feat(vector): replace inline page-image payloads with chunk_bbox (Deck #76)

Per-chunk PDF page renders (~150–700 KB base64 PNG each) were the dominant
disk consumer in production, repeatedly tripping `No space left on device:
WAL buffer size exceeds available disk space` on welcomed-malamute Qdrant.

Replace the inline highlighted_page_image / highlighted_page_number /
highlight_count fields with a small `chunk_bbox` field:
list[(x0, y0, x1, y1)] of normalized [0, 1] floats, ~32 bytes per chunk.
Astrolabe (the only known consumer) renders the highlight client-side as
a percentage-positioned overlay on top of the existing /api/v1/pdf-preview
render-on-demand path (cbcoutinho/astrolabe#76).

- pdf_highlighter: new compute_chunk_bboxes_batch() that reuses the
  existing _find_chunk_bbox text-search path, skipping all pixmap/PIL/PNG
  work.
- processor: store chunk_bbox + chunk_bbox_page in the Qdrant payload,
  drop highlighted_page_image + friends, drop the base64 import.
- visualization /api/v1/chunk-context and auth/viz_routes: read
  chunk_bbox instead of highlighted_page_image.
- vector/__init__: stop eagerly re-exporting `processor`/`scanner` —
  fixes a pre-existing circular import (search.algorithms ->
  vector.placeholder -> vector/__init__ -> processor -> scanner ->
  server.semantic -> search.bm25_hybrid -> search.algorithms partial).
  Test suite that was broken on master (test_bm25_hybrid.py et al.) now
  collects and passes.
- scripts/purge_page_images.py: ad-hoc, idempotent migration that
  delete_payload's the legacy keys from existing points. No reindex
  required; legacy chunks render the page with no overlay.

Pairs with cbcoutinho/astrolabe#76. Frontend handles missing chunk_bbox
gracefully, so this can land in either order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chris Coutinho
2026-05-08 21:16:00 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
parent 2e1ab99a88
commit ee402ea00e
8 changed files with 428 additions and 72 deletions
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@@ -604,8 +604,10 @@ async def chunk_context_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
f"after_len={len(chunk_context.after_context)}"
)
# For PDF files, also fetch the highlighted page image from Qdrant
highlighted_page_image = None
# For PDF files, also fetch the chunk bbox from Qdrant so the client
# can overlay a highlight on top of a render-on-demand page image
# (Deck #76).
chunk_bbox = None
page_number = None
if doc_type == "file":
try:
@@ -613,7 +615,6 @@ async def chunk_context_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
qdrant_client = await get_qdrant_client()
username = request.user.display_name
# Query for this specific chunk's highlighted image
points_response = await qdrant_client.scroll(
collection_name=settings.get_collection_name(),
scroll_filter=Filter(
@@ -635,22 +636,20 @@ async def chunk_context_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
),
limit=1,
with_vectors=False,
with_payload=["highlighted_page_image", "page_number"],
with_payload=["chunk_bbox", "page_number"],
)
points = points_response[0]
if points and points[0].payload:
highlighted_page_image = points[0].payload.get(
"highlighted_page_image"
)
chunk_bbox = points[0].payload.get("chunk_bbox")
page_number = points[0].payload.get("page_number")
if highlighted_page_image:
if chunk_bbox:
logger.info(
f"Found highlighted image for chunk: "
f"page={page_number}, image_size={len(highlighted_page_image)}"
f"Found chunk bbox: page={page_number}, "
f"rects={len(chunk_bbox)}"
)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Failed to fetch highlighted image: {e}")
logger.warning(f"Failed to fetch chunk bbox: {e}")
# Return response compatible with frontend expectations
response_data: dict = {
@@ -662,9 +661,8 @@ async def chunk_context_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
"has_more_after": chunk_context.has_after_truncation,
}
# Add image data if available
if highlighted_page_image:
response_data["highlighted_page_image"] = highlighted_page_image
if chunk_bbox:
response_data["chunk_bbox"] = chunk_bbox
response_data["page_number"] = page_number
return JSONResponse(response_data)