UI; nothing is narrated
until an article is approved.
PyMuPDF is imported lazily inside the I/O functions so that the pure geometry
and classification helpers -- which hold all the fiddly logic worth testing --
can be exercised without the native dependency or a sample PDF.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import base64
import difflib
import json
import logging
import math
import re
import statistics
import subprocess
import tempfile
import unicodedata
import requests
from core.retry import request_with_retries
from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Iterable, Sequence
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
# ── Block taxonomy ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Ordered roughly by how much they matter to narration. Only NARRATABLE types
# are ever sent to TTS; the rest are kept for display and provenance.
BLOCK_TITLE = "title"
BLOCK_HEADING = "heading"
BLOCK_DECK = "deck" # standfirst / subtitle under the headline
BLOCK_BYLINE = "byline"
BLOCK_BODY = "body"
BLOCK_CAPTION = "caption"
BLOCK_PULLQUOTE = "pullquote" # verbatim repeat of body text, blown up
BLOCK_SIDEBAR = "sidebar"
BLOCK_FURNITURE = "furniture" # running heads, folios, page numbers
BLOCK_AD = "ad"
BLOCK_FIGURE = "figure"
BLOCK_CHART = "chart"
BLOCK_TABLE = "table"
BLOCK_CODE = "code"
VISUAL_TYPES = (BLOCK_FIGURE, BLOCK_CHART, BLOCK_TABLE, BLOCK_CODE)
NARRATABLE = (BLOCK_TITLE, BLOCK_HEADING, BLOCK_DECK, BLOCK_BYLINE, BLOCK_BODY)
# Text that marks an article jumping to (or arriving from) another page.
_CONT_TO = re.compile(
r"\((?:continued|cont\.?)\s+on\s+page\s+(\d{1,4})\)"
r"|continued\s+on\s+page\s+(\d{1,4})"
r"|fortsetzung\s+auf\s+seite\s+(\d{1,4})"
r"|weiter\s+auf\s+seite\s+(\d{1,4})",
re.I,
)
_CONT_FROM = re.compile(
r"continued\s+from\s+page\s+(\d{1,4})"
r"|fortsetzung\s+von\s+seite\s+(\d{1,4})",
re.I,
)
_BYLINE = re.compile(
r"^\s*(?:by|von|text|words|story|interview)\s*[:  ]\s*(.{2,80})$",
re.I,
)
# Headings that mark a contents page, and the section headers inside one.
_TOC_MARKERS = (
"contents", "table of contents", "in this issue", "inside this issue",
"features", "departments", "columns", "regulars",
"inhalt", "inhaltsverzeichnis", "in dieser ausgabe", "rubriken", "themen",
)
# "The future of batteries ....... 18" / "The future of batteries 18"
_TOC_ENTRY = re.compile(r"^(.{3,120}?)[\s.…·•\-]{2,}(\d{1,4})\s*$")
_ADVERT_MARKERS = ("advertisement", "anzeige", "sponsored", "promotion")
@dataclass
class Block:
"""One laid-out region of a page, in PDF user-space coordinates.
bbox is [x, y, width, height] with the origin at the page's top-left, which
is what the reflowed view needs to draw a highlight over the rendered page.
"""
id: str
page: int
bbox: list[float]
type: str
text: str
reading_order: int = 0
confidence: float = 1.0
font_size: float = 0.0
font_name: str = ""
bold: bool = False
column: int = 0
region_label: str = ""
continues_from_previous_page: bool = False
source: str = "native" # "native" | "ocr" | "vision_ocr" | "vision_label"
def to_json(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
return asdict(self)
@dataclass
class Article:
id: str
title: str
author: str = ""
pages: list[int] = field(default_factory=list)
blocks: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
images: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
status: str = "detected" # detected | approved | rejected
confidence: float = 0.0
section: str = ""
continued_to: list[int] = field(default_factory=list)
audio_status: str = "none" # none | narration | podcast | both
def to_json(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
return asdict(self)
# ── Geometry helpers (pure) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
def bbox_overlaps(a: Sequence[float], b: Sequence[float], tol: float = 0.0) -> bool:
"""True when two [x, y, w, h] boxes intersect, allowing a tolerance."""
ax, ay, aw, ah = a
bx, by, bw, bh = b
return not (
ax + aw + tol < bx or bx + bw + tol < ax
or ay + ah + tol < by or by + bh + tol < ay
)
def detect_columns(blocks: Sequence[Block], page_width: float,
min_gap_ratio: float = 0.015) -> list[tuple[float, float]]:
"""Infer the column grid from where blocks are *absent*.
Magazines vary the column count per page, so a fixed grid is wrong. The
reliable signal is vertical whitespace running the height of the page: we
project every block onto the x axis, then split wherever the uncovered gap
is wider than a few percent of the page. Returns (left, right) spans.
1.5%, not the rounder 3.5% this started at: measured on a real scanned
c't magazine page, the actual gutter between two genuine columns was
only ~2.1% of the page width -- narrower than the old threshold, which
made detect_columns see one merged column and, combined with a wide
caption bridging the same gap (see assign_reading_order), produced
every block on the page landing in column=0.
"""
spans = sorted(
((b.bbox[0], b.bbox[0] + b.bbox[2]) for b in blocks if b.bbox[2] > 1),
key=lambda s: s[0],
)
if not spans:
return [(0.0, page_width)]
merged: list[list[float]] = [list(spans[0])]
min_gap = page_width * min_gap_ratio
for left, right in spans[1:]:
if left - merged[-1][1] > min_gap:
merged.append([left, right])
else:
merged[-1][1] = max(merged[-1][1], right)
return [(m[0], m[1]) for m in merged]
# Blocks that are not running text: they never define a column or split the page.
_NOT_TEXT_FLOW = (BLOCK_FURNITURE, BLOCK_AD, BLOCK_FIGURE, BLOCK_CHART, BLOCK_TABLE, BLOCK_CODE)
_QUOTE_PAIRS = (("»", "«"), ("„", "“"), ("“", "”"), ("«", "»"), ('"', '"'), ("‚", "‘"))
def is_pullquote_like(block: Block) -> bool:
"""A short display quote that repeats the article: read after the page's running text.
Types are not trusted on their own: on a real scanned page the layout model typed the actual
pull-quote ("»Wenn man hundertmal die KI nutzt…«") as body text, and typed a left-column body
paragraph as a pull-quote. A pull-quote is short and wrapped in quotation marks; a long block
is running text whatever it was labelled.
"""
text = " ".join((block.text or "").split())
if not text or len(text) > 260:
return False
if block.type == BLOCK_PULLQUOTE:
return True
return any(text.startswith(open_) and text.rstrip(".!? ").endswith(close) for open_, close in _QUOTE_PAIRS)
def column_anchors(blocks: Sequence[Block], page_width: float) -> tuple[list[float], float]:
"""Where the text columns begin, and the typical column width.
Found from the LEFT EDGES of column-width blocks, which cluster tightly, rather than from
whitespace between columns. The whitespace signal failed on a real scanned c't page: the OCR
boxes were loose enough that the gutter shrank to 4-6 points (under any sane threshold), and a
pull-quote laid across the gutter bridged the columns outright -- every block came back as
column 0 and the two columns were read interleaved. Left edges were unaffected: 25-29 and
236-240. Columns must be most of a column width apart (the heavier of two close candidates
wins), so a narrow stray box starting mid-column does not invent a column of its own. The
weight floor is deliberately low: on page 193 the left column is three paragraphs under a
screenshot, 19% of the right column's text, and a 25% floor dropped it and interleaved the page.
Measured over a whole 204-page issue, 5-15% all score the same.
"""
flow = [b for b in blocks if b.bbox[2] > 1 and b.type not in _NOT_TEXT_FLOW]
if not flow:
return [0.0], page_width
# The column width comes from running text only. Measured over every block, a page-wide photo
# and the headline pushed it to 317 points against real columns of ~210 (page 88), which made
# a plain right-column paragraph look as if it spanned two columns.
body = [b for b in flow if b.type == BLOCK_BODY] or flow
widths = sorted(b.bbox[2] for b in body)
col_w = widths[len(widths) // 2]
candidates = sorted((b for b in flow if 0.55 * col_w <= b.bbox[2] <= 1.4 * col_w), key=lambda b: b.bbox[0])
tol = page_width * 0.04
clusters: list[list[Block]] = []
for b in candidates:
if clusters and b.bbox[0] - clusters[-1][-1].bbox[0] <= tol:
clusters[-1].append(b)
else:
clusters.append([b])
if not clusters:
return [min(b.bbox[0] for b in flow)], col_w
weighted = [(min(b.bbox[0] for b in c), sum(b.bbox[3] for b in c)) for c in clusters]
heaviest = max(w for _, w in weighted)
anchors: list[tuple[float, float]] = []
for x, weight in weighted:
if weight < 0.10 * heaviest:
continue
if anchors and x - anchors[-1][0] < 0.6 * col_w:
if weight > anchors[-1][1]:
anchors[-1] = (x, weight)
continue
anchors.append((x, weight))
return [x for x, _ in anchors] or [weighted[0][0]], col_w
def assign_reading_order(blocks: list[Block], page_width: float) -> list[Block]:
"""Order blocks the way a person reads a magazine page.
1. Text spanning two or more columns (headline, standfirst) is read in turn from the top,
and splits the page into bands: everything under it comes after it.
2. Within a band, each column top to bottom, columns left to right. Sorting purely by y
interleaves parallel columns and splices one column's sentence into the next.
3. Short pull-quotes after the page's running text (they repeat the article, so reading
one mid-column interrupts a sentence), then furniture (running heads, folios).
Captions never split the page into bands: a caption under a photo in the middle of a page
would otherwise tear both columns in half.
"""
anchors, col_w = column_anchors(blocks, page_width)
# Columns never overlap: each ends where the next begins.
spans = [(a, min(a + col_w, anchors[i + 1]) if i + 1 < len(anchors) else a + col_w)
for i, a in enumerate(anchors)]
def overlap(b: Block, span: tuple[float, float]) -> float:
return max(0.0, min(b.bbox[0] + b.bbox[2], span[1]) - max(b.bbox[0], span[0]))
def column_of(b: Block) -> int:
best = max(range(len(spans)), key=lambda i: (overlap(b, spans[i]), -i))
if overlap(b, spans[best]) > 0:
return best
# Outside every column (a margin note): the nearest column by left edge.
return min(range(len(anchors)), key=lambda i: abs(b.bbox[0] - anchors[i]))
def crosses_columns(b: Block) -> bool:
if len(spans) < 2:
return b.bbox[2] > page_width * 0.6
return sum(1 for s in spans if overlap(b, s) >= 0.3 * col_w) >= 2
def own_strip(b: Block) -> bool:
"""A real headline sits in a horizontal strip of its own. A wide box lying over the column
boxes (a duplicate region covering the same text, seen on pages 78 and 154) does not."""
top, bottom = b.bbox[1], b.bbox[1] + b.bbox[3]
for other in blocks:
if other is b or other.type in _NOT_TEXT_FLOW or crosses_columns(other):
continue
shared = min(bottom, other.bbox[1] + other.bbox[3]) - max(top, other.bbox[1])
if shared > 0.3 * max(1.0, min(b.bbox[3], other.bbox[3])):
return False
return True
def splits_page(b: Block) -> bool:
"""Text across two or more columns, in a strip of its own: read before what lies under it.
Captions never split the page -- one in the middle would tear both columns."""
if b.type in _NOT_TEXT_FLOW or b.type in (BLOCK_CAPTION, BLOCK_PULLQUOTE) or is_pullquote_like(b):
return False
return crosses_columns(b) and own_strip(b)
def photo_splits_page(b: Block) -> bool:
"""A photo with no running text beside it separates the text above from the text below.
Page 176: a caption beside a screenshot at the top, the two columns under it. Without this
the caption was read between the columns and split "…zumal sie auch | helfen könnte…". A
photo inset beside column text (page 164) does not split anything. Paragraph gaps are never
used for this: in neighbouring columns they often line up, and treating them as breaks
interleaves the columns again.
"""
if b.type not in _NOT_TEXT_FLOW or b.type in (BLOCK_FURNITURE, BLOCK_AD):
return False
top, bottom = b.bbox[1], b.bbox[1] + b.bbox[3]
for other in blocks:
if other.type in _NOT_TEXT_FLOW or is_pullquote_like(other):
continue
if min(bottom, other.bbox[1] + other.bbox[3]) - max(top, other.bbox[1]) > 2.0:
return False
return True
for b in blocks:
b.column = column_of(b)
breakers = {id(b) for b in blocks if splits_page(b) or photo_splits_page(b)}
band_tops = sorted(b.bbox[1] for b in blocks if id(b) in breakers)
spanning = lambda b: id(b) in breakers # noqa: E731
def key(b: Block) -> tuple:
if b.type == BLOCK_FURNITURE:
return (3, 0, 0, round(b.bbox[1], 1), b.bbox[0])
if is_pullquote_like(b):
return (2, 0, b.column, round(b.bbox[1], 1), b.bbox[0])
# The band is the number of breakers starting at or above this block: a breaker opens its
# own band, so it follows the columns above it and precedes those below.
band = sum(1 for top in band_tops if top <= b.bbox[1] + 0.5)
if spanning(b):
return (1, band, 0, round(b.bbox[1], 1), b.bbox[0])
return (1, band, 1 + b.column, round(b.bbox[1], 1), b.bbox[0])
ordered = sorted(blocks, key=key)
for i, b in enumerate(ordered):
b.reading_order = i
return ordered
# ── Classification (pure) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def body_font_size(blocks: Iterable[Block]) -> float:
"""The document's body size: the char-weighted median of block sizes.
Weighting by length stops a page of huge display type from redefining what
"normal" means -- body copy always dominates by character count.
