* fix: detect hierarchical-indent TOCs as tables
Validation 1 (≥25% of rows have first col) and validation 9 (paragraph
content) were rejecting TOC pages where top-level chapters indent at the
leftmost X but subsections cascade further right. The leftmost column ends
up sparse (only chapter rows land there) and most cells are empty, but the
structure is still an unambiguous TOC.
Skip both validations when cells form a TOC pattern AND the table is narrow
(≤5 cols). The width cap preserves existing handling of wide multi-column
TOCs (e.g. back-of-book 2-up indices) where format_toc_as_list would mash
adjacent visual entries together.
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* fix: exclude TOC pages from pages_with_tables metadata
TOC detection routes through the table pipeline (detected as a table, then
formatted as a flat list with tab-aligned page numbers via
format_toc_as_list). That made TOC pages appear in LayoutComplexity's
pages_with_tables, which:
- Misleads downstream consumers that read this field as "this page has a
data table".
- Trips the table-page guard in column detection, which switches to a
different valley-detection threshold for table pages.
Add an is_table_of_contents check in compute_layout_complexity so TOC-shaped
detections don't count toward the table flag. The TOC still renders correctly
as a flat list — only the metadata classification changes.
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Validation 1 (≥25% of rows have first col) and validation 9 (paragraph
content) were rejecting TOC pages where top-level chapters indent at the
leftmost X but subsections cascade further right. The leftmost column ends
up sparse (only chapter rows land there) and most cells are empty, but the
structure is still an unambiguous TOC.
Skip both validations when cells form a TOC pattern AND the table is narrow
(≤5 cols). The width cap preserves existing handling of wide multi-column
TOCs (e.g. back-of-book 2-up indices) where format_toc_as_list would mash
adjacent visual entries together.
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The subset-GID-mismatch heuristic tripped whenever the CIDFont's W array
started at CID 0 and the ToUnicode CMap's minimum source CID was > 2.
That's the normal sparse layout for a correctly-subsetted Identity-H
font with a .notdef at CID 0 and actual glyphs at high CIDs (Cyrillic,
Arabic, etc.). The spurious remap to sequential CIDs, combined with
score_text penalizing non-Latin letters as "other", caused the garbled
CMap to win over the correct primary — spaces turned into %, digits
shifted into punctuation, and Latin letters got rewritten to Cyrillic
codepoints.
Check whether the W array actually covers the CMap's maximum source CID.
If it does, the font and CMap agree, no renumbering happened, and the
remap stays off. True mismatches (CMap CIDs outside W coverage) still
trigger the remap.
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Adds x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target to the napi package and CI build
matrix so the published @firecrawl/pdf-inspector npm package ships
native Windows binaries alongside Linux and macOS.
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* fix: reject dot-less tables of contents as heuristic table false-positive
The body-font heuristic table detector was firing on tagged PDF TOCs
whose entries are laid out as multi-column rows (section number, title,
page number) without dot leaders. Extend is_table_of_contents to flag
this pattern by requiring:
- 2+ columns and 4+ rows
- >=60% of rows start with a dotted section number (e.g. "4.3.1")
- >=70% of filled last-column cells are all-digit page numbers
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* format TOC tables as flat per-row list instead of dropping them
Keeping the previous approach (rejecting TOCs at detection time) meant
dot-less TOCs fell back to the column-aware text reader, which stacked
every section title first and dumped all page numbers at the end of the
region — so a reader saw a wall of titles followed by a wall of numbers.
Keep the detected Table, and in the formatter interleave the cells into
one line per row with the page number appended after a tab. The raw
(pre-clean) cells are used for the TOC check because clean_table_cells
can collapse genuine data tables into a TOC-looking shape.
Tightened is_table_of_contents to require both dot leaders AND page
numbers (previously dot-ratio alone was enough, which misfired on
register tables that use "..." as a continuation marker).
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* split TOC detection into dot-leader and tabular patterns
Previous is_table_of_contents rejected every TOC-shaped table at detect
time, dropping dot-leader TOCs that render well as flat-list output and
misclassifying data tables with trailing "..." cells as TOCs.
Now is_dot_leader_toc (structural + inline-leader) keeps per-row flat
layouts for the formatter, while only wide inline-leader indices are
rejected at detect time. row_cell_is_page_number accepts dashed
section-page IDs ("A-1", "5-21") and rejects decimals/thousands
separators; cell_has_trailing_leader requires alphabetic content so
numeric data-row labels ("1973 ... ") no longer qualify.
