detect_lines: derive column edges from horizontal-segment endpoints (#86)

Some catalog and archival-finding-aid tables draw each row's
horizontal rule as N segments (one segment per cell) with no vertical
lines at all. The previous detector rejected these outright at
`verticals.len() < 2`, even though the segment break points encoded
the column boundaries unambiguously.

When the vertical-line count is below the existing threshold, walk
the horizontal-segment x-endpoints and cluster them with the same
snap_edges path used for vertical-line columns. Accept the derived
edges only when ≥3 distinct x-positions each appear on ≥50% of the
unique horizontal-line rows — that consistency guard distinguishes
real per-cell segments from decorative rules with varying widths
(which never share endpoints across many rows).

When columns come from segment endpoints, skip the downstream
"spanning_v / partial_v" gate (there are no vertical lines to
validate against). All other gates — horizontal-span coverage,
content density, capture ratio, multi-column distribution, the
uniform-spacing chart-grid rejector — still apply.

Verified on a 7-row × 3-col archival catalog page that previously
extracted 98 chars (a 2-row fragment via the heuristic fallback); now
extracts 1754 chars with all rows + multi-line cells.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Abimael Martell
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