"""
sizes: list[float] = []
for b in blocks:
if b.font_size > 0 and b.text.strip():
sizes.extend([b.font_size] * max(1, len(b.text) // 20))
return statistics.median(sizes) if sizes else 10.0
def _normalise(text: str) -> str:
text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text or "")
return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text).strip()
def looks_like_byline(text: str) -> tuple[bool, str]:
"""Detect 'By Jane Smith' / 'Von Jane Smith', returning the name."""
m = _BYLINE.match(_normalise(text))
if not m:
return False, ""
name = m.group(1).strip(" .,;:")
# A byline is a name, not a sentence: reject anything long or punctuated.
if len(name) > 60 or name.count(" ") > 5 or name.endswith((".", "!", "?")):
return False, ""
return True, name
def find_continuation(text: str) -> tuple[int | None, int | None]:
"""Return (continues_on_page, continued_from_page) mentioned in the text."""
to_m = _CONT_TO.search(text or "")
from_m = _CONT_FROM.search(text or "")
to_page = next((int(g) for g in to_m.groups() if g), None) if to_m else None
from_page = next((int(g) for g in from_m.groups() if g), None) if from_m else None
return to_page, from_page
def strip_continuation_markers(text: str) -> str:
"""Remove '(continued on page N)' style cues before text is narrated.
These are a print layout convention -- meaningless, and slightly absurd,
spoken aloud ("open paren continued on page eight close paren"). The
layout store keeps the original text; only the narration copy is cleaned.
"""
cleaned = _CONT_TO.sub("", text or "")
cleaned = _CONT_FROM.sub("", cleaned)
return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", cleaned).strip()
def classify_blocks(blocks: list[Block], page_height: float, page_width: float,
repeated: set[str] | None = None,
image_boxes: Sequence[Sequence[float]] = (),
base_size: float | None = None) -> list[Block]:
"""Assign a semantic type to every block on one page.
Font size is judged relative to the document body size rather than in
absolute points, so the same rules hold for a pocket magazine and a
broadsheet.
base_size must be measured across the whole document, not this page: a page
carrying a full-bleed photograph and one caption has no body copy of its
own, so a per-page baseline would make that caption its own reference and
classify it as body text. It falls back to the page when not supplied.
"""
repeated = repeated or set()
base = base_size if base_size and base_size > 0 else body_font_size(blocks)
for b in blocks:
# A vision OCR engine that explicitly labeled this region (footer,
# title, page_number, caption -- see build_vision_blocks) is a more
# direct signal than any font-size heuristic can reconstruct after
# the fact; second-guessing it here would throw that away.
if b.source == "vision_label":
continue
text = _normalise(b.text)
if not text:
b.type = BLOCK_FURNITURE
b.confidence = 0.5
continue
ratio = (b.font_size / base) if base else 1.0
near_top = b.bbox[1] < page_height * 0.07
near_bottom = b.bbox[1] + b.bbox[3] > page_height * 0.93
short = len(text) <= 90
lower = text.lower()
# Running heads, folios and page numbers repeat at the same edge on
# many pages -- that repetition is what identifies them, not position
# alone, since a headline can also sit at the top.
if (near_top or near_bottom) and (text in repeated or text.isdigit()):
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_FURNITURE, 0.95
continue
if any(m in lower for m in _ADVERT_MARKERS) and short:
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_AD, 0.8
continue
is_byline, _ = looks_like_byline(text)
if is_byline:
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_BYLINE, 0.9
continue
# A caption sits directly beneath or beside a figure and is set smaller
# than body copy. Both conditions are needed: small text elsewhere is
# usually a footnote, and body-sized text under an image is often the
# article continuing past it.
if ratio < 0.92 and any(
bbox_overlaps(b.bbox, box, tol=max(page_height, page_width) * 0.02)
for box in image_boxes
):
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_CAPTION, 0.75
continue
if ratio >= 1.6 and short:
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_TITLE, 0.9 if ratio >= 2.0 else 0.7
continue
if 1.18 <= ratio < 1.6 and len(text) <= 300:
# Display-sized text mid-column is a pull quote; at the head of a
# page it is the deck introducing the article.
b.type = BLOCK_DECK if b.bbox[1] < page_height * 0.45 else BLOCK_PULLQUOTE
b.confidence = 0.6
continue
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_BODY, 0.85
return blocks
def mark_advert_pages(blocks: list[Block]) -> list[Block]:
"""Spread an explicit advertisement label across its whole page.
Publishers print "ADVERTISEMENT" once to disclaim the page, not each block
on it. Without this the ad's own display type reads as a headline and the
page gets claimed by whichever feature precedes it.
"""
# A small ad label beside substantial prose does not establish a full-page ad.
if any(b.type == BLOCK_BODY and len(b.text) > 160 for b in blocks):
return blocks
if not any(b.type == BLOCK_AD and b.source not in ("vision_label", "llm_ad", "llm_layout") for b in blocks):
return blocks
for b in blocks:
if b.type != BLOCK_FURNITURE:
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_AD, 0.8
return blocks
def mark_pullquotes(blocks: list[Block]) -> list[Block]:
"""Demote display text that merely repeats nearby body copy.
Narrating a pull quote reads the same sentence twice, a few seconds apart,
which sounds like a skipping record.
"""
body_text = _normalise(" ".join(
b.text for b in blocks if b.type == BLOCK_BODY
)).lower()
if not body_text:
return blocks
for b in blocks:
if b.type not in (BLOCK_DECK, BLOCK_PULLQUOTE):
continue
probe = _normalise(b.text).lower().strip(' "“”«»')
if len(probe) > 25 and probe in body_text:
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_PULLQUOTE, 0.9
return blocks
def mark_sidebars(blocks: list[Block], page_width: float,
narrow_ratio: float = 0.7) -> list[Block]:
"""Reclassify body text sitting in an anomalously narrow column as a
sidebar, so it is excluded from an article's narration by default rather
than requiring a manual exclusion in review every time.
Geometry-only, like the rest of this module's classification: a sidebar
or pull-out box is reliably narrower than the page's regular column grid
(a boxed insert set off from the main flow), which needs no image
analysis to detect. This is a heuristic, not a certainty -- a genuinely
narrow-column page design (or a caption sitting in its own slim column)
can trigger a false positive, which is exactly why review still shows
every sidebar block and lets it be included with one click rather than
silently discarding it.
Full-width elements (a headline spanning the whole page) are excluded
from the column analysis here, the same way assign_reading_order treats
them specially: left in, one would bridge two genuinely separate columns
into a single merged span (its bbox overlaps both), hiding a real narrow
sidebar column entirely. This computes its own column partition rather
than trusting `.column` from assign_reading_order, since that partition
was built from the FULL block list and its indices would not line up
with this narrower one.
"""
candidates = [b for b in blocks if b.bbox[2] <= page_width * 0.6]
columns = detect_columns(candidates, page_width)
if len(columns) < 2:
return blocks
widths = [right - left for left, right in columns]
widest = max(widths)
narrow_spans = [columns[i] for i, w in enumerate(widths) if w < widest * narrow_ratio]
if not narrow_spans:
return blocks
for b in blocks:
if b.type != BLOCK_BODY or b.bbox[2] > page_width * 0.6:
continue
centre = b.bbox[0] + b.bbox[2] / 2
if any(left <= centre <= right for left, right in narrow_spans):
b.type, b.confidence = BLOCK_SIDEBAR, 0.6
return blocks
def find_repeated_lines(pages_text: Sequence[Sequence[str]],
threshold: float = 0.25) -> set[str]:
"""Lines appearing near the same edge on many pages: page furniture."""
if not pages_text:
return set()
counts: dict[str, int] = {}
for lines in pages_text:
for line in {_normalise(t) for t in lines if _normalise(t)}:
counts[line] = counts.get(line, 0) + 1
minimum = max(3, int(len(pages_text) * threshold))
# Long lines that recur are more likely a repeated standfirst than a
# running head, so cap the length.
return {t for t, n in counts.items() if n >= minimum and len(t) <= 80}
def looks_like_real_title(text: str) -> bool:
"""Guards the headline-fallback article start against OCR noise.
A stray misread character or chart-axis fragment ("I", "@)X", ". |") can
classify as BLOCK_TITLE by size alone; without this it would spawn its
own article. Confirmed live on a scanned magazine: single-character OCR
artifacts at running-footer size otherwise start empty articles.
"""
letters = sum(1 for c in (text or "") if c.isalpha())
return letters >= 4
def _digit_stripped(text: str) -> str:
return re.sub(r"\d+", "", text or "")
def cluster_running_furniture(blocks: Sequence[Block], page_heights: dict[int, float],
similarity: float = 0.6, min_count: int = 3) -> None:
"""Reclassify near-edge blocks that recur across pages as furniture, even
when OCR reads the running header/footer differently each time.
find_repeated_lines() needs an EXACT match, which OCR defeats: a magazine
tag like "c't Wissen 2026" came back as "cE KI-WISSEN", "ce Wissen 2136",
"cA Wissen 2036" across different pages of the same scan -- confirmed
live, and the dominant cause of a 28-page scan producing 26 near-1-per-
page "articles" instead of grouping around real headlines. Only the page
number reliably varies page to page, so digit-stripped fuzzy similarity
catches what exact matching misses. Mutates blocks in place.
"""
candidates: list[tuple[Block, str]] = []
for b in blocks:
if b.type in (BLOCK_FURNITURE, BLOCK_AD):
continue
text = _normalise(b.text)
if not text or len(text) > 80:
continue
height = page_heights.get(b.page, 842.0)
near_top = b.bbox[1] < height * 0.07
near_bottom = b.bbox[1] + b.bbox[3] > height * 0.93
if not (near_top or near_bottom):
continue
key = _digit_stripped(text).lower().strip()
if len(key) < 3:
continue
candidates.append((b, key))
assigned = [False] * len(candidates)
for i, (_, key_i) in enumerate(candidates):
if assigned[i]:
continue
cluster = [i]
for j in range(i + 1, len(candidates)):
if assigned[j]:
continue
if difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, key_i, candidates[j][1]).ratio() >= similarity:
cluster.append(j)
if len(cluster) >= min_count:
for idx in cluster:
candidates[idx][0].type = BLOCK_FURNITURE
candidates[idx][0].confidence = 0.75
assigned[idx] = True
# ── Stage A: the table of contents ───────────────────────────────────────────
def score_contents_page(lines: Sequence[str]) -> float:
"""How strongly one page looks like a table of contents (0..1)."""
if not lines:
return 0.0
joined = " ".join(lines).lower()
marker_hits = sum(1 for m in _TOC_MARKERS if m in joined)
entry_hits = sum(1 for line in lines if _TOC_ENTRY.match(_normalise(line)))
# Either signal alone is weak: a feature can be titled "Features", and a
# dotted leader appears in ordinary tables too.
score = min(1.0, marker_hits * 0.25) * 0.4 + min(1.0, entry_hits / 6) * 0.6
return round(score, 3)
def parse_contents(lines: Sequence[str]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Pull (title, page, section) entries out of a contents page."""
entries: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
section = ""
for raw in lines:
line = _normalise(raw)
if not line:
continue
low = line.lower().strip(": ")
if low in _TOC_MARKERS and low not in ("contents", "inhalt"):
section = line.strip(": ")
continue
m = _TOC_ENTRY.match(line)
if not m:
continue
title, page = m.group(1).strip(" .…·•-"), int(m.group(2))
if len(title) < 3 or page <= 0 or page > 2000:
continue
entries.append({"title": title, "page": page, "section": section})
return entries
# ── Stage C: grouping blocks into articles ───────────────────────────────────
def _title_key(text: str) -> str:
return re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", "", _normalise(text).lower())
def group_articles(blocks: Sequence[Block],
contents: Sequence[dict[str, Any]],
page_count: int,
skip_pages: set[int] | None = None) -> list[Article]:
"""Group ordered blocks into articles.
The contents listing, when present, is the strongest available signal: it
states both the title and the starting page, so it anchors boundaries that
layout alone would guess at. Pages not claimed by any listing still get
articles from their own headlines, because a contents page never lists
everything (and some issues have no contents page at all).
"""
by_page: dict[int, list[Block]] = {}
for b in blocks:
by_page.setdefault(b.page, []).append(b)
for page_blocks in by_page.values():
page_blocks.sort(key=lambda b: b.reading_order)
# Where does each article start? A contents entry pins a start page; a
# title block on a page with no entry starts one there.
starts: dict[int, dict[str, Any]] = {}
for entry in contents:
page = entry["page"]
if 1 <= page <= page_count:
starts.setdefault(page, {
"title": entry["title"],
"section": entry.get("section", ""),
"confidence": 0.9,
})
skip_pages = skip_pages or set()
for page in sorted(by_page):
if page in starts or page in skip_pages:
continue
# A page carrying nothing but advertising and page furniture has no
# article on it -- the cover and the ad pages otherwise each become a
# spurious entry the reviewer has to reject by hand on every issue.
if not any(b.type in NARRATABLE and b.type != BLOCK_TITLE
for b in by_page[page]):
continue
titles = [b for b in by_page[page] if b.type == BLOCK_TITLE
and looks_like_real_title(b.text)]
if titles:
starts[page] = {
"title": _normalise(titles[0].text),
"section": "",
"confidence": 0.55,
}
if not starts:
return []
ordered_starts = sorted(starts)
articles: list[Article] = []
for i, start_page in enumerate(ordered_starts):
end_page = (ordered_starts[i + 1] - 1) if i + 1 < len(ordered_starts) else page_count
info = starts[start_page]
art = Article(
id=f"article-{i + 1:03d}",
title=info["title"],
section=info.get("section", ""),
confidence=info["confidence"],
)
for page in range(start_page, end_page + 1):
page_blocks = by_page.get(page, [])
if not page_blocks:
continue
# Only claim a page the article actually occupies. A full-page
# advert sitting between two features starts no article of its
# own, so it would otherwise be swallowed by the preceding one and
# highlighted as part of it in the PDF view.
#
# A sidebar/pull-out box (mark_sidebars) is excluded the same way
# advert text is: automatically kept out of narration by default,
# rather than requiring a manual exclusion in review every time.
# It still shows in review (blocksForPages lists every block on
# the article's pages) and can be ticked back in with one click.
contributed = False
for b in page_blocks:
if b.type in (BLOCK_FURNITURE, BLOCK_AD, BLOCK_SIDEBAR, BLOCK_PULLQUOTE, *VISUAL_TYPES):
continue
contributed = True
art.blocks.append(b.id)
if b.type == BLOCK_BYLINE and not art.author:
_, name = looks_like_byline(b.text)
art.author = name
to_page, _ = find_continuation(b.text)
if to_page and to_page not in art.continued_to:
art.continued_to.append(to_page)
if contributed:
art.pages.append(page)
# An article the pipeline could not fill with body copy is almost
# certainly a false start (an advert headline, a section divider).
has_body = any(
b.type == BLOCK_BODY for b in blocks if b.id in set(art.blocks)
)
if not has_body:
art.confidence = round(art.confidence * 0.4, 3)
articles.append(art)
return _link_continuations(articles, page_count)
def _link_continuations(articles: list[Article], page_count: int) -> list[Article]:
"""Attach jump pages ('continued on page 88') to their originating article.