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* feat: add CLI bin to npm package
Installing `firecrawl-pdf-inspector` now provides a `pdf-inspector` CLI command.
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* chore: bump npm package version to 0.8.0
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* chore: bump npm package version to 1.0.0
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* fix: use first-glyph position for ActualText ligature items
The content stream parser emitted ActualText items (from BDC/Span
marked content) at the text matrix position captured at BDC entry.
When the content stream contains Td operators between BDC and the
first glyph Tj — common in PDFs generated by Google Docs, Figma,
and web-to-PDF tools — the BDC-entry position is on the previous
visual line while the actual glyph renders on the correct line.
This caused ligature glyphs (fi, fl, ff, etc.) wrapped in
ActualText spans to be positioned one text-leading offset above
their surrounding text. Downstream merge logic couldn't reconnect
them (different y-band), producing broken words like "fi" + "ndings"
instead of "findings" throughout the document.
Fix: capture the text matrix at the first Tj/TJ operation inside
the BDC block (after any Td repositioning), and use that as the
ActualText item's rendering position at EMC time. Falls back to the
BDC-entry position when no glyph ops occur inside the block.
One new variable, five insertion points, zero behavior change on
PDFs that don't use ActualText marked content.
* chore: allow clippy::collapsible_match for Rust 1.95
Rust 1.95 introduced the collapsible_match lint which flags `if`
blocks inside match arms that could be converted to match guards.
The content-stream parsers use this pattern extensively for
readability (match on PDF operator name, then check preconditions
like `in_text_block && !op.operands.is_empty()`). Allow crate-wide
rather than refactoring 21 match arms across the parser files.
* fix(detector): correct false flags for CID-encoded text and supplementary fonts (0.7.4)
The page classifier was over-aggressively flagging Mixed-PDF pages as
needing OCR in three distinct cases. Each is fixed at the root in
analyze_page_content / page_has_identity_h_no_tounicode / the
looks_like_scan check.
1. has_vector_text false positives on dense layouts
path_ops > text_ops*200 fired on pages with decorative paths
(column borders, dividers) alongside real selectable text. Added
a unique_alphanum_chars < 30 guard: real outlined-text pages have
very few unique alphanum chars (each glyph is a path), while
pages with real text + decorations have many.
2. Identity-H without ToUnicode flagged whole pages on supplementary fonts
page_has_identity_h_no_tounicode would flag a page if any single
Type0 font lacked ToUnicode and had no fallback CMap, even when
the page's actual text came from other decodable fonts (Type1
with ToUnicode, etc.). Rewrote to track both undecodable
Identity-H fonts AND other decodable fonts, only flagging when
no decodable text font is present.
3. CID-encoded text with ToUnicode misclassified as scan
looks_like_scan checked unique_alphanum_chars < 10 on raw string
operand bytes. CID-encoded fonts (Type0 with ToUnicode) emit
2-byte CID values that aren't ASCII alphanum, so the metric is
blind to them even when the text is fully decodable. Added a
has_decodable_text_fonts signal: when a page has decodable fonts
AND >= 10 text ops, the low alphanum count is treated as a CID
encoding artifact rather than evidence of a scan.
Validated against a broad PDF corpus:
- 6 known false-positive pages now correctly classified as text
- 22 previously-missed scan pages (cover/blank/photo) now correctly
flagged for OCR
- 0 regressions on truly-scanned PDFs (61/61 pages stay flagged)
- All 437 existing tests pass; clippy clean
Bumps NAPI package to 0.7.4.
* test(detector): add unit tests for the three classifier fixes
Adds 10 unit tests covering the heuristic changes:
- has_vector_text alphanum guard
- real text + decorative paths → not flagged
- true outlined glyphs (low alphanum) → still flagged
- page_has_identity_h_no_tounicode supplementary-font handling
- undecodable Identity-H + decodable Type1 → not flagged (new)
- undecodable Identity-H alone → still flagged (regression)
- page_has_decodable_text_fonts (new helper)
- Type1 → true
- Type0 with ToUnicode → true
- undecodable Identity-H only → false
- looks_like_scan with has_decodable_text_fonts override
- CID-encoded decodable text → not flagged as scan
- same metrics with no decodable fonts → still flagged
- decodable fonts but text_ops < 10 (page-number overlay) → still flagged
* fix(detector): make decodable-font checks usage-based and XObject-aware
Addresses two reviewer concerns on the previous heuristic fix:
P1 — resource-based check could create an inverse bug
page_has_identity_h_no_tounicode and page_has_decodable_text_fonts
iterated all fonts in the page Resources dict, including unused fonts.
