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Chris CoutinhoandClaude Opus 4.8 b1f347b8fc feat: quality + scan OCR escalation trigger (junk-text-layer scans)
The hot-path classifier escalated to OCR purely on character count, so a
scanned/handwritten PDF with a low-quality embedded text layer (>16 chars/page
but garbled) routed `fast` and indexed the junk -- e.g. Student 147.pdf's
"Little Acoms Primary"/"0110912020", which pollutes the vector and demotes the
doc in search (Deck #207).

- classifier: recalibrate `_text_quality` with a long-token-fraction term that
  detects word-merging (dropped inter-word spaces) -- the dominant junk-layer
  failure the old whitespace/overlong(>20) terms missed. Measured: the Student
  147 scan ~0.42 (60% pages junk) vs >=0.94 for clean digital docs.
- classify_from_text now routes on quality + scan: a page is OCR-worthy if
  near-empty OR low text-quality OR (when OCR + scan detection are enabled) it's
  mostly a raster image. New `image_coverage_per_page` re-opens the PDF for the
  scan signal, so that cost is paid only by OCR-opted-in tenants. Thresholds are
  passed in from per-tenant settings (keyword-only).
- config: 4 per-tenant settings -- DOCUMENT_OCR_MIN_TEXT_QUALITY (0.5),
  DOCUMENT_OCR_PAGE_FRACTION (0.5), DOCUMENT_OCR_MIN_PAGE_CHARS (16),
  DOCUMENT_OCR_DETECT_SCANNED (true) -- with range validators.
- metrics: new astrolabe_document_ocr_page_fraction histogram (the value the
  page-fraction threshold acts on) alongside document_text_quality, so operators
  can tune the OCR escalation per tenant (quality vs cost).

Escalation gate, OCR backends, and off-by-default behavior unchanged (#858).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-05 04:44:15 +02:00