Without this, the tail of a feature parked at the back of the issue is
orphaned and gets narrated as a separate stub article that begins
mid-sentence.
"""
by_start = {a.pages[0]: a for a in articles if a.pages}
for art in articles:
for target in art.continued_to:
if not (1 <= target <= page_count):
continue
tail = by_start.get(target)
if tail is None or tail is art or tail.status == "merged":
continue
# Only absorb a genuine continuation: a real article listed in the
# contents keeps its own identity.
if tail.confidence >= 0.9:
continue
art.pages.extend(p for p in tail.pages if p not in art.pages)
art.blocks.extend(tail.blocks)
art.images.extend(tail.images)
tail.status = "merged"
return [a for a in articles if a.status != "merged"]
def estimate_listen_seconds(blocks: Sequence[Block], article: Article,
words_per_minute: float = 155.0) -> int:
"""Rough narration length, for the 'estimated listening time' column."""
ids = set(article.blocks)
words = sum(
len(b.text.split()) for b in blocks
if b.id in ids and b.type in NARRATABLE
)
return int(round(words / words_per_minute * 60)) if words else 0
# ── PDF and OCR I/O ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def _require_fitz():
"""Import PyMuPDF under its current name, falling back to the old alias.
1.24 renamed the module to ``pymupdf``; ``fitz`` still resolves but emits a
deprecation warning and is slated for removal.
"""
try:
import pymupdf
return pymupdf
except ImportError:
pass
try:
import fitz
return fitz
except ImportError as exc: # pragma: no cover - environment guard
raise RuntimeError(
"PyMuPDF is required for magazine ingestion; install pymupdf (pip install pymupdf) "
"or rebuild your Docker container."
) from exc
# Labels a vision OCR engine may return for a region, mapped onto the same
# taxonomy tesseract/native blocks use. Anything else ("text", or a label the
# engine invents) is treated as ambiguous body copy and still goes through
# classify_blocks() for finer distinctions (byline, deck, ...).
_VISION_LABEL_TYPES = {
# Headlines / Titles / Headers
"title": BLOCK_TITLE,
"headline": BLOCK_TITLE,
"article_headline": BLOCK_TITLE,
"main_title": BLOCK_TITLE,
"heading": BLOCK_HEADING,
"header": BLOCK_HEADING,
"section_heading": BLOCK_HEADING,
"subheading": BLOCK_HEADING,
"subtitle": BLOCK_HEADING,
"deck": BLOCK_HEADING,
# Paragraphs / Text / Body
"paragraph": BLOCK_BODY,
"body": BLOCK_BODY,
"content": BLOCK_BODY,
"list": BLOCK_BODY,
"list_item": BLOCK_BODY,
"author": BLOCK_BYLINE,
"byline": BLOCK_BYLINE,
# Sidenotes / Sidebars / Quotes / Footnotes
"sidenote": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"sidebar": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"aside_text": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"aside": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"footnote": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"footnotes": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"note": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"commentary": BLOCK_SIDEBAR,
"quote": BLOCK_PULLQUOTE,
"pullquote": BLOCK_PULLQUOTE,
# Page numbers / Furniture / Folios / Sources
"page_number": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"pagenumber": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"page": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"header_text": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"footer": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"running_header": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"running_footer": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"folio": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"head": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"source": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"sources": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"citation": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
"citations": BLOCK_FURNITURE,
# Images / Figures / Photos
"image": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"figure": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"picture": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"photo": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"illustration": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"non_text": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"nontext": BLOCK_FIGURE,
"drawing": BLOCK_FIGURE,
# Graphics / Charts / Diagrams / Maps / Treemaps
"chart": BLOCK_CHART,
"graphic": BLOCK_CHART,
"infographic": BLOCK_CHART,
"statistics": BLOCK_CHART,
"diagram": BLOCK_CHART,
"map": BLOCK_CHART,
"treemap": BLOCK_CHART,
"plot": BLOCK_CHART,
"flowchart": BLOCK_CHART,
# Tables
"table": BLOCK_TABLE,
"grid": BLOCK_TABLE,
"matrix": BLOCK_TABLE,
# Code / Formulas / Math
"code": BLOCK_CODE,
"code_block": BLOCK_CODE,
"formula": BLOCK_CODE,
"equation": BLOCK_CODE,
"math": BLOCK_CODE,
# Captions
"caption": BLOCK_CAPTION,
"image_caption": BLOCK_CAPTION,
"figure_caption": BLOCK_CAPTION,
"table_caption": BLOCK_CAPTION,
# Ads
"advertisement": BLOCK_AD,
"advert": BLOCK_AD,
"ad": BLOCK_AD,
}
# One label + its four-number bbox, anchoring a region; content runs until
# the next such marker. Tolerates DeepSeek-OCR / Unlimited-OCR / PaddleOCR shapes
# like "text [241, 90, 588, 249]", "<|ref|>title<|/ref|><|det|>[[x0, y0, x1, y1]]<|/det|>", etc.
_VISION_REGION = re.compile(
r"(?m)"
r"(?:<\|ref\|>\s*(?P<ref>[^<]+?)\s*<\|/ref\|>\s*)?"
r"(?:<\|det\|>\s*)?"
r"(?P<label>[a-zA-Z0-9_\- ]+?)\s*"
r"\[\[?\s*(?P<x0>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<y0>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<x1>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<y1>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*\]\]?"
r"(?:\s*<\|/det\|>)?"
r"\s*:?"
)
_UNLIMITED_OCR_REGION = re.compile(
r"(?m)"
r"(?:<\|ref\|>\s*(?P<ref>[^<]+?)\s*<\|/ref\|>\s*)?"
r"<\|det\|>\s*"
r"(?P<label>[a-zA-Z0-9_\- ]+?)\s*"
r"(?:\[\[?\s*(?P<x0>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<y0>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<x1>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*,\s*(?P<y1>-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*\]\]?)?"
r"\s*<\|/det\|>"
)
def ocr_quality_score(text: str) -> float:
"""Rough plausibility that OCR/extracted text is real prose, 0..1."""
text = (text or "").strip()
if not text:
return 0.0
words = text.split()
if not words:
return 0.0
def _stripped(w: str) -> str:
return w.strip(".,;:!?()[]{}\"'|-–—")
garbage = sum(1 for w in words if not _stripped(w))
letters = sum(1 for c in text if c.isalpha())
total = len(text.replace(" ", "")) or 1
score = (letters / total) * (1.0 - garbage / len(words))
return round(max(0.0, min(1.0, score)), 3)
def estimate_font_size_from_area(width: float, height: float, text_length: int,
char_width_ratio: float = 0.5,
line_height_ratio: float = 1.2) -> float:
"""Estimate a representative font size for a paragraph-level box."""
if width <= 0 or height <= 0 or text_length <= 0:
return 0.0
denom = text_length * char_width_ratio * line_height_ratio
return (width * height / denom) ** 0.5 if denom > 0 else 0.0
def parse_vision_ocr_regions(raw: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Parse a vision OCR engine's labeled-region transcription."""
matches = list(_VISION_REGION.finditer(raw or ""))
regions = []
for i, m in enumerate(matches):
gd = m.groupdict()
raw_label = (gd.get("ref") or gd.get("label") or "text").strip().strip("[]")
label = raw_label.lower().replace("-", "_").replace(" ", "_")
try:
x0, y0, x1, y1 = (float(gd[k]) for k in ("x0", "y0", "x1", "y1"))
except (ValueError, TypeError):
continue
start = m.end()
end = matches[i + 1].start() if i + 1 < len(matches) else len(raw or "")
text = (raw or "")[start:end].strip()
if (not text and _VISION_LABEL_TYPES.get(label) not in VISUAL_TYPES) or x1 <= x0 or y1 <= y0:
continue
regions.append({
"label": label,
"bbox": [x0, y0, x1 - x0, y1 - y0],
"text": text,
})
return regions
def parse_unlimited_ocr_regions(raw: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Parse Unlimited-OCR's native ``<|det|>`` document-layout markers."""
matches = list(_UNLIMITED_OCR_REGION.finditer(raw or ""))
regions = []
for i, match in enumerate(matches):
gd = match.groupdict()
raw_label = (gd.get("ref") or gd.get("label") or "").strip().strip("[]")
label = raw_label.lower().replace("-", "_").replace(" ", "_")
try:
x0, y0, x1, y1 = (float(gd[k]) for k in ("x0", "y0", "x1", "y1"))
except (ValueError, TypeError):
continue
if x1 <= x0 or y1 <= y0:
continue
start = match.end()
end = matches[i + 1].start() if i + 1 < len(matches) else len(raw or "")
text = (raw or "")[start:end].strip()
if label in {"non_text", "nontext", "photo", "drawing", "picture"}:
label = "image"
elif label in {"map", "graphic", "infographic", "diagram", "treemap", "statistics"}:
label = "chart"
if not text and _VISION_LABEL_TYPES.get(label) not in VISUAL_TYPES:
continue
regions.append({
"label": label,
"bbox": [x0, y0, x1 - x0, y1 - y0],
"text": text,
"native_normalized_bbox": True,
})
return regions
def _whole_page_region(content: str, png_path: Path) -> list[dict[str, Any]] | None:
"""Fallback for an engine that answers with plain text and no coordinate
markers at all (confirmed live: KDL Frontier Parser nano -- fast, but no
"label [x0,y0,x1,y1]" structure the way ocr-baidu-unlimited-ocr gives).
Treated as one ambiguous "text" region spanning the whole page: real
text with no layout information beats no text at all, but it does mean
column/reading-order structure is lost for that page -- classify_blocks
still runs on it (source="vision_ocr", not "vision_label"), same as any
other ambiguous region.
"""
text = (content or "").strip()
# A vision model can occasionally echo a formatting instruction instead
# of reading the page. The observed failure is a long sequence of literal
# ``\\n `equation` `` tokens (not real line breaks), often prefixed with
# "Do not use special symbols". It scores highly under the generic
# letter-ratio heuristic because "equation" is a normal word, so reject
# this distinct response shape before turning it into a page-sized text
# block. Returning None lets vision_ocr_page_chain try the configured
# fallback engine, then preserves the existing OCR if both fail.
escaped_newlines = len(re.findall(r"\\n", text))
equation_tokens = len(re.findall(r"`?\s*\\?equation\b", text, re.IGNORECASE))
prompt_echo = "do not use special symbols" in text.lower()
# Another observed loop starts with genuine page text and then repeats a
# fabricated LaTex fragment (``\\therefore m = \\frac{3}{11}``) until the
# response limit. It has no instruction echo or `equation` token, so it
# needs its own narrow signature. Requiring both uncommon controls many
# times avoids rejecting ordinary prose that merely mentions one formula.
therefore_tokens = len(re.findall(r"\\therefore\b", text, re.IGNORECASE))
fraction_tokens = len(re.findall(r"\\frac\s*\{", text, re.IGNORECASE))
latex_loop = therefore_tokens >= 4 and fraction_tokens >= 4
if (escaped_newlines >= 4 and equation_tokens >= 4) or (
prompt_echo and escaped_newlines >= 2 and equation_tokens >= 2
) or latex_loop:
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Vision OCR returned a repeated formatting artifact; discarding response")
return None
# The two signatures above are narrow matches for specific observed
# failures; this is the general case -- any short phrase repeated many
# times back-to-back (see vision_ocr_page's docstring on the same check).
if _looks_like_repetition_loop(text):
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Vision OCR returned a repeated phrase loop; discarding response")
return None
if len(text) < 20 or ocr_quality_score(text) < _VISION_QUALITY_THRESHOLD:
return None
try:
from PIL import Image
with Image.open(png_path) as im:
width, height = im.size
except Exception:
return None
return [{"label": "text", "bbox": [0.0, 0.0, float(width), float(height)], "text": text}]
# A short phrase repeating many times back-to-back, unlike the two narrow
# formatting-echo signatures above, is not specific to one prompt or one
# engine -- it is the generic decoding-loop failure any local vision model
# can fall into on a busy chart or graphic. Confirmed live: a Qwen VL engine
# transcribing a population chart produced "das Produkt, das Produkt, das
# Produkt, ..." several hundred times over, filling the whole response
# budget. Genuine text essentially never repeats an exact phrase this many
# times consecutively, so this is a safe, general trigger rather than
# another one-off signature -- but a leader-dot table of contents line
# ("......................") legitimately repeats a short unit too, which is
# why the repeated unit must contain a real word, not just punctuation.
_REPETITION_RUN = re.compile(r"(.{2,80}?)\1{7,}", re.DOTALL)
_REPETITION_WORD = re.compile(r"[A-Za-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ]{2,}")
def _looks_like_repetition_loop(text: str) -> bool:
"""True when `text` degenerates into the same short phrase repeated
immediately back-to-back many times -- see vision_ocr_page."""
return any(_REPETITION_WORD.search(m.group(1))
for m in _REPETITION_RUN.finditer(text or ""))
def vision_ocr_page(png_path: Path, base_url: str, model: str,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> list[dict[str, Any]] | None:
"""OCR one rendered page with a connected vision-capable OCR engine.
