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>