A page whose actual text was rendered exclusively in an undecodable
Identity-H font but whose Resources also listed an unused decodable
Type1 would be wrongly unflagged.
Fix: parse Tf operator operands during content stream scanning to
collect the set of font names actually referenced. The font checks
now filter to only USED fonts via a new used_fonts_have_*
family of functions operating on (used_font_names, font_map).
P2 — checks didn't follow text into Form XObjects
analyze_page_content correctly recurses through Form XObjects via
scan_xobjects_in_resources, but the font checks only looked at the
page's top-level Resources/Font. Pages that render text through Form
XObjects (corporate templates, header/footer overlays) had their
XObject font resources missed entirely.
Fix: scan_xobjects_in_resources now propagates the used_font_names
set AND collects fonts from each Form XObject's own Resources into
the shared font_map. The usage-based check sees the full picture:
page-level fonts + every nested XObject's fonts, intersected with
fonts actually referenced by Tf operators anywhere in the content.
Implementation:
- New extract_font_name_before_tf helper (parses /Name immediately
preceding Tf).
- New FontInfo struct caches font properties per-name.
- New collect_fonts_from_resource_dict + new used_fonts_have_*
functions are pure filters over (used_names, font_map).
- analyze_page_content threads used_font_names + font_map through
page content scan and XObject recursion, then runs the new checks.
- Old resource-based functions kept as #[cfg(test)] for the existing
unit-test interface.
- Phase 3 uncached-page loop now goes through analyze_page_content
so it also gets the usage-based + XObject-aware behavior.
Tests added (8):
- extract_font_name_before_tf basic + long-name parsing
- scan_content_for_text_operators collects used font names
- P1 — unused decodable font in Resources doesn't save a page
whose used font is undecodable
- P1 — both fonts used → decodable font correctly prevents flag
- P2 — decodable font inside Form XObject correctly unflags
- P2 — undecodable font only in XObject still flags even with
unused decodable font at page level
- P2 — has_decodable_text_fonts populated from XObject fonts
Validation:
- 349 lib + 104 integration + 2 doc tests pass (was 341)
- cargo clippy --lib --bin detect-pdf -- -D warnings: clean
- External eval: 9/9 PDFs pass, 6/6 false positives resolved,
0 regressions, 61/61 scanned pages still correctly flagged
- No eval delta — confirms previous fix wasn't relying on the
resource-based bug for any of the eval PDFs
* fix(detector): scope font lookups by ObjectId + handle indirect Form Resources
Addresses two more reviewer findings on the previous decodable-font commit.
P1 — Resource-name scoping bug
The previous fix keyed used_font_names and font_map by raw resource
names like b"F1". PDF resource names are scoped to each resource
dictionary: a Form XObject can legally define its own /F1 that points
to a completely different font from the page's /F1. Because
collect_fonts_from_resource_dict skipped duplicates with
`if font_map.contains_key(name)`, the first definition won and later
Tf /F1 usages in different scopes resolved against the wrong font.
This could reintroduce both the undecodable-Identity-H false flag
and the decodable-CID false unflag depending on which side of the
collision happened to be inserted first.
Fix: switch the lookup mechanism from font names to font ObjectIds.
- font_map: HashMap<ObjectId, FontInfo> (was Vec<u8> keys)
- used_font_ids: HashSet<ObjectId> (was Vec<u8> names)
- new resolve_font_names_to_ids() runs immediately after each
content scan, against the resource dict in scope, to translate
the per-scope name set into ObjectIds.
Each Form XObject's content stream now resolves /F1 against THAT
XObject's own Resources, so name collisions are impossible by design.
Inline (no-ID) font dicts are skipped — extremely rare in practice
and have no stable key.
P2 — Indirect Form /Resources skipped
scan_xobjects_in_resources used `.as_dict()` on the Form's /Resources
entry, which returns None for indirect references. PDFs frequently
store /Resources as `X 0 R`, in which case font collection and
recursion were both skipped — even though the Tf usages inside the
XObject content had already been recorded.