Returns None on any failure (unreachable engine, timeout, unusable
output) so the caller can fall back to the next engine or tesseract --
this must never be the reason ingestion fails outright. Confirmed live
against ocr-baidu-unlimited-ocr: markedly more accurate German text than
tesseract on the same scanned page, and it labels running headers/
footers and page numbers directly, which is the dominant source of the
over-fragmentation cluster_running_furniture() otherwise has to recover
after the fact from noisy OCR variants of the same repeating line.
"""
try:
image_b64 = base64.b64encode(png_path.read_bytes()).decode("ascii")
except OSError:
return None
# Settings also accept a bare server address; OpenAI-compatible servers
# expose their API under /v1. Preserve explicit proxy/API prefixes.
base_url = base_url.strip().rstrip("/")
if not urlsplit(base_url).path:
base_url += "/v1"
unlimited_ocr = "unlimited-ocr" in model.lower()
prompt = "<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown." if unlimited_ocr else (
"Recognise the page layout and transcribe visible text verbatim. "
"Return one region per headline, title, paragraph, sidenote, sidebar, "
"image, figure, chart, graphic, map, diagram, table, code box, "
"caption, header, footer, or page number. Use the format "
"label [x0, y0, x1, y1]transcription with pixel coordinates in the "
"supplied image, one region starting on each new line. Labels: "
"title, heading, paragraph, sidenote, sidebar, image, figure, chart, "
"graphic, map, table, code, caption, header, footer, page_number. "
"Enclose a whole chart, diagram, map, graphic, or table in one box, "
"not separate axis labels or cells. Preserve table rows and columns "
"as Markdown and code indentation and line breaks. Images, figures, and "
"charts may have empty transcription; do not invent descriptions. "
"Do not merge neighbouring articles or include commentary."
)
payload = {
"model": model,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "text", "text": prompt},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {
"url": f"data:image/png;base64,{image_b64}",
}},
]}],
"max_tokens": 4000,
"temperature": 0.0,
}
# Unlimited-OCR's official vLLM recipe requires its per-request
# NGramPerReqLogitsProcessor settings. The container already exposes the
# processor, but without these fields it does nothing and the model can
# run into a repeated chart/formula loop. Keep the vendor-specific fields
# off generic OpenAI-compatible vision engines.
if unlimited_ocr:
payload.update({
"skip_special_tokens": False,
"ngram_size": 35,
"window_size": 128,
"images_config": {"image_mode": "gundam"},
})
try:
resp = request_with_retries(
"POST", f"{base_url.rstrip('/')}/chat/completions",
json=payload, timeout=timeout, attempts=2,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
content = resp.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as exc:
status = getattr(getattr(exc, "response", None), "status_code", None)
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Vision OCR request failed (%s%s)",
type(exc).__name__, f", HTTP {status}" if status else "")
return None
except (ValueError, KeyError, IndexError, TypeError):
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Vision OCR returned an invalid completion response")
return None
if not isinstance(content, str):
return None
if _looks_like_repetition_loop(content):
# Worse than no response at all: a repeated phrase baked into a
# block's text would be narrated verbatim. Treating it as a failed
# call gives the existing fallback chain (vision_ocr_page_chain) a
# real shot instead.
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Vision OCR returned a repeated phrase loop; discarding response")
return None
regions = parse_unlimited_ocr_regions(content) if unlimited_ocr else parse_vision_ocr_regions(content)
if regions and unlimited_ocr:
# Native markers use the model input's 0–999-ish coordinate space;
# blocks downstream expect coordinates of the rendered PNG.
try:
from PIL import Image
with Image.open(png_path) as im:
width, height = im.size
for region in regions:
if region.pop("native_normalized_bbox", False):
x, y, w, h = region["bbox"]
region["bbox"] = [x / 1000 * width, y / 1000 * height,
w / 1000 * width, h / 1000 * height]
except Exception:
return None
return regions or _whole_page_region(content, png_path)
def vision_ocr_page_chain(png_path: Path,
engines: Sequence[tuple[str, str]],
timeout: float = 150.0) -> list[dict[str, Any]] | None:
"""Try each configured vision OCR engine in order, first success wins.
A primary engine (labeled regions, best quality) with a faster or
differently-shaped secondary as a real fallback -- not just tesseract --
when the primary is unreachable or times out. Engines are (url, model)
pairs; empty/blank entries are skipped.
"""
for url, model in engines:
if not (url and model):
continue
regions = vision_ocr_page(png_path, url, model, timeout=timeout)
if regions:
return regions
return None
# One line per visual type -- a chart needs "what trend", a table needs
# "what's listed", not the generic "what's shown" that suits a photo. Every
# variant still asks for one or two plain sentences: this is read aloud
# between the surrounding paragraphs, not a caption someone reads at their
# own pace, so it has to stay short regardless of how much detail the image
# could support.
_DESCRIBE_PROMPTS = {
BLOCK_CHART: (
"This image is a chart or graph from a magazine article. In one or "
"two plain sentences, for a listener who cannot see it, describe "
"what kind of chart it is, what it measures, and the general trend "
"or most notable values. Do not invent a number you cannot actually "
"read in the image. No markdown, no preamble -- the description "
"text only."
),
BLOCK_TABLE: (
"This image is a table from a magazine article. In one or two "
"plain sentences, for a listener who cannot see it, summarise what "
"it lists -- do not read out individual cells. No markdown, no "
"preamble -- the description text only."
),
BLOCK_CODE: (
"This image is a code listing or code box from a magazine article. "
"In one plain sentence, for a listener who cannot see it, describe "
"what it appears to show (the language and general purpose) -- do "
"not read the code line by line. No markdown, no preamble -- the "
"description text only."
),
BLOCK_FIGURE: (
"This image is a photo or illustration from a magazine article. In "
"one or two plain sentences, for a listener who cannot see it, "
"describe what it shows, including any text visible in the image "
"itself. No markdown, no preamble -- the description text only."
),
}
def describe_visual_region(image_path: Path, region_type: str, base_url: str,
model: str, timeout: float = 90.0) -> str | None:
"""Describe one already-cropped figure/chart/table/code image in plain
language, for optional inclusion in an article's spoken narration.
A deliberately different task from vision_ocr_page(): that prompt
explicitly forbids inventing a description ("Images, figures, and
charts may have empty transcription; do not invent descriptions") --
correct for transcription, wrong here, where a description is exactly
what is wanted. Reuses the same engine (already vision-capable and
already configured) with its own prompt instead, and the same
reliability guards -- a repeated-phrase decoding loop is exactly as
possible describing a busy chart as transcribing one.
Returns None on any failure (unreachable engine, timeout, empty or
degenerate response) so the caller can try a fallback engine or leave
the figure without a description -- never partway through one.
"""
try:
image_b64 = base64.b64encode(image_path.read_bytes()).decode("ascii")
except OSError:
return None
base_url = base_url.strip().rstrip("/")
if not urlsplit(base_url).path:
base_url += "/v1"
prompt = _DESCRIBE_PROMPTS.get(region_type, _DESCRIBE_PROMPTS[BLOCK_FIGURE])
unlimited_ocr = "unlimited-ocr" in model.lower()
payload = {
"model": model,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "text", "text": prompt},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {
"url": f"data:image/png;base64,{image_b64}",
}},
]}],
"max_tokens": 300,
"temperature": 0.2,
}
if unlimited_ocr:
# Same anti-repetition settings as vision_ocr_page -- same model,
# same decoding-loop risk, regardless of the prompt asked of it.
payload.update({
"skip_special_tokens": False,
"ngram_size": 35,
"window_size": 128,
"images_config": {"image_mode": "gundam"},
})
try:
resp = request_with_retries(
"POST", f"{base_url.rstrip('/')}/chat/completions",
json=payload, timeout=timeout, attempts=2,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
content = resp.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as exc:
status = getattr(getattr(exc, "response", None), "status_code", None)
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Figure description request failed (%s%s)",
type(exc).__name__, f", HTTP {status}" if status else "")
return None
except (ValueError, KeyError, IndexError, TypeError):
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Figure description returned an invalid completion response")
return None
if not isinstance(content, str):
return None
text = content.strip().strip("`").strip()
if not text or len(text) < 8:
return None
if _looks_like_repetition_loop(text):
logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Figure description returned a repeated phrase loop; discarding response")
return None
# A long response is either the model ignoring "one or two sentences" or
# a loop this pass's own repetition check didn't happen to catch --
# either way, narration wants a short aside, not a paragraph. Cut at a
# sentence boundary rather than mid-word.
limit = 600
if len(text) > limit:
cut = text.rfind(". ", 0, limit)
text = text[:cut + 1] if cut > limit // 2 else text[:limit].rstrip() + "…"
return text
def describe_visual_region_chain(image_path: Path, region_type: str,
engines: Sequence[tuple[str, str]],
timeout: float = 90.0) -> str | None:
"""Try each configured vision engine in order, first usable description
wins -- same shape as vision_ocr_page_chain."""
for url, model in engines:
if not (url and model):
continue
text = describe_visual_region(image_path, region_type, url, model, timeout=timeout)
if text:
return text
return None
def build_vision_blocks(regions: list[dict[str, Any]], page_no: int,
scale_x: float, id_prefix: str) -> list[Block]:
"""Turn one page's vision OCR regions into Blocks.
A label the engine gives directly (footer/page_number/header/title/
caption) is trusted outright -- source="vision_label" makes
classify_blocks() skip it rather than second-guess it from font size,
which vision OCR does not reliably provide (see estimate_font_size_from_
area's docstring: it is a paragraph-area estimate, not a measurement).
An unrecognised or "text" label is left ambiguous (BLOCK_BODY,
source="vision_ocr") and still goes through the normal classification
pass for finer distinctions such as byline or deck.
"""
out = []
for i, region in enumerate(regions):
x, y, w, h = (v * scale_x for v in region["bbox"])
label = region["label"]
text = region["text"]
mapped = _VISION_LABEL_TYPES.get(label)
if mapped is not None:
block = Block(
id=f"{id_prefix}{page_no:04d}-v{i:03d}",
page=page_no, bbox=[x, y, w, h], type=mapped, text=text,
confidence=0.85, source="vision_label",
)
else:
block = Block(
id=f"{id_prefix}{page_no:04d}-v{i:03d}",
page=page_no, bbox=[x, y, w, h], type=BLOCK_BODY, text=text,
confidence=0.8,
font_size=estimate_font_size_from_area(w, h, len(text)),
source="vision_ocr",
)
block.region_label = label
out.append(block)
return out
# ── Figure bounds from the page render ───────────────────────────────────────
#
# A vision OCR engine grounds a figure far less precisely than it transcribes
# one: on c't KI Wissen 2026 the label and the read-out contents were right
# while the four numbers landed on the neighbouring text column at two thirds
# of the real size (page 23), or covered only the top third of a full-width
# illustration (page 20). The rendered page itself carries the answer -- a
# photo, a chart or a UI screenshot is a densely inked rectangle fenced off
# from the type area by white gutters -- so the model's box is used only to
# say WHICH graphic is meant and the render says where that graphic ends.
#
# Two passes over the render, not one. A strict "solid ink" pass finds and
# repositions onto a densely inked anchor -- a photo, a filled UI panel, a
# card in a tiled grid -- exactly the way a photo behaves. But a bar chart's
# thin bars, hairline gridlines and axis labels rarely reach that density
# (confirmed on page 18 of the same issue: most bar rows measured 0.25-0.5
# coverage against the 0.55 solid threshold, so the strict pass anchored
# only on the one fully-solid element -- the vertical zero-line -- and
# returned a box cropped to a third of the real chart). A second, looser
# pass grows that anchor -- or, lacking one, the seed itself -- through any
# real mark at all, which is what recovers the rest of a sparse chart.
#
# Both passes are fenced by the same `blocked` cells: real text, and (new)
# every *other* figure's own seed area, so the looser pass cannot bridge a
# real gutter between two adjacent figures the way a raw blank-run
# allowance could -- confirmed against two head-and-shoulders portraits on
# page 31 sitting only ~12pt (1.8 grid cells) apart, well inside what the
# blank-run tolerance alone would cross.
#
# Deliberately conservative: every rule below can decline, and declining
# leaves the model's box untouched. A wrong box the user can see and redraw
# is a nuisance; a box confidently snapped onto the wrong thing is worse.
_SNAP_CELL_PX = 10 # grid resolution -- ~2 mm at the 110 dpi page render
_SNAP_SOLID = 0.55 # inked fraction marking a cell as graphic, not type
_SNAP_GAP_CELLS = 3 # white gutter a tiled graphic is allowed to span
_SNAP_MIN_FILL = 0.45 # an accepted box is this solidly inked ...
_SNAP_MIN_FRAME = 0.9 # ... or framed on this share of its rows AND columns
_SNAP_MIN_SEED_AREA = 0.30 # ... and never shrinks below this much of the seed
_SNAP_MIN_OVERLAP = 0.005 # a graphic must touch the seed by at least this much --
# low on purpose: a seed can be offset far enough
# that it barely grazes the real graphic's edge
# (see page 70 of c't KI Wissen 2026, where the
# 0.02 first drafted here missed a 3-of-220-cell
# graze by a hair and needed a second snap pass
# before it could reposition at all)
_SNAP_ANY_INK = 0.15 # the loose pass's "there is a real mark here" floor --
# above the ~0.02-0.11 scan-noise floor measured in
# genuinely blank chart gaps, below the ~0.25+ every
# real bar/line/label measured at
_SNAP_MAX_BLANK_RUN = 2 # cells of true blank the loose pass may cross --
# covers a chart's own internal row gaps (measured
# at 1, occasionally 2 cells) without relying on
# this alone to keep two adjacent figures apart
_SNAP_BLOCKED_WALL = 0.7 # a row/column blocked across this much of a
# candidate box is real text the box must not
# cross, even though merging separate ink
# components into one rectangle (see _snap_seed)
# can otherwise enclose it geometrically
_SNAP_JOINT_ROUNDS = 6 # rounds of re-seeding every visual on a page from
# each other's last result (see snap_visual_bboxes)
# -- enough to settle the common case and to reach
# a deterministic stopping point for the rare pair
# that does not truly converge
def page_ink_grid(png_path: Path, cell: int = _SNAP_CELL_PX):
"""Coarse map of the page render: inked fraction of each `cell`-px square.
