The OOM hotfix (#852) set graphics_limit=5000, which caught the 955k-drawing
bomb but let a second pathology through: form/table PDFs (e.g. student records)
have ~1.5k grid-line vector drawings per page -- under 5000, so uncapped. With
those pages uncapped, pymupdf4llm's O(n^2) find_tables grinds ~17s/page, so a
7-page form hits the 120s timeout. All 6 current backfill parse failures in
tenant-blackbox-demo are this exact timeout (zero OOM, zero error).
Measured on a 7-page sample: graphics_limit=2000 -> 119s (timeout), 1000 -> 2.9s
-- with identical extracted text and ZERO recovered tables either way (the
expensive analysis produces nothing useful on these dense forms). Lowering the
default to 1000 makes them index in ~3s; the bomb file (955k >> 1000) stays
capped, and pages with genuine simple tables (<1000 drawings) still get table
detection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