Fix: handle Object::Reference(r) in addition to Object::Dictionary(d)
by resolving via doc.get_dictionary. Audited the rest of the file —
the other /Resources access points (analyze_page_images,
collect_images_from_resources) already handled both cases.
Tests added (4):
- P1 same-name-different-font (page undecodable, XObject decodable):
must NOT flag — XObject's text is decodable in its own scope.
- P1 inverse (page decodable, XObject undecodable, content uses
XObject /F1): MUST flag — undecodable text exists in real scope.
- P2 indirect Form /Resources: font discovery must still work when
/Resources is a `X 0 R` reference rather than inline.
- Combined regression: indirect Resources + name collision.
Validation:
- cargo test --release: 459 tests pass (353 lib + 104 integration + 2 doc)
- cargo clippy --lib --bin detect-pdf -- -D warnings: clean
- external eval (9 PDFs): 9/9 pass, 6/6 false positives resolved,
0 regressions, 61/61 truly-scanned pages still flagged
The behavior on the eval set is identical — confirms the correctness
fix isn't masking any change in classifier outcomes.
* fix(detector): respect resource shadowing when resolving page-content fonts
The previous ObjectId-based fix correctly scoped Form XObject fonts
but still violated PDF resource inheritance for page content. When a
page overrides /F1 from a parent /Pages node (different font dict for
the same name), get_page_resources returns the page's own /Resources
plus all ancestor /Resources dicts. The old code called
resolve_font_names_to_ids on each one and added every match to
used_font_ids — both font ObjectIds ended up in the used set even
though only the page's /F1 is actually visible to that page's content.
Per ISO 32000-1 §7.7.3.4, resource names are inherited with
shadowing semantics: the most-specific (deepest, closest to the page)
definition wins.
Fix:
- New lookup_font_id helper resolves a single name in a single dict.
- New resolve_with_shadowing iterates names, checking the page's own
/Resources first, then walking ancestors in most-specific-first
order (which is the order lopdf's get_page_resources returns).
First hit wins via a labeled `continue 'name` — subsequent
ancestors are skipped for that name.
- analyze_page_content's flat resolution loop replaced with one call
to resolve_with_shadowing.
Audit:
- XObject path is correct: each Form XObject already resolves names
against its OWN /Resources (XObjects don't inherit from page tree).
- font_map population is correct: keyed by ObjectId, so collecting
from all dicts builds the full available-fonts catalog. The bug
was only in the used-set resolution.
- Confirmed lopdf returns ancestors in most-specific-first order
(page → parent → grandparent → root), matching the shadowing
direction used here.
Tests added (3):
- page /F1 undecodable shadows parent's decodable /F1 → MUST flag
- page /F1 decodable shadows parent's undecodable /F1 → MUST NOT flag
- no override: page inherits parent's decodable /F1 → MUST NOT flag
Validation:
- cargo test --release: 462 tests pass (356 lib + 104 integration + 2 doc)
- cargo clippy --lib --bin detect-pdf -- -D warnings: clean
- external eval: 9/9, 0 regressions, 6/6 false positives resolved,
61/61 scanned pages still correctly flagged
The looks_like_scan check incorrectly used OR logic, causing any single
condition (image_count <= 1, text_ops < 50, alphanum < 10) to flag a page
as a scan. A real scan has ALL three: single full-page image AND low text
AND low alphanum. Text pages with one figure were falsely flagged for OCR.
Bump napi to 0.7.3.
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* fix: reduce false OCR recommendations for text PDFs with figure images
Two fixes in the detector:
1. Fix Tf operator parsing: some PDFs concatenate Tf directly with the
next operator (e.g. "25 Tf[<01>...") without whitespace. The scanner
now accepts [, (, <, / as valid followers, fixing font_changes being
reported as 0.
2. Distinguish text-with-figures from scanned-with-OCR: pages with
multiple images (image_count > 1) and strong text signals (text_ops
>= 50, alphanum >= 10) are recognized as text pages with figures,
not scanned templates. Scanned PDFs have exactly 1 full-page image.
This prevents academic papers, reports with charts, and similar PDFs
from being incorrectly classified as Mixed/OCR-needed when their text
is perfectly extractable.
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* chore: bump napi version to 0.7.2
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* fix: remove template image influence from page classification
Template images (large background/figure images) no longer affect
pages_needing_ocr. In the region-based pipeline, text regions are
extracted independently from image regions, and per-region needs_ocr
quality checks handle scanned-with-OCR garbage text.