"Inked" means visibly darker than the paper or visibly coloured, so a
grey scan background does not count as ink. Body type covers roughly a
quarter of the cells it runs through; a photo or a filled panel covers
nearly all of them, which is the separation snap_visual_bboxes() relies
on. Returns None when the render cannot be read.
"""
try:
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
with Image.open(png_path) as im:
rgb = np.asarray(im.convert("RGB"), dtype=np.float32)
except Exception:
return None
lightness = rgb.max(axis=2)
saturation = lightness - rgb.min(axis=2)
paper = float(np.percentile(lightness, 90)) or 255.0
ink = (lightness < paper * 0.88) | (saturation > 40)
rows, cols = (n // cell for n in ink.shape)
if rows < 4 or cols < 4:
return None
return ink[:rows * cell, :cols * cell].reshape(
rows, cell, cols, cell).mean(axis=(1, 3))
_SNAP_STABLE_IOU = 0.7 # a result must reproduce at least this much of
# itself (intersection over union) when fed back
# in as its own seed, or it is discarded -- see
# _snap_seed's stability check
def _snap_seed(coverage, seed: Sequence[int], blocked) -> list[int] | None:
"""Grow the graphic the seed cell-box points at, or None to keep the seed.
A result is only trusted once it has proven it will not move again:
since `snap_visual_bboxes` is meant to be safe to run repeatedly (an
already-corrected box seeding the same graphic again), a candidate this
function itself would revise on a second look is exactly the case that
must not be published. Two adjacent dark photos sharing a caption strip
(page 158 of c't KI Wissen 2026) is the confirmed real case: which one
"owns" the ambiguous shared area flips depending on subtle seed-size
effects, so neither box ever settles. Declining -- keeping the model's
original box -- is safer than publishing a box the very next run would
replace with a substantially different one.
"""
box = _snap_seed_once(coverage, seed, blocked)
if box is None:
return None
settled = _snap_seed_once(coverage, box, blocked)
if settled is None:
return None
intersection = _cell_overlap(box, settled)
union = ((box[2] - box[0] + 1) * (box[3] - box[1] + 1)
+ (settled[2] - settled[0] + 1) * (settled[3] - settled[1] + 1)
- intersection)
if union == 0 or intersection / union < _SNAP_STABLE_IOU:
return None
return box
def _snap_seed_once(coverage, seed: Sequence[int], blocked) -> list[int] | None:
"""One application of the snap rules -- see _snap_seed for the public,
stability-checked entry point that wraps this.
Cells already claimed by a text block -- or by another figure's own
seed area, see snap_visual_bboxes -- are excluded up front: text boxes
come back from the same engine far more accurately than figure boxes
(verified against the page render for every block of the issue above),
so they are the one trustworthy fence against a figure swallowing the
column, or the neighbouring figure, beside it.
"""
import numpy as np
from scipy import ndimage
solid = (coverage >= _SNAP_SOLID) & ~blocked
seed_area = max(1, (seed[2] - seed[0] + 1) * (seed[3] - seed[1] + 1))
seed_mask = np.zeros(solid.shape, dtype=bool)
sx0, sy0, sx1, sy1 = seed
seed_mask[sy0:sy1 + 1, sx0:sx1 + 1] = True
# A figure split by white gutters -- a grid of cards, or (as much as a
# dashed zero-line and a dense axis-label strip can be) a chart -- is
# several disconnected solid components. Bridging small gaps BEFORE
# labelling, rather than iteratively re-joining whichever component the
# seed happens to touch first, is what makes the result independent of
# the seed's own size: re-running this function on an already-corrected
# (and now larger) box must pick the same components it did the first
# time, not a different one that merely overlaps the new seed more by
# raw area. Confirmed unstable on page 18's chart before this was
# connectivity- rather than seed-driven -- the dense axis-label strip
# briefly out-competed the thin zero-line for "best overlap" once the
# seed grew to cover both, shrinking an already-correct box back down.
connected = solid
if _SNAP_GAP_CELLS > 0:
structure = ndimage.generate_binary_structure(2, 1)
for _ in range(_SNAP_GAP_CELLS):
connected = ndimage.binary_dilation(connected, structure=structure) & ~blocked
anchor = None
labels, count = ndimage.label(connected)
if count:
overlaps = ndimage.sum_labels(seed_mask, labels, range(1, count + 1))
best = max(range(count), key=lambda i: overlaps[i])
if overlaps[best] >= _SNAP_MIN_OVERLAP * seed_area:
# The bounding box of this component's ORIGINAL solid cells,
# not its dilated footprint -- dilation only decides which
# solid patches count as one figure, it must not itself widen
# the box.
ys, xs = np.where(solid & (labels == best + 1))
if xs.size:
anchor = [int(xs.min()), int(ys.min()), int(xs.max()), int(ys.max())]
# A bounding box is a rectangle, not the component's actual
# shape, so it can still enclose a blocked text wall lying
# between two merged patches even though neither patch's
# own cells ever touched it.
anchor = _trim_blocked_edges(anchor, blocked)
# The solid pass alone stops here for a photo or a UI panel -- dense
# enough that anchor already is the whole figure. A chart's sparse bars
# and axis rules need the second, looser pass below to be included at
# all; without a solid anchor to grow from, grow straight from the seed
# instead of giving up outright, since the seed usually still overlaps
# at least part of the real graphic even when none of it is solid.
grow_from = anchor if anchor is not None else seed
any_ink = (coverage >= _SNAP_ANY_INK) & ~blocked
gx0, gy0, gx1, gy1 = grow_from
if not any_ink[gy0:gy1 + 1, gx0:gx1 + 1].any():
# Nothing at all under the anchor/seed -- a blank margin, or a pale
# chart/white-on-white screenshot below even the loose floor (see
# the known limitation in Manual.md). Declining is safer than
# guessing.
if anchor is None:
return None
box = anchor
else:
box = _grow_to_bounds(coverage, blocked, grow_from)
area = (box[2] - box[0] + 1) * (box[3] - box[1] + 1)
if area < _SNAP_MIN_SEED_AREA * seed_area:
return None
if box == grow_from:
# Growth found nothing beyond the anchor itself -- fall back to the
# original density test, which only ever runs here because a real
# solid anchor was required to reach this point.
if anchor is None:
return None
inside = coverage[box[1]:box[3] + 1, box[0]:box[2] + 1]
if inside.mean() >= _SNAP_MIN_FILL:
return box
# A screenshot or a boxed insert is mostly white inside but inked
# right around its edge, so a solid frame counts as a graphic too.
edge = solid[box[1]:box[3] + 1, box[0]:box[2] + 1]
if (edge.any(axis=1).mean() >= _SNAP_MIN_FRAME
and edge.any(axis=0).mean() >= _SNAP_MIN_FRAME):
return box
return None
# Growth extended the anchor/seed through real, connected marks fenced
# by text and other figures -- trust it without re-testing density,
# which a chart's mostly-white interior fails by construction.
return box
def _grow_to_bounds(coverage, blocked, box: Sequence[int]) -> list[int]:
"""Extend a box outward through content too sparse for the solid test.
Each of the four sides advances one cell at a time through any real
mark at all (`_SNAP_ANY_INK`), which is what a bar chart's thin bars,
hairline axis and small print register as even though none of them
individually reach the solid-ink threshold above. A side stops the
instant it reaches a blocked cell -- real text, or another figure's own
seed area -- or after `_SNAP_MAX_BLANK_RUN` consecutive cells with no
mark at all, whichever comes first, so growth cannot bridge a real
gutter between two adjacent figures or wander off into open margin.
"""
rows, cols = coverage.shape
x0, y0, x1, y1 = box
any_ink = (coverage >= _SNAP_ANY_INK) & ~blocked
def scan(pos: int, step: int, limit: int, lo: int, hi: int, horizontal: bool) -> int:
blank_run = 0
while True:
nxt = pos + step
if nxt < 0 or nxt >= limit:
break
line_blocked = blocked[nxt, lo:hi + 1] if horizontal else blocked[lo:hi + 1, nxt]
if line_blocked.any():
break
line_ink = any_ink[nxt, lo:hi + 1] if horizontal else any_ink[lo:hi + 1, nxt]
if line_ink.any():
blank_run = 0
else:
blank_run += 1
if blank_run > _SNAP_MAX_BLANK_RUN:
pos -= step * (blank_run - 1) # roll back the trailing blank run
break
pos = nxt
return pos
new_y0 = scan(y0, -1, rows, x0, x1, True)
new_y1 = scan(y1, 1, rows, x0, x1, True)
new_x0 = scan(x0, -1, cols, y0, y1, False)
new_x1 = scan(x1, 1, cols, y0, y1, False)
return [min(x0, new_x0), min(y0, new_y0), max(x1, new_x1), max(y1, new_y1)]
def _trim_blocked_edges(box: Sequence[int], blocked) -> list[int]:
"""Pull each edge of `box` back to the nearest real text wall inside it.
Merging separate ink components into one bounding rectangle (see
_snap_seed) can enclose a text block that happens to sit between two
pieces of the same graphic, even though that block's own cells were
excluded from the ink search itself -- the merge only produces a
rectangle, not the components' actual shape, so the rectangle can still
geometrically span over blocked cells lying between them. Confirmed on
page 22 of c't KI Wissen 2026: a chart's candidate box reached two text
lines above the chart itself, because a small mark on the chart's own
top edge and the graphic's body were merged across a gap that also
happened to contain the tail of an unrelated paragraph.
A row or column blocked across most of the box's width/height is
unambiguously real text, not a stray corner overlap, and is trusted
over the rectangle's own extent -- searched outward from the box's own
centre so a wall near one edge trims that edge without disturbing the
other three.
"""
x0, y0, x1, y1 = box
width, height = x1 - x0 + 1, y1 - y0 + 1
sub = blocked[y0:y1 + 1, x0:x1 + 1]
row_frac = sub.mean(axis=1)
col_frac = sub.mean(axis=0)
new_y0, new_y1 = y0, y1
for r in range(height // 2, -1, -1):
if row_frac[r] >= _SNAP_BLOCKED_WALL:
new_y0 = y0 + r + 1
break
for r in range(height // 2, height):
if row_frac[r] >= _SNAP_BLOCKED_WALL:
new_y1 = y0 + r - 1
break
new_x0, new_x1 = x0, x1
for c in range(width // 2, -1, -1):
if col_frac[c] >= _SNAP_BLOCKED_WALL:
new_x0 = x0 + c + 1
break
for c in range(width // 2, width):
if col_frac[c] >= _SNAP_BLOCKED_WALL:
new_x1 = x0 + c - 1
break
if new_y0 > new_y1 or new_x0 > new_x1:
return list(box) # trimming would invert the box -- leave it be
return [new_x0, new_y0, new_x1, new_y1]
def _cell_overlap(a: Sequence[int], b: Sequence[int]) -> int:
"""Area, in grid cells, shared by two inclusive [x0, y0, x1, y1] boxes."""
return (max(0, min(a[2], b[2]) - max(a[0], b[0]) + 1)
* max(0, min(a[3], b[3]) - max(a[1], b[1]) + 1))
def snap_visual_bboxes(png_path: Path, blocks: Sequence[Block],
page_meta: dict[str, Any]) -> int:
"""Correct every visual block's bbox against the page render, in place.
Returns how many boxes moved. Silent no-op when the render is missing or
the imaging stack is unavailable -- the layout stays exactly as the OCR
engine reported it, which is what happened before this pass existed.
"""
visuals = [b for b in blocks if b.type in VISUAL_TYPES]
if not visuals:
return 0
try:
import numpy as np
import scipy.ndimage # noqa: F401 -- required by _snap_seed
except ImportError:
return 0
coverage = page_ink_grid(png_path)
if coverage is None:
return 0
rows, cols = coverage.shape
page_w = float(page_meta.get("width") or 0) or 1.0
page_h = float(page_meta.get("height") or 0) or 1.0
cells_x, cells_y = cols / page_w, rows / page_h
def to_cells(bbox: Sequence[float]) -> list[int]:
x, y, w, h = bbox
return [min(cols - 1, max(0, int(x * cells_x))),
min(rows - 1, max(0, int(y * cells_y))),
min(cols - 1, max(0, int((x + w) * cells_x))),
min(rows - 1, max(0, int((y + h) * cells_y)))]
text_blocked = np.zeros(coverage.shape, dtype=bool)
for b in blocks:
if b.type in VISUAL_TYPES or not b.text.strip():
continue
x0, y0, x1, y1 = to_cells(b.bbox)
text_blocked[y0:y1 + 1, x0:x1 + 1] = True
visual_seeds = [to_cells(b.bbox) for b in visuals]
def blocked_for(i: int, current: list[list[int]]):
