The colon exclusion was preventing legitimate headings like "Steps for
Using the Microscope:" and "Changing objectives:" from being detected.
The single edge case it was protecting (chart sub-headers) is less
impactful than the many headings it was blocking.
Benchmark improvement: MHS 0.51→0.52, MHS-S 0.61→0.62.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bold lines at body font size that are standalone (preceded by a paragraph
break) and have ≥3 words are promoted to headings. This catches the
common pattern in academic/technical PDFs where section headings use
bold text at the same size as body text.
Guards against false positives: minimum word count, colon-ending
exclusion (labels like "Table I:").
Benchmark improvement: MHS 0.37→0.50, overall 0.71→0.75.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop column-width padding from table output. Saves ~37% bytes on
table-heavy PDFs. Markdown renders identically — padding was purely
cosmetic. Optimizes token efficiency for AI agent consumers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a PDF page has a graph directly above a table (e.g. Figure 2 above
Table II in real-estate-pricing.pdf), the heuristic table detector would
merge graph axis labels and legend items into the table, producing a
corrupted result.
Add rect hint regions: when a small cluster of cell-border rects (4-6)
fails full grid validation (e.g. only row borders, no column dividers),
extract their Y bounding box as a "hint region". The heuristic detector
then runs separately on items inside vs outside hint regions, preventing
unrelated content from being merged into tables.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rects spanning multiple grid rows (e.g. classification labels) now have
their text consolidated into the first sub-row via propagate_merged_cells().
Also prevent continuation-row merge from folding body data into the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add 5 stripped public-domain PDF fixtures and golden markdown snapshots
for CI regression testing. Fix non-deterministic output caused by
HashMap iteration order in font stats, table heuristics, and rect
clustering by adding deterministic tie-breaking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