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"""Tier-0 document classifier.
Decides which extraction tier a PDF should escalate to, from cheap signals:
* 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 -- a page that is mostly a raster image is a scan/photo whose
content isn't fully in any text layer.
* no text layer -- the strongest OCR signal available from text alone.
Two entry points:
* ``classify_from_text(text, page_boundaries, ...)`` -- the HOT PATH. Routes on
text-quality + near-empty pages derived from the tier-1 extraction (~no
cost). When OCR + scan-detection are enabled the registry also passes
per-page ``image_coverage`` (from ``image_coverage_per_page``) so scans are
caught too; that image pass is the only added cost and only OCR-opted-in
tenants pay it. Thresholds come from per-tenant settings.
* ``classify_pdf(content)`` -- a standalone/diagnostic pass that re-opens the
PDF and does image-coverage analysis inline. Off the hot path.
Recommended tier:
* ``ocr`` -- scanned / no-usable-text-layer (route to tier 3, when enabled)
* ``fast`` -- a usable digital text layer (stay on tier 1)
``structured`` (tier 2 / docling) is a separate service, not produced here.
"""
import logging
import re
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Any
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
# A page with fewer extracted chars than this has effectively no text layer.
MIN_PAGE_CHARS = 16
_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)
# Word-merging (dropped inter-word spaces) is the dominant junk-text-layer
# failure mode on scanned forms -- the older whitespace/overlong(>20) terms
# miss it, because the merges are 10-20 chars and a few dropped spaces still
# leave whitespace above the 0.12 cap. Clean prose keeps <~3% of tokens above
# 12 chars; merged/OCR-mangled layers push it past 10%. (Measured: the junk
# Student-147 scan scores ~0.20 here vs >=0.9 for clean digital docs.)
long_frac = sum(len(t) > 12 for t in tokens) / len(tokens)
# Caps at 1.0 from 12% whitespace (conservative; clean prose runs 15-20%),
# 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)
merge_score = max(0.0, 1.0 - max(0.0, long_frac - 0.03) / 0.12)
return round(ws_score * len_score * overlong_score * merge_score, 3)
def _sample_indices(page_count: int) -> list[int]:
if page_count <= MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES:
return list(range(page_count))
# Evenly spaced sample that always includes the first AND last page, so a
# scanned tail on an otherwise-digital doc isn't missed. Rounding collisions
# just yield a slightly smaller (still bounded) sample.
last = page_count - 1
return sorted(
{round(i * last / (MAX_SAMPLED_PAGES - 1)) 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
with pymupdf.open("pdf", content) as doc:
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)
# Approximate: an image placed multiple times (tiled backgrounds) is
# double-counted, so img_area can exceed page_area -- the min() caps
# coverage at 1.0, which is all the scanned/digital split needs.
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)
)
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 are diagnostic signals, intentionally independent of the routing
# verdict: image_heavy fires if ANY page is image-heavy, while the OCR route
# needs a FRACTION of pages (OCR_PAGE_FRACTION). So a mostly-digital doc with
# one full-page photo is flagged image_heavy yet still routes "fast" -- the
# flag_total{image_heavy} count is expected to exceed classified{ocr}.
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,
)
def image_coverage_per_page(content: bytes) -> list[float]:
"""Raster-image coverage in ``[0, 1]`` for every page (document order).
Lets the hot path flag scanned pages whose embedded text layer is junk but
statistically clean-looking. Re-opens the PDF, so the registry calls it only
when OCR + scan detection are enabled (the cost is borne by OCR-opted-in
tenants). Returned list is aligned by index with the page boundaries.
"""
import pymupdf # noqa: PLC0415 -- keep the heavy import lazy
cov: list[float] = []
with pymupdf.open("pdf", content) as doc:
for n in range(doc.page_count):
page = doc.load_page(n)
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)
cov.append(min(img_area / page_area, 1.0))
return cov
def classify_from_text(
full_text: str,
page_boundaries: list[dict[str, Any]],
*,
min_text_quality: float = MIN_TEXT_QUALITY,
min_page_chars: int = MIN_PAGE_CHARS,
page_fraction: float = OCR_PAGE_FRACTION,
image_coverage: list[float] | None = None,
) -> DocClassification:
"""Classify from text already extracted by tier-1 -- no PDF re-open by default.
The hot-path classifier. A page is OCR-worthy when its text is near-empty
(``< min_page_chars``), its text-quality is junk (``< min_text_quality`` --
the word-merging signal), OR (when ``image_coverage`` is supplied, i.e. OCR +
scan-detection are on) the page is mostly a raster image. The doc recommends
``ocr`` once ``ocr_frac >= page_fraction``. Thresholds are passed in by the
registry from per-tenant settings.
``page_boundaries`` are ``{page, start_offset, end_offset}`` indexing into
``full_text``; ``image_coverage[i]`` (if given) aligns with the i-th boundary.
"""
pages: list[PageSignals] = []
for idx, b in enumerate(page_boundaries):
seg = full_text[b["start_offset"] : b["end_offset"]]
quality = _text_quality(seg)
# image_coverage is one entry per PDF page, aligned 1:1 with the
# boundaries; the length guard is belt-and-suspenders against a mismatch.
cov = (
image_coverage[idx]
if image_coverage is not None and idx < len(image_coverage)
else 0.0
)
needs_ocr = (
len(seg.strip()) < min_page_chars
or quality < min_text_quality
or cov >= IMAGE_COVERAGE_SCANNED
)
pages.append(
PageSignals(b["page"], len(seg), round(cov, 3), quality, needs_ocr)
)
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
)
# No pages (empty/corrupt PDF) => no OCR evidence => "fast" (the registry's
# page_count guard also skips escalation; defaulting to 0.0 keeps the
# recorded classification metric accurate rather than a misleading "ocr").
ocr_frac = (sum(p.needs_ocr for p in pages) / sampled) if sampled else 0.0
# Flags gated on ocr_frac >= page_fraction (matching classify_pdf): a doc that
# routes "fast" must not carry a junk-layer flag just because a few isolated
# pages are bad -- otherwise the metric diverges from classify_pdf.
flags: set[str] = set()
if sampled and ocr_frac >= page_fraction:
if total_chars == 0:
flags.add("no_text_layer")
elif mean_quality < min_text_quality:
flags.add("bad_text_layer")
if any(p.image_coverage >= IMAGE_COVERAGE_SCANNED for p in pages):
flags.add("image_heavy")
recommended = "ocr" if ocr_frac >= page_fraction else "fast"
return DocClassification(
page_count=len(page_boundaries),
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,
)