Also makes the invisible text retry (for OCR text layers) trigger on
text quality rather than PDF type, so it works regardless of
classification.
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* Revert "fix: remove template image influence from page classification"
This reverts commit 100cbe5453.
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* fix: improve heuristic table detection for numeric columns and multi-line headers
Two fixes for tables that have clean extractable text but fail heuristic
structure detection:
1. Numeric column merge pass (grid.rs): After initial X-position
clustering, adjacent clusters are merged when one is sparse (header
text) and the other is dense with >50% numeric items (data column).
Multi-line wrapped headers often land slightly offset from their
data column — the merge closes gaps within 1.5× the clustering
threshold. New is_numeric_text() helper matches decimals, percentages,
negative numbers, and comma-separated thousands.
2. Duplicate-header skip (detect_heuristic.rs): Spanning super-headers
like "First Degree | First Degree | Higher Degree" contain duplicate
cells that trigger looks_like_partial_table_ex rejection. Now skips
rows with duplicate cells when a better header candidate exists
within the next 3 rows (higher fill ratio or numeric cells).
Tested on BITS Pilani university report (430 pages, 314 table pages).
Page 4 (multi-line header + numeric data) previously returned
needs_ocr=true; now correctly detects the table structure.
Eval: 197 PDFs, zero regressions, all 104+ tests pass, zero clippy.
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* bump version to 0.7.1
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Replace tag-based trigger with push-to-main trigger that detects
version changes in napi/package.json, removing the need for manual
git tags to publish new npm releases.
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Combine per-page markdown extraction with layout classification into a
single parse. extractPagesMarkdown now returns PagesExtractionResult with
pages_with_tables, pages_with_columns, pages_needing_ocr, and is_complex
alongside the per-page markdown — eliminating redundant PDF parses for
callers that need both.
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* add extract_pages_markdown_mem for per-page markdown extraction
Enables hybrid OCR pipelines to skip GPU render+layout for simple text
pages by providing per-page markdown with needs_ocr flags. Font stats
are computed document-wide for consistent header detection.
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* bump napi package version to 0.6.0
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Replace stringly-typed pdf_type and item_type fields with
#[napi(string_enum)] enums for proper TypeScript type checking.
Add link_url field to TextItem instead of encoding URL in the
item_type string.
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Two changes that reduce false needsOcr rejections without hurting quality:
1. Per-region GID check instead of per-page blanket rejection.
Previously, if ANY font on the page used GID-encoded glyphs (common
in logos, decorative fonts), ALL table and text regions on that page
were forced to GPU OCR via needsOcr=true. Now the page-level bail is
removed; per-region text quality checks (is_garbage_text, is_cid_garbage,
detect_encoding_issues) catch actual GID corruption in the extracted
content. Tables whose text is clean pass through even if an unrelated
font elsewhere on the page is GID-encoded.
2. Relaxed looks_like_partial_table for layout-assisted extraction.
When the layout model already identified a region as a table (i.e.,
extract_tables_in_regions_mem), boundary-detection heuristics are
less necessary — we're not guessing "is this a table?" anymore, only
"can we extract it correctly?". Relaxations:
- Numeric first header cell accepted (e.g., year "2024")
- 1 empty header cell allowed in 3+ column tables (merged headers)
- Sparse first data row threshold relaxed from 33% to 50%
Paragraph detection and duplicate-header checks remain strict.
Eval: 196/196 pass (full regression suite), 91/91 Rust tests pass
including 7 new layout-assisted validation tests. Zero regressions.
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Adds a 5th failure-mode check to looks_like_partial_table: when the
heuristic mis-detects text-wrapped paragraph prose as a multi-column
table, cells in the same column tend to start with lowercase letters
or continuation punctuation (commas, closing quotes) — because they're
actually sentence fragments. Real tables almost never have most data
cells starting lowercase.
Trigger: ≥2 cols, ≥4 data rows, ≥60% of non-empty data cells start
with lowercase or continuation punctuation → return needs_ocr=true.
Caught in the eval as the next-largest failure mode after the 0.4.1 fix:
PDFs 088, 182, 090 — heuristic produced "tables" like:
|Approval is needed from the|Acquisitions of|
|Treasurer if the acquisition|residential and|
|constitutes a "significant|agricultural|
|action," including acquiring an|land by foreign|
Reading column 1 top-to-bottom: "Approval is needed from the Treasurer
if the acquisition constitutes a 'significant action,' including
acquiring an interest..." — a paragraph, not tabular data.