# A figure's loose growth pass (see _grow_to_bounds) must not bridge
# into a neighbouring figure's own territory just because the gutter
# between them is narrow and mostly blank -- two head-and-shoulders
# portraits on the same page can sit under 2 grid cells apart.
# Blocking every *other* figure's own current area, not just text,
# fences that gutter regardless of how little ink is in it.
blocked = text_blocked.copy()
for j, other in enumerate(current):
if j == i:
continue
ox0, oy0, ox1, oy1 = other
blocked[oy0:oy1 + 1, ox0:ox1 + 1] = True
return blocked
def colliding_pairs(boxes: list[list[int]]) -> set[int]:
# Two figures pulled onto the same graphic means the page was read
# as one picture where the engine saw two (or the reverse); neither
# reading can be trusted over the other, so both keep their
# original box.
hit: set[int] = set()
for i, a in enumerate(boxes):
for j in range(i + 1, len(boxes)):
c = boxes[j]
smaller = min((a[2] - a[0] + 1) * (a[3] - a[1] + 1),
(c[2] - c[0] + 1) * (c[3] - c[1] + 1))
if _cell_overlap(a, c) > 0.5 * smaller:
hit.add(i)
hit.add(j)
return hit
# Ambiguity is decided once, up front, fenced against the engine's own
# ORIGINAL seeds -- not against whatever the iterative refinement below
# settles on. Iterating first and only then checking for collisions
# would let two seeds legitimately ambiguous about the same graphic
# mutually fence each other into a tidy, confident-looking split of it
# instead of ever being recognised as the same disputed claim.
first_round = [_snap_seed(coverage, seed, blocked_for(i, visual_seeds))
for i, seed in enumerate(visual_seeds)]
ambiguous = colliding_pairs([box or seed for box, seed in zip(first_round, visual_seeds)])
# Fencing figure i against figure j's box, and vice versa, means each
# one's result depends on where the OTHER currently sits -- a mutual
# dependency a single pass cannot resolve consistently. Repeating the
# whole page's worth of visuals, each round seeded by the previous
# round's output, converges that to a joint fixed point in the common
# case, and -- for the rare pair that never truly settles (two dark
# photos sharing a caption strip, confirmed on page 158 of c't KI
# Wissen 2026) -- reliably lands on the SAME deterministic answer every
# time this function is called, because a later call starts from
# exactly the state this loop stops at rather than re-diverging. An
# already-ambiguous visual is frozen at its original seed throughout,
# both as a participant (it will be discarded anyway) and as a fence
# for its neighbours (its disputed reading must not move anyone else).
current = list(visual_seeds)
for _ in range(_SNAP_JOINT_ROUNDS):
nxt = [visual_seeds[i] if i in ambiguous else
(_snap_seed(coverage, seed, blocked_for(i, current)) or seed)
for i, seed in enumerate(current)]
if nxt == current:
break
current = nxt
reverted = ambiguous | colliding_pairs(current)
final = [None if i in reverted or current[i] == visual_seeds[i] else current[i]
for i in range(len(current))]
moved = 0
for block, box in zip(visuals, final):
if box is None:
continue
bbox = [box[0] / cells_x, box[1] / cells_y,
(box[2] + 1 - box[0]) / cells_x, (box[3] + 1 - box[1]) / cells_y]
if any(abs(a - b) > 1.0 for a, b in zip(bbox, block.bbox)):
moved += 1
block.bbox = bbox
return moved
def ocr_page(png_path: Path, lang: str = "deu+eng",
min_confidence: float = 40.0) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""OCR one rendered page, returning paragraph boxes from tesseract's TSV.
Grouped by (block, paragraph), not by line: PyMuPDF's native path already
aggregates a paragraph's spans into one Block with one representative font
size, and OCR must match that shape or the two paths behave inconsistently
downstream. Confirmed live on a scanned magazine -- one Block per LINE let
a single anomalous line (a chart axis number, a headline's wrapped second
line, scan noise) independently trigger BLOCK_TITLE classification, and a
28-page scan produced ~11 "title" blocks per page instead of grouping
around real headlines. font_size uses the MEDIAN of the paragraph's own
line heights rather than the paragraph's total bbox height (which would
scale with line count, not type size) -- a genuine multi-line headline
still measures large because each of its few lines is uniformly large;
one noisy line inside an otherwise normal paragraph no longer dominates.
TSV rather than plain text because the coordinates are the whole point:
they are what lets an OCR'd page take part in the same column and article
grouping as a native-text page.
"""
try:
proc = subprocess.run(
["tesseract", str(png_path), "stdout", "-l", lang, "tsv"],
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=180, check=True,
)
except (subprocess.SubprocessError, FileNotFoundError, OSError):
return []
paragraphs: dict[tuple[int, int], dict[str, Any]] = {}
for row in proc.stdout.splitlines()[1:]:
parts = row.split("\t")
if len(parts) < 12:
continue
try:
block_num, par_num, line_num = int(parts[2]), int(parts[3]), int(parts[4])
left, top, width, height = (int(parts[6]), int(parts[7]),
int(parts[8]), int(parts[9]))
conf = float(parts[10])
except ValueError:
continue
word = parts[11].strip()
if not word or conf < min_confidence:
continue
para_key = (block_num, par_num)
para = paragraphs.setdefault(para_key, {"lines": {}})
line = para["lines"].setdefault(line_num, {
"text": [], "x0": left, "y0": top,
"x1": left + width, "y1": top + height, "conf": [],
})
line["text"].append(word)
line["x0"] = min(line["x0"], left)
line["y0"] = min(line["y0"], top)
line["x1"] = max(line["x1"], left + width)
line["y1"] = max(line["y1"], top + height)
line["conf"].append(conf)
out = []
for _, para in sorted(paragraphs.items()):
lines = [l for _, l in sorted(para["lines"].items()) if l["text"]]
if not lines:
continue
x0 = min(l["x0"] for l in lines)
y0 = min(l["y0"] for l in lines)
x1 = max(l["x1"] for l in lines)
y1 = max(l["y1"] for l in lines)
heights = [float(l["y1"] - l["y0"]) for l in lines]
confs = [c for l in lines for c in l["conf"]]
out.append({
"text": " ".join(" ".join(l["text"]) for l in lines),
"bbox": [float(x0), float(y0), float(x1 - x0), float(y1 - y0)],
"line_height": statistics.median(heights),
"confidence": round(sum(confs) / len(confs) / 100.0, 3),
})
return out
_VISION_QUALITY_THRESHOLD = 0.5 # below this, existing native/OCR text is escalated
def extract_pages(pdf_path: Path, out_dir: Path, render_dpi: int = 110,
ocr_lang: str = "deu+eng",
vision_ocr_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_timeout: float = 150.0,
force_vision_ocr: bool = False,
progress: Any = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Run the full extraction for one PDF, writing page renders and images.
When vision_ocr_url/model are given, a page whose text needs OCR (or
whose already-extracted text scores as mostly garbage, native or
tesseract alike -- see ocr_quality_score) is escalated to that engine
first, with a second vision engine (vision_ocr_fallback_*) tried next if
given, and tesseract only as the last resort if every vision call fails
or every engine is unreachable. Confirmed live against
ocr-baidu-unlimited-ocr: markedly more accurate transcription of a
scanned German magazine than tesseract, and it labels running headers/
footers/page numbers directly (see build_vision_blocks), which is the
dominant source of the over-fragmentation cluster_running_furniture()
otherwise has to recover after the fact from noisy OCR variants of the
same repeating line. KDL Frontier Parser nano, tested as the fallback
engine, answers faster but returns plain text with no layout coordinates
at all -- handled by _whole_page_region as one ambiguous full-page block.
Returns the layout document: every block on every page, classified and in
reading order, plus the raw contents-page candidates.
"""
fitz = _require_fitz()
pages_dir = out_dir / "pages"
images_dir = out_dir / "images"
pages_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
images_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
vision_engines = [(vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model),
(vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model)]
vision_enabled = bool(vision_ocr_url and vision_ocr_model)
vision_page_count = 0
doc = fitz.open(str(pdf_path))
try:
raw_pages: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
for pno in range(doc.page_count):
page = doc.load_page(pno)
rect = page.rect
page_no = pno + 1
png = pages_dir / f"{page_no:04d}.png"
if not png.exists():
pix = page.get_pixmap(dpi=render_dpi)
pix.save(str(png))
image_boxes: list[list[float]] = []
page_images: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
for img_index, info in enumerate(page.get_images(full=True)):
rects: list[list[float]] = []
try:
for r in page.get_image_rects(info[0]):
rects.append([r.x0, r.y0, r.width, r.height])
except Exception:
continue
image_boxes.extend(rects)
name = f"p{page_no:04d}-{img_index:02d}"
if _extract_image(fitz, doc, info[0], images_dir, name) and rects:
# A few embedded images repeat (a logo stamped on every
# page); each placement still gets its own bbox so a
# caption or figure position can be matched precisely.
for ri, box in enumerate(rects):
page_images.append({
"id": name if ri == 0 else f"{name}-{ri}",
"page": page_no,
"bbox": box,
"filename": f"{name}.png",
})
blocks: list[Block] = []
data = page.get_text("dict")
for bi, blk in enumerate(data.get("blocks", [])):
if blk.get("type") != 0: # 0 = text, 1 = image
continue
texts, sizes, fonts, bolds = [], [], [], []
for line in blk.get("lines", []):
for span in line.get("spans", []):
if not span.get("text", "").strip():
continue
texts.append(span["text"])
sizes.append(float(span.get("size", 0)))
fonts.append(span.get("font", ""))
bolds.append(bool(span.get("flags", 0) & 2 ** 4))
text = " ".join(texts).strip()
if not text:
continue
x0, y0, x1, y1 = blk["bbox"]
blocks.append(Block(
id=f"b{page_no:04d}-{bi:03d}",
page=page_no,
bbox=[x0, y0, x1 - x0, y1 - y0],
type=BLOCK_BODY,
text=text,
font_size=statistics.median(sizes) if sizes else 0.0,
font_name=max(set(fonts), key=fonts.count) if fonts else "",
bold=sum(bolds) > len(bolds) / 2 if bolds else False,
))
# A page whose native text is negligible is a scan (or is drawn as
# outlines); OCR is the only way to reach its words. A page WITH
# native/embedded text is not necessarily good text -- a
# pre-OCR'd scan (e.g. from scanner-bundled OCR software) can
# carry a poor text layer that this same escalation should reach.
native_chars = sum(len(b.text) for b in blocks)
needs_ocr = native_chars < 120
native_quality = (
ocr_quality_score(" ".join(b.text for b in blocks))
if not needs_ocr else 0.0
)
needs_escalation = force_vision_ocr or needs_ocr or native_quality < _VISION_QUALITY_THRESHOLD
vision_blocks: list[Block] | None = None
if vision_enabled and needs_escalation:
regions = vision_ocr_page_chain(png, vision_engines,
timeout=vision_ocr_timeout)
if regions:
scale_x = rect.width / max(1.0, _png_width(png, fitz))
vision_blocks = build_vision_blocks(
regions, page_no, scale_x, id_prefix="b")
if vision_blocks is not None:
# Replaces whatever was already there -- including a poor
# native/pre-OCR'd text layer, rather than layering a second,
# conflicting reading on top of it.
vision_page_count += 1
blocks = vision_blocks
page_meta = {"width": rect.width, "height": rect.height}
# Before cropping: the crop is taken from the block's bbox,
# so a box the engine placed loosely would be saved as a
# mis-framed figure file as well as a mis-drawn review box.
snap_visual_bboxes(png, blocks, page_meta)
detected_images = crop_visual_regions(out_dir, page_no,
page_meta, blocks)
if detected_images:
page_images = detected_images
elif needs_ocr:
scale_x = rect.width / max(1.0, _png_width(png, fitz))
for li, para in enumerate(ocr_page(png, ocr_lang)):
bx, by, bw, bh = para["bbox"]
blocks.append(Block(
id=f"b{page_no:04d}-o{li:03d}",
page=page_no,
bbox=[bx * scale_x, by * scale_x, bw * scale_x, bh * scale_x],
type=BLOCK_BODY,
text=para["text"],
confidence=para["confidence"],
# The paragraph's own line height, not its full bbox
# height -- that would scale with line count instead
# of type size (see ocr_page's docstring).
font_size=para["line_height"] * scale_x,
source="ocr",
))
# else: native text present and scored well enough -- unchanged.
raw_pages.append({
"page": page_no,
"width": rect.width,
"height": rect.height,
"blocks": blocks,
"image_boxes": image_boxes,
"images": page_images,
})
if progress:
# Raw block text, pre-classification -- good enough for a
# live "here is what was just read" preview during ingestion
# (mirrors ocr-baidu-unlimited-ocr's own demo: source page on
# one side, recognised text on the other, filled in as each
# page finishes) without waiting for the document-wide passes
# below.
try:
progress(page_no, doc.page_count, blocks, page_images)
except TypeError:
progress(page_no, doc.page_count, blocks)
# Furniture can only be identified across the whole document, so
# classification waits until every page has been read.
repeated = find_repeated_lines(
[[b.text for b in p["blocks"]] for p in raw_pages]
)
all_blocks: list[Block] = []
contents_candidates: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
# One baseline for the whole issue (see classify_blocks).
doc_base = body_font_size(
[b for p in raw_pages for b in p["blocks"]]
)
for p in raw_pages:
classify_blocks(p["blocks"], p["height"], p["width"],
repeated=repeated, image_boxes=p["image_boxes"],
base_size=doc_base)
mark_advert_pages(p["blocks"])
mark_pullquotes(p["blocks"])
assign_reading_order(p["blocks"], p["width"])
mark_sidebars(p["blocks"], p["width"])
all_blocks.extend(p["blocks"])
# Cross-page, so it runs once over every block rather than per page
# (see cluster_running_furniture's docstring for why exact-match
# find_repeated_lines above is not enough once OCR is involved).
page_heights = {p["page"]: p["height"] for p in raw_pages}
cluster_running_furniture(all_blocks, page_heights)
for p in raw_pages:
lines = [b.text for b in sorted(p["blocks"], key=lambda b: b.reading_order)]
score = score_contents_page(lines)
if score >= 0.45:
contents_candidates.append({
"page": p["page"],
"score": score,
"entries": parse_contents(lines),
})
all_images = [img for p in raw_pages for img in p["images"]]
for img in all_images:
img["reading_order"] = image_reading_position(img, all_blocks)
return {
"page_count": doc.page_count,
"pages": [{"page": p["page"], "width": p["width"], "height": p["height"]}
for p in raw_pages],
"blocks": [b.to_json() for b in all_blocks],
"images": all_images,
"contents_candidates": contents_candidates,
"vision_ocr_pages": vision_page_count,
}
finally:
doc.close()
def _png_width(png: Path, fitz) -> float:
try:
return float(fitz.Pixmap(str(png)).width)
except Exception:
return 1.0
def _extract_image(fitz, doc, xref: int, images_dir: Path, name: str) -> bool:
"""Save one embedded image, skipping the tiny rules and spacers.
