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Chris CoutinhoandClaude Opus 4.8 044c1da750 feat: tier-0 document classifier in shadow mode
First step of the tiered document-processor effort (Deck #203): a cheap, local
pre-pass that recommends which extraction tier a PDF should start in, emitting
metrics WITHOUT changing routing yet -- so we gather per-tenant doc-mix data
before turning escalation on.

document_processors/classifier.py: classify_pdf(content) -> DocClassification.
Page-sampled (bounded on large docs), <~1s. Cheap signals only -- text-layer
chars, a text-quality score (catches the "Student 147" failure where a text
layer exists but is mashed/space-less junk), and image coverage. A page that is
mostly a raster image routes to OCR: its content (handwriting, stamps) isn't in
any text layer. Deliberately no get_drawings/graphics-density signal -- it's
slow on the exact pages it'd flag, the hotfix's graphics_limit already makes the
parse safe, and the (future) tier-1 quality gate catches lost tables.

Validated on the sample corpus: born-digital 2-col arxiv and a digital student
record -> fast (tier 1); a scanned+handwritten form -> ocr (tier 3).

Wiring (vector/processor.py): _shadow_classify runs the classifier on PDFs in a
worker thread, best-effort (never blocks/fails indexing), gated by the new
DOCUMENT_CLASSIFY_ENABLED setting. Metrics: astrolabe_document_classified_total
{recommended_tier}, astrolabe_document_classifier_flag_total{flag},
astrolabe_document_text_quality histogram.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-05 00:12:25 +02:00

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"""Tier-0 document classifier.
A cheap (<~1s), local pre-pass over a PDF that decides which extraction tier a
document should start in, BEFORE the expensive parse. It runs in *shadow mode*
first: emit the signals as metrics, change no routing, and gather per-tenant
data to tune the thresholds.
Signals (all cheap; no get_drawings, which is itself slow on the graphics-heavy
pages we'd want to flag -- the parse-time ``graphics_limit`` already makes those
safe, and the tier-1 quality gate catches unrecovered tables post-extraction):
* text_layer_chars -- extractable text per page
* text_quality -- is the text layer usable, or mashed/space-less junk?
(the "Student 147" lesson: a text layer can exist yet
be unusable, e.g. "01322234567mobile")
* image_coverage -- fraction of the page covered by raster images
(full-page image + poor text => scanned)
From these it picks a recommended starting tier:
* ``ocr`` -- scanned / image-only / bad-text-layer (route to tier 3)
* ``fast`` -- a usable digital text layer (route to tier 1)
``structured`` (tier 2 / docling) is intentionally not produced here -- that tier
is a separate service and is reached via the tier-1 quality gate, not tier-0.
"""
import logging
import re
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# Page-sampling: classify at most this many pages on large docs (evenly spaced)
# so the pass stays bounded regardless of page count.
MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES = 24
# A page counts as "scanned-like" when a raster image covers most of it.
IMAGE_COVERAGE_SCANNED = 0.80
# Text-quality score below which the layer is treated as junk (mashed tokens).
MIN_TEXT_QUALITY = 0.45
# Fraction of sampled pages that must look scanned/bad for a doc->ocr verdict.
OCR_PAGE_FRACTION = 0.5
_WORD_RE = re.compile(r"\S+")
@dataclass
class PageSignals:
page_no: int
char_count: int
image_coverage: float # 0..1 of page area covered by images
text_quality: float # 0..1; low = mashed/space-less/garbage layer
needs_ocr: bool # scanned or unusable text layer
@dataclass
class DocClassification:
page_count: int
sampled_pages: int
total_chars: int
mean_text_quality: float
ocr_page_fraction: float # fraction of sampled pages flagged needs_ocr
recommended_tier: str # "fast" | "ocr"
flags: set[str] = field(
default_factory=set
) # scanned | bad_text_layer | image_heavy
pages: list[PageSignals] = field(default_factory=list)
def _text_quality(text: str) -> float:
"""Score a text layer's usability in ``[0, 1]`` (1 = clean prose).
Penalises the two hallmarks of a junk/OCR-mangled layer: too little
whitespace (words mashed together) and very long tokens. Empty text scores
0 -- "no usable layer".
"""
if not text:
return 0.0
tokens = _WORD_RE.findall(text)
if not tokens:
return 0.0
whitespace_ratio = sum(c.isspace() for c in text) / len(text)
mean_token_len = sum(len(t) for t in tokens) / len(tokens)
overlong_frac = sum(len(t) > 20 for t in tokens) / len(tokens)
# Clean prose: ~15-20% whitespace, mean token ~4-6 chars, ~no overlong tokens.
ws_score = min(whitespace_ratio / 0.12, 1.0)
len_score = (
1.0 if mean_token_len <= 10 else max(0.0, 1.0 - (mean_token_len - 10) / 15)
)
overlong_score = max(0.0, 1.0 - overlong_frac * 5)
return round(ws_score * len_score * overlong_score, 3)
def _sample_indices(page_count: int) -> list[int]:
if page_count <= MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES:
return list(range(page_count))
# Evenly spaced sample across the document.
step = page_count / MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES
return sorted({int(i * step) for i in range(MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES)})
def classify_pdf(content: bytes) -> DocClassification:
"""Classify a PDF from its bytes.
May raise (e.g. ``pymupdf`` errors) if the bytes can't be opened as a PDF;
callers run it in a guarded context (shadow mode swallows failures) so a
bad file never breaks indexing.
"""
import pymupdf # noqa: PLC0415 -- keep the heavy import lazy / off module load
doc = pymupdf.open("pdf", content)
try:
page_count = doc.page_count
indices = _sample_indices(page_count)
pages: list[PageSignals] = []
for n in indices:
page = doc.load_page(n)
text = page.get_text("text")
quality = _text_quality(text)
page_area = abs(page.rect.width * page.rect.height) or 1.0
img_area = 0.0
for img in page.get_images(full=True):
for rect in page.get_image_rects(img[0]):
img_area += abs(rect.width * rect.height)
coverage = min(img_area / page_area, 1.0)
# A page that is mostly a raster image is a scan/photo: its content
# (handwriting, stamps, figure text) is not fully in any text layer,
# so OCR is needed to capture it -- regardless of whether a partial
# text layer is present. Text quality/char-count are kept as
# diagnostic signals (flags + tuning metrics), not the trigger,
# because OCR only helps when there is an image to read.
needs_ocr = coverage >= IMAGE_COVERAGE_SCANNED
pages.append(
PageSignals(n, len(text), round(coverage, 3), quality, needs_ocr)
)
finally:
doc.close()
sampled = len(pages)
total_chars = sum(p.char_count for p in pages)
mean_quality = (
round(sum(p.text_quality for p in pages) / sampled, 3) if sampled else 0.0
)
ocr_frac = (sum(p.needs_ocr for p in pages) / sampled) if sampled else 0.0
flags: set[str] = set()
if any(p.image_coverage >= IMAGE_COVERAGE_SCANNED for p in pages):
flags.add("image_heavy")
if (
ocr_frac >= OCR_PAGE_FRACTION
and total_chars
and mean_quality < MIN_TEXT_QUALITY
):
flags.add("bad_text_layer")
if ocr_frac >= OCR_PAGE_FRACTION and total_chars == 0:
flags.add("scanned")
recommended = "ocr" if ocr_frac >= OCR_PAGE_FRACTION else "fast"
return DocClassification(
page_count=page_count,
sampled_pages=sampled,
total_chars=total_chars,
mean_text_quality=mean_quality,
ocr_page_fraction=round(ocr_frac, 3),
recommended_tier=recommended,
flags=flags,
pages=pages,
)