Returns whether a file now exists at that name, so the caller can decide
whether to record it as a real figure -- without this, a page's rules and
spacers were silently skipped on disk but still implicitly "existed" as
far as anything downstream knew, since nothing checked.
"""
try:
pix = fitz.Pixmap(doc, xref)
if pix.width < 64 or pix.height < 64:
return False
if pix.n - pix.alpha >= 4: # CMYK needs converting first
pix = fitz.Pixmap(fitz.csRGB, pix)
target = images_dir / f"{name}.png"
if not target.exists():
pix.save(str(target))
return True
except Exception:
return False
# ── Images: linking a figure to the article it illustrates ──────────────────
def assign_images_to_articles(images: Sequence[dict[str, Any]],
blocks: Sequence[Block],
articles: Sequence[Article]) -> None:
"""Attach each extracted figure to the article whose column it falls in.
A figure belongs to whichever article occupies its page; when two
articles share a page (a feature ending, a new one starting lower down),
the figure goes to whichever article has the nearer block by vertical
position, so a photo is not shown under the wrong headline. Mutates
articles in place.
"""
by_page: dict[int, list[Article]] = {}
for art in articles:
for page in art.pages:
by_page.setdefault(page, []).append(art)
blocks_by_page: dict[int, list[Block]] = {}
for b in blocks:
blocks_by_page.setdefault(b.page, []).append(b)
for img in images:
if img.get("type") == BLOCK_AD:
continue
candidates = by_page.get(img["page"], [])
if not candidates:
continue
if len(candidates) == 1:
candidates[0].images.append(img["id"])
continue
# Several articles share this page: pick by nearest block vertically,
# since that is what a reader would associate the figure with.
img_y = img["bbox"][1]
best, best_dist = candidates[0], float("inf")
for art in candidates:
own_blocks = [b for b in blocks_by_page.get(img["page"], [])
if b.id in set(art.blocks)]
if not own_blocks:
continue
dist = min(abs(b.bbox[1] - img_y) for b in own_blocks)
if dist < best_dist:
best, best_dist = art, dist
best.images.append(img["id"])
def image_reading_position(image: dict[str, Any], blocks: Sequence[Block]) -> int:
"""Approximate reading_order for an image, for ordering it among sentences.
Uses the nearest block on the same page whose top sits at or above the
image (so a photo is shown once the surrounding text has been reached,
not before), falling back to the closest block on the page if the image
sits above all of them.
"""
same_page = [b for b in blocks if b.page == image["page"]]
if not same_page:
return 0
above = [b for b in same_page if b.bbox[1] <= image["bbox"][1]]
pool = above or same_page
nearest = min(pool, key=lambda b: abs(b.bbox[1] - image["bbox"][1]))
return nearest.reading_order
# ── Persistence ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def build_articles(layout: dict[str, Any]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Turn a stored layout document into detected articles with estimates."""
blocks = [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", [])]
candidates = layout.get("contents_candidates") or []
best = max(candidates, key=lambda c: c["score"], default=None)
entries = best["entries"] if best else []
# The contents page lists articles; it is not one.
skip = {c["page"] for c in candidates if c.get("score", 0) >= 0.45}
articles = group_articles(blocks, entries, layout.get("page_count", 0),
skip_pages=skip)
assign_images_to_articles(layout.get("images") or [], blocks, articles)
out = []
for art in articles:
rec = art.to_json()
rec["estimated_seconds"] = estimate_listen_seconds(blocks, art)
out.append(rec)
return out
def reocr_page(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int,
vision_ocr_url: str, vision_ocr_model: str,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""Force one page through the vision OCR chain again with the engine the
user picked, replacing only that page's blocks in an already-ingested
layout.
Unlike extract_pages()'s automatic escalation, this always calls the
engine regardless of the page's existing text quality -- a user pressing
"OCR again" has already judged the result unusable and is not asking for
another quality gate. Deliberately does NOT call build_articles(): an
article the user already reviewed and approved must not be silently
re-grouped and lose that approval just because one of its pages was
re-read. The caller decides whether to re-run detection separately.
Returns the updated layout, or None if the page has no rendered PNG or
the engine returned nothing usable (network failure, empty response) --
the caller keeps the existing blocks in that case, never discards good
data for a failed retry.
"""
fitz = _require_fitz()
png = doc_dir / "pages" / f"{page_no:04d}.png"
if not png.is_file():
return None
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta:
return None
engines = [(vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model),
(vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model)]
regions = vision_ocr_page_chain(png, engines, timeout=timeout)
if not regions:
return None
scale_x = page_meta["width"] / max(1.0, _png_width(png, fitz))
new_blocks = build_vision_blocks(regions, page_no, scale_x, id_prefix="r")
snap_visual_bboxes(png, new_blocks, page_meta)
all_blocks = [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", [])]
kept = [b for b in all_blocks if b.page != page_no]
# The baseline must come from the rest of the document, not this page
# alone -- see classify_blocks' docstring on why a single page (which may
# have no body copy of its own) cannot be its own reference.
doc_base = body_font_size(kept) or body_font_size(all_blocks)
classify_blocks(new_blocks, page_meta["height"], page_meta["width"], base_size=doc_base)
mark_advert_pages(new_blocks)
mark_pullquotes(new_blocks)
assign_reading_order(new_blocks, page_meta["width"])
mark_sidebars(new_blocks, page_meta["width"])
merged = kept + new_blocks
page_heights = {p["page"]: p["height"] for p in layout.get("pages", [])}
cluster_running_furniture(merged, page_heights)
layout = dict(layout)
layout["blocks"] = [b.to_json() for b in merged]
detected_images = crop_visual_regions(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, new_blocks)
if detected_images:
layout["images"] = [i for i in layout.get("images", []) if i["page"] != page_no or "-manual-" in i["id"]] + detected_images
layout["vision_ocr_pages"] = int(layout.get("vision_ocr_pages") or 0) + 1
return layout
def apply_semantic_regions(blocks: list[dict], regions: list[dict], page_meta: dict | None = None) -> list[dict]:
"""Group existing OCR fragments without allowing invented IDs or text."""
known = {b["id"]: b for b in blocks}
used = set()
out = []
allowed = set(NARRATABLE) | set(VISUAL_TYPES) | {BLOCK_AD, BLOCK_SIDEBAR, BLOCK_CAPTION, BLOCK_FURNITURE, BLOCK_PULLQUOTE}
for region in regions:
if not isinstance(region, dict):
raise ValueError("Invalid semantic region")
ids = region.get("block_ids")
label = region.get("type")
kind = _VISION_LABEL_TYPES.get(label, label)
visual_box = None
if "bbox" in region and kind in (*VISUAL_TYPES, BLOCK_AD):
bbox = region["bbox"]
if not page_meta or not isinstance(bbox, list) or len(bbox) != 4 or not all(
isinstance(v, (int, float)) and math.isfinite(v) and 0 <= v <= 1000 for v in bbox):
raise ValueError("Invalid visual bounding box")
x0, y0, x1, y1 = bbox
if x1 <= x0 or y1 <= y0:
raise ValueError("Empty visual region")
visual_box = [x0 / 1000 * page_meta["width"], y0 / 1000 * page_meta["height"],
(x1 - x0) / 1000 * page_meta["width"], (y1 - y0) / 1000 * page_meta["height"]]
if not ids and kind in VISUAL_TYPES and visual_box:
out.append(Block(id=f"p{page_meta['page']:04d}-visual-{len(out)}", page=page_meta['page'],
bbox=visual_box, type=kind, text="", reading_order=len(out),
source="llm_layout", region_label=label).to_json())
continue
if not isinstance(ids, list) or not ids or not all(isinstance(i, str) for i in ids):
raise ValueError("Invalid region IDs")
if kind not in allowed or len(set(ids)) != len(ids) or any(i not in known or i in used for i in ids):
raise ValueError("Unknown or repeated semantic region")
members = [known[i] for i in ids]
if len({b["page"] for b in members}) != 1:
raise ValueError("A region cannot span pages")
if any(b["type"] == BLOCK_AD for b in members):
if not all(b["type"] == BLOCK_AD for b in members):
raise ValueError("Cannot merge advertising and editorial text")
kind = BLOCK_AD
used.update(ids)
x = min(b["bbox"][0] for b in members)
y = min(b["bbox"][1] for b in members)
right = max(b["bbox"][0] + b["bbox"][2] for b in members)
bottom = max(b["bbox"][1] + b["bbox"][3] for b in members)
separator = "\n" if kind in (BLOCK_CODE, BLOCK_TABLE) else " "
text = separator.join(b["text"] for b in members)
if kind in NARRATABLE:
text = re.sub(r"(?<=\w)-\s+(?=[a-zäöüß])", "", text)
out.append(dict(members[0], bbox=visual_box or [x, y, right - x, bottom - y], text=text,
type=kind, region_label=label, source="llm_layout",
reading_order=len(out),
continues_from_previous_page=region.get("continues_from_previous_page") is True))
# Incomplete model output must not silently remove document content.
return out + [b for b in blocks if b["id"] not in used]
def remap_reviewed_page(articles: list[dict], old_layout: dict, layout: dict, page: int) -> None:
"""Reconnect reviewed articles when OCR replaces the page's region IDs."""
old = {b["id"]: b for b in old_layout.get("blocks", []) if b["page"] == page}
owners = {a["id"]: [old[i] for i in a.get("blocks", []) if i in old] for a in articles}
affected = [a for a in articles if page in a.get("pages", []) or owners[a["id"]]]
for a in affected:
a["blocks"] = [i for i in a.get("blocks", []) if i not in old]
known_images = {i["id"] for i in layout.get("images", [])}
a["images"] = [i for i in a.get("images", []) if i in known_images]
if a.get("status") == "approved":
a["status"] = "detected"
for block in layout.get("blocks", []):
if block["page"] != page or block["type"] not in NARRATABLE or not affected:
continue
x, y, w, h = block["bbox"]
def overlap(a):
return sum(max(0, min(x + w, b["bbox"][0] + b["bbox"][2]) - max(x, b["bbox"][0])) *
max(0, min(y + h, b["bbox"][1] + b["bbox"][3]) - max(y, b["bbox"][1]))
for b in owners[a["id"]])
best = max(affected, key=overlap)
if overlap(best) >= w * h * 0.35:
best["blocks"].append(block["id"])
# Newly recognised visual regions follow the closest article on the page.
objects = [Article(**{k: v for k, v in a.items() if k in Article.__dataclass_fields__}) for a in affected]
new_images = [i for i in layout.get("images", []) if i["page"] == page and i.get("source_block")]
for a in objects:
a.images = [i for i in a.images if i not in {im["id"] for im in new_images}]
assign_images_to_articles(new_images, [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", [])], objects)
for a, obj in zip(affected, objects):
a["images"] = obj.images
def _crop_page_png(doc_dir: Path, page_no: int, page_meta: dict[str, Any],
bbox: Sequence[float], dest: Path) -> None:
"""Crop one region (PDF-point bbox) out of a page's rendered PNG."""
from PIL import Image
png = doc_dir / "pages" / f"{page_no:04d}.png"
with Image.open(png) as im:
sx, sy = im.width / page_meta["width"], im.height / page_meta["height"]
box_px = (
max(0, int(bbox[0] * sx)), max(0, int(bbox[1] * sy)),
min(im.width, int((bbox[0] + bbox[2]) * sx)),
min(im.height, int((bbox[1] + bbox[3]) * sy)),
)
im.crop(box_px).save(dest)
def refresh_visual_regions(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict, page: int | None = None) -> None:
"""Re-snap figure bounds, regenerate the crops taken from them, and avoid
treating a whole scanned page as one figure."""
for meta in layout.get("pages", []):
page_no = meta["page"]
if page is not None and page_no != page:
continue
blocks = [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", []) if b["page"] == page_no]
# Re-snapping here, not only at OCR time, is what lets an issue
# ingested before this pass existed pick up corrected figure boxes
# without paying for a second OCR run of the whole document. It is
# idempotent: an already-correct box seeds the same graphic again.
if snap_visual_bboxes(doc_dir / "pages" / f"{page_no:04d}.png", blocks, meta):
snapped = {b.id: b.bbox for b in blocks if b.type in VISUAL_TYPES}
for saved in layout["blocks"]:
if saved["id"] in snapped:
saved["bbox"] = snapped[saved["id"]]
crops = crop_visual_regions(doc_dir, page_no, meta, blocks)
kept = []
for img in layout.get("images", []):
if img["page"] != page_no or "-manual-" in img["id"]:
kept.append(img)
continue
if img.get("source_block"):
continue
x, y, w, h = img["bbox"]
if w * h >= meta["width"] * meta["height"] * .85 and sum(len(b.text) for b in blocks) > 120:
continue
if any(abs(x - c["bbox"][0]) < 5 and abs(y - c["bbox"][1]) < 5 and
abs(w - c["bbox"][2]) < 10 and abs(h - c["bbox"][3]) < 10 for c in crops):
continue
# Embedded graphics inside an identified advert are advertising too.
if any(b.type == BLOCK_AD and x >= b.bbox[0] and y >= b.bbox[1] and
x + w <= b.bbox[0] + b.bbox[2] and y + h <= b.bbox[1] + b.bbox[3] for b in blocks):
img = dict(img, type=BLOCK_AD)
kept.append(img)
for crop in crops:
crop["reading_order"] = image_reading_position(crop, blocks)
layout["images"] = kept + crops
def crop_visual_regions(doc_dir: Path, page_no: int, page_meta: dict,
blocks: Sequence[Block]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Keep charts, tables and code boxes intact as page crops for playback."""
images = []
for b in blocks:
if b.type not in VISUAL_TYPES:
continue
name = f"p{page_no:04d}-region-{b.id}"
(doc_dir / "images").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
_crop_page_png(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, b.bbox, doc_dir / "images" / f"{name}.png")
images.append({"id": name, "page": page_no, "bbox": b.bbox,
"filename": f"{name}.png", "type": b.type,
"source_block": b.id, "text": b.text,
"reading_order": b.reading_order})
return images
def add_manual_region(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int,
bbox: Sequence[float], kind: str, text: str = "",
vision_ocr_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Add a region the user drew by hand -- for text or a figure OCR/layout
detection missed entirely, not for correcting one already found (use
review's tick/untick or reocr_page for that).
kind "image" crops the region into its own figure file and adds it to
layout["images"]. kind "text" adds a new Block: if `text` is supplied it
is used verbatim (the user typed it themselves), otherwise the crop is
sent through the vision OCR chain if one is configured -- best-effort,
the block is still added with a placeholder if that returns nothing,
since the user drawing this region at all means they judged the text
important enough to include even without a clean read.
Deliberately does not re-run classify_blocks on the new region: the user
is drawing it precisely because automatic detection already failed on
it, so re-applying the same heuristics would not be trustworthy. Text is
trusted as stated (BLOCK_BODY, narratable); explicit review labels map to
their matching semantic block types and only then receive a fresh
reading-order position on its page.
"""
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta:
raise ValueError("Unknown page")
if len(bbox) != 4 or bbox[2] <= 0 or bbox[3] <= 0:
raise ValueError("bbox must be [x, y, width, height] with a positive size")
layout = dict(layout)
if kind == "image":
images_dir = doc_dir / "images"
images_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
existing = list(images_dir.glob(f"p{page_no:04d}-manual-*.png"))
name = f"p{page_no:04d}-manual-{len(existing):03d}"
_crop_page_png(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, bbox, images_dir / f"{name}.png")
images = list(layout.get("images", []))
# Placed after every auto-detected image on the page by reading
# order -- a reasonable default for a figure the pipeline missed;
# the user can still see and move past it like any other figure.
page_images = [i for i in images if i["page"] == page_no]
next_ro = max([i.get("reading_order", 0) for i in page_images], default=0) + 1
images.append({"id": name, "page": page_no, "bbox": list(bbox),
"filename": f"{name}.png", "reading_order": next_ro})
layout["images"] = images
return layout
manual_type, region_label = {
"text": (BLOCK_BODY, None),
"heading": (BLOCK_HEADING, None),
"page_number": (BLOCK_FURNITURE, "page_number"),
"source": (BLOCK_FURNITURE, "source"),
"ad": (BLOCK_AD, None),
}.get(kind, (None, None))
if manual_type is None:
raise ValueError("Unsupported manual region kind")
final_text = text.strip()
if not final_text and vision_ocr_url and vision_ocr_model:
crop_path = doc_dir / "pages" / f".manual-crop-{page_no}.png"
try:
_crop_page_png(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, bbox, crop_path)
engines = [(vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model),
(vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model)]
regions = vision_ocr_page_chain(crop_path, engines, timeout=timeout)
if regions:
final_text = " ".join(r["text"] for r in regions).strip()
finally:
crop_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
if not final_text:
final_text = "(no text recognised -- click to edit)"
blocks = [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", [])]
existing_ids = {b.id for b in blocks}
i = 0
while f"m{page_no:04d}-{i:03d}" in existing_ids:
i += 1
new_block = Block(id=f"m{page_no:04d}-{i:03d}", page=page_no, bbox=list(bbox),
type=manual_type, text=final_text, confidence=0.5, source="manual",
region_label=region_label)
page_blocks = [b for b in blocks if b.page == page_no] + [new_block]
assign_reading_order(page_blocks, page_meta["width"])
others = [b for b in blocks if b.page != page_no]
layout["blocks"] = [b.to_json() for b in others + page_blocks]
return layout
def extract_region_text(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int,
bbox: Sequence[float], vision_ocr_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> str:
"""OCR a user-selected rectangle without changing the saved layout.
Used for metadata fields such as article title/author: unlike a manual
region, the selection is a one-off extraction and must not become prose
that is later narrated.
"""
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta or len(bbox) != 4 or bbox[2] <= 0 or bbox[3] <= 0:
raise ValueError("Invalid page selection")
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix=f".extract-{page_no}-", suffix=".png",
dir=doc_dir / "pages", delete=False) as tmp:
crop_path = Path(tmp.name)
try:
_crop_page_png(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, bbox, crop_path)
regions = None
if vision_ocr_url and vision_ocr_model:
regions = vision_ocr_page_chain(crop_path, [
(vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model),
(vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model),
], timeout=timeout)
if regions:
return " ".join(r.get("text", "") for r in regions if r.get("text")).strip()
return " ".join(p.get("text", "") for p in ocr_page(crop_path) if p.get("text")).strip()
finally:
crop_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def update_region(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int, block_id: str,
bbox: Sequence[float] | None, reocr: bool = False,
vision_ocr_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], str | None]:
"""Move/resize a region the layout engine already found, after the user
dragged its box to correct a misplaced or mis-sized detection.
Not for a region detection missed entirely (add_manual_region covers
that) -- block_id must already exist in this page's blocks or images.
A text block can also be re-OCRed at its corrected geometry (`reocr`);
an image region is always re-cropped from the page render when its bbox
changes, since its saved file is exactly that crop. Returns the updated
layout and, when reocr produced text, that text (None otherwise, so the
caller can tell "no re-OCR requested" apart from "re-OCR found nothing").
"""
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta:
raise ValueError("Unknown page")
if bbox is not None and (len(bbox) != 4 or bbox[2] <= 0 or bbox[3] <= 0):
raise ValueError("bbox must be [x, y, width, height] with a positive size")
layout = dict(layout)
blocks = list(layout.get("blocks", []))
block_idx = next((i for i, b in enumerate(blocks) if b["id"] == block_id), None)
if block_idx is not None:
block = dict(blocks[block_idx])
if bbox is not None:
block["bbox"] = list(bbox)
new_text = None
if reocr:
new_text = extract_region_text(
doc_dir, layout, page_no, block["bbox"],
vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model,
vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model, timeout)
if new_text:
block["text"] = new_text
blocks[block_idx] = block
layout["blocks"] = blocks
return layout, new_text
images = list(layout.get("images", []))
image_idx = next((i for i, im in enumerate(images) if im["id"] == block_id), None)
if image_idx is None:
raise ValueError("Region not found on this page")
image = dict(images[image_idx])
if bbox is not None:
image["bbox"] = list(bbox)
filename = image.get("filename") or f"{block_id}.png"
(doc_dir / "images").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
_crop_page_png(doc_dir, page_no, page_meta, bbox, doc_dir / "images" / filename)
image["filename"] = filename
images[image_idx] = image
layout["images"] = images
return layout, None
# What a region can be changed into from the review screen: text kinds map to a block type (and,
# for furniture, which kind of furniture); "image" turns the region into a figure crop.
REGION_TYPES: dict[str, tuple[str, str]] = {
"body": (BLOCK_BODY, ""),
"title": (BLOCK_TITLE, ""),
"heading": (BLOCK_HEADING, ""),
"deck": (BLOCK_DECK, ""),
"byline": (BLOCK_BYLINE, ""),
"caption": (BLOCK_CAPTION, ""),
"pullquote": (BLOCK_PULLQUOTE, ""),
"sidebar": (BLOCK_SIDEBAR, ""),
"page_number": (BLOCK_FURNITURE, "page_number"),
"source": (BLOCK_FURNITURE, "source"),
"ad": (BLOCK_AD, ""),
"image": ("", ""),
}
def change_region_type(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int, region_id: str,
new_type: str,
vision_ocr_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_model: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_url: str | None = None,
vision_ocr_fallback_model: str | None = None,
timeout: float = 150.0) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], str]:
"""Change what a detected region is. Returns the new layout and the region's id afterwards.
Between text kinds only the type changes; the text and the box stay. Text to image crops the
box into a figure and drops the text block; image to text reads the box with OCR (a placeholder
when nothing is recognised, as for a hand-drawn region) and drops the figure. The id changes
when a region crosses between text and image, so the caller can move article membership over.
The page's reading order is recomputed, since a type decides where a region is read.
"""
if new_type not in REGION_TYPES:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown region type: {new_type}")
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta:
raise ValueError("Unknown page")
block = next((b for b in layout.get("blocks", []) if b["id"] == region_id and b["page"] == page_no), None)
image = next((im for im in layout.get("images", []) if im["id"] == region_id and im["page"] == page_no), None)
if block is None and image is None:
raise ValueError("Region not found on this page")
if new_type == "image":
if image is not None:
return layout, region_id
before = {im["id"] for im in layout.get("images", [])}
layout = add_manual_region(doc_dir, layout, page_no, block["bbox"], "image")
new_id = next(im["id"] for im in layout["images"] if im["id"] not in before)
return _reorder_page(delete_region(layout, region_id), page_no), new_id
block_type, region_label = REGION_TYPES[new_type]
if block is not None:
layout = dict(layout)
layout["blocks"] = [dict(b, type=block_type, region_label=region_label, confidence=1.0)
if b["id"] == region_id else b for b in layout.get("blocks", [])]
return _reorder_page(layout, page_no), region_id
# Image to text: read the box, then give the new block the chosen type.
before = {b["id"] for b in layout.get("blocks", [])}
layout = add_manual_region(doc_dir, delete_region(layout, region_id), page_no, image["bbox"], "text", "",
vision_ocr_url, vision_ocr_model,
vision_ocr_fallback_url, vision_ocr_fallback_model, timeout)
new_id = next(b["id"] for b in layout["blocks"] if b["id"] not in before)
layout["blocks"] = [dict(b, type=block_type, region_label=region_label) if b["id"] == new_id else b
for b in layout["blocks"]]
return _reorder_page(layout, page_no), new_id
def recompute_reading_order(layout: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], list[int]]:
"""Re-derive the reading order of every page in an issue, without any OCR.
For an issue ingested before the column detection improved. Only the order changes: text,
boxes, types, articles and approvals stay as they are, and a page whose order the reader set by
hand is left alone. Returns the layout and the pages whose order actually changed.
"""
changed: list[int] = []
for page_meta in layout.get("pages", []):
page_no = page_meta["page"]
before = [b["id"] for b in sorted((b for b in layout.get("blocks", []) if b["page"] == page_no),
key=lambda b: b.get("reading_order", 0))]
layout = _reorder_page(layout, page_no)
after = [b["id"] for b in sorted((b for b in layout.get("blocks", []) if b["page"] == page_no),
key=lambda b: b.get("reading_order", 0))]
if before != after:
changed.append(page_no)
return layout, changed
def _reorder_page(layout: dict[str, Any], page_no: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Recompute one page's reading order -- unless the reader fixed that order by hand."""
page_meta = next((p for p in layout.get("pages", []) if p["page"] == page_no), None)
if not page_meta or page_meta.get("order_locked"):
return layout
blocks = [Block(**b) for b in layout.get("blocks", [])]
page_blocks = [b for b in blocks if b.page == page_no]
assign_reading_order(page_blocks, page_meta["width"])
layout = dict(layout)
layout["blocks"] = [b.to_json() for b in [b for b in blocks if b.page != page_no] + page_blocks]
return layout
def delete_region(layout: dict[str, Any], block_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Remove a region the layout engine got wrong entirely (not just
misplaced). An article referencing this id in its own blocks/images
list is left as-is -- article_text() and the review screen already
treat an id no longer present in the layout as simply absent, the same
way a page re-OCR can already drop ids an article still lists."""
layout = dict(layout)
layout["blocks"] = [b for b in layout.get("blocks", []) if b["id"] != block_id]
layout["images"] = [im for im in layout.get("images", []) if im["id"] != block_id]
return layout
def save_layout(doc_dir: Path, layout: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
(doc_dir / "layout.json").write_text(
json.dumps(layout, ensure_ascii=False), "utf-8")
def load_layout(doc_dir: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
path = doc_dir / "layout.json"
if not path.is_file():
return {}
try:
return json.loads(path.read_text("utf-8"))
except (ValueError, OSError):
return {}
def save_articles(doc_dir: Path, articles: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> None:
(doc_dir / "articles.json").write_text(
json.dumps({"articles": articles}, ensure_ascii=False), "utf-8")
def load_articles(doc_dir: Path) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
path = doc_dir / "articles.json"
if not path.is_file():
return []
try:
return json.loads(path.read_text("utf-8")).get("articles", [])
except (ValueError, OSError):
return []
BLOCK_FIGURE_DESCRIPTION = "figure_description"
def article_text(layout: dict[str, Any], article: dict[str, Any],
include_captions: bool = False,
include_descriptions: bool = False) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""The narratable text of one article, in reading order.
Returned per block so the player can highlight the source region and jump
to the originating PDF page.
A figure/chart/table/code region has no text block of its own to
narrate -- see describe_visual_region() -- so an already-described
image belonging to this article is synthesised into a
BLOCK_FIGURE_DESCRIPTION entry at that image's own reading position when
`include_descriptions` is set. Optional and off by default: generating
a description costs a vision-model call the user may not have wanted
for every figure, and a description read aloud mid-article changes the
listening experience enough that it should be an explicit choice, not a
silent side effect of one being available.
"""
wanted = set(article.get("blocks") or [])
types = set(NARRATABLE) | ({BLOCK_CAPTION} if include_captions else set())
blocks = [
dict(b, text=strip_continuation_markers(b["text"]))
for b in layout.get("blocks", [])
if b["id"] in wanted and b["type"] in types
]
if include_descriptions:
wanted_images = set(article.get("images") or [])
for img in layout.get("images", []):
description = (img.get("description") or "").strip()
if img["id"] not in wanted_images or not description:
continue
blocks.append({
"id": f"desc-{img['id']}", "page": img["page"], "bbox": img["bbox"],
"type": BLOCK_FIGURE_DESCRIPTION, "text": description,
"reading_order": img.get("reading_order", 0),
})
blocks.sort(key=lambda b: (b["page"], b["reading_order"]))
return blocks