Tests: 2 new tests (the 088-style failure case + a real multi-word
table that must NOT be flagged). All 11 looks_like_partial_table tests
pass; 323 unit + 91 integration tests still green.
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When the heuristic returns markdown that looks like a partial / mis-detected
table, set needs_ocr=true so the caller falls back to GPU OCR. Previously the
same cases returned the broken table with needs_ocr=false, which produced
real-world TEDS=0 scores in fire-pdf evals (heuristic-built table didn't
match ground truth structure at all, but caller had no signal to fall back).
Four failure modes detected, all observed in opendataloader-bench eval losses:
1. **Header looks like a data row** — first cell of header is a bare number
(e.g. `|2|...`), suggesting the actual header row was skipped. Real
headers almost never start with just a number.
2. **Empty header cells in a multi-column table** — ≥3 cols, ≥1 empty cell
in the header row. Indicates poor column boundary detection.
3. **Duplicate header cells** — same non-empty value appearing twice in the
header (e.g. "Administration|Administration"). Means a multi-line header
was collapsed wrong.
4. **Sparse first data row** — ≥3 cols and ≥1/3 of first-data-row cells are
empty. Multi-row headers in the source PDF get smashed into header +
sparse data row by the heuristic; this catches that.
Tests: 9 new unit tests in `looks_like_partial_table_tests` cover each
failure mode plus realistic non-failures (well-formed table, single-column
list, two-col with a single empty cell). All 91 existing tests still pass.
Bumps `napi/package.json` to 0.4.1 since this changes the function's return
behaviour for callers (some inputs that returned needs_ocr=false now return
true). The output text field is also cleared on the new fallback path so
callers don't accidentally use the broken markdown.
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Adds a new function that takes a PDF buffer and page+bbox regions (same interface
as extractTextInRegions), runs heuristic table detection on items within each region,
and returns markdown pipe-tables. Falls back to needs_ocr=true when no table
structure is found or text quality is suspect.
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Some PDFs (e.g. British Academy grant guidance, Carter BloodCare privacy
policy) have structure trees that incorrectly tag body text as H2 headings.
This caused every line within numbered paragraphs to render as a separate
## heading instead of being joined into flowing paragraph text.
Added detect_overused_struct_heading_levels() which pre-scans heading tag
frequency and suppresses levels appearing on >15% of tagged lines, allowing
those lines to fall through to normal paragraph joining.
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The detector flagged pages for OCR whenever any font was Identity-H
without ToUnicode, even when the extraction pipeline could decode the
font via fallback paths (CID-as-Unicode passthrough or embedded TrueType
cmap). This caused false positives on PDFs from Chromium, wkhtmltopdf,
and other generators that use Identity-H with Unicode CID values.
Now checks DescendantFonts W array and embedded font cmap before
flagging. Fonts that are genuinely undecodable (stripped cmap, low GID
CIDs) are still correctly flagged.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Do invokes any XObject (Form or Image), but scan_content_for_text_operators
was counting every Do as an image. PDFs with Form XObjects (e.g. ACS
publisher watermark pages) were misclassified as ImageBased because the
inflated image_count raised the min text ops threshold above the actual
text operator count.
Image detection is already correctly handled by scan_xobjects_in_resources
(checks Subtype) and analyze_page_images (measures pixel area).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
In multi-column PDFs, column switches break paragraph continuity,
making body text lines appear "standalone". Combined with moderate
font-size rarity from minor size variation between columns, this
caused hundreds of false heading classifications (e.g. 281 false ##
headings on a single academic paper).
Non-bold, non-isolated lines now require very high rarity (≥0.97)
and short word count (≤8) to qualify as headings via the rarity path.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When fire-pdf sends pre-segmented bboxes from the layout model,
pdf-inspector no longer runs column detection, stream-order heuristics,
or newspaper/tabular mode detection within the region. These heuristics
conflict with the layout model's decisions and cause wrong reading order.
Region extraction now simply: Y-sorts items, groups into lines, and
sorts within each line by X position. The heavy heuristics remain
available for standalone full-page extraction.
Eval showed pure OCR (0.2875 NED) beating native+heuristics (0.2916)
across all categories, especially multi-column (-0.08) and newspaper
(-0.16). This change should close that gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-scan lines to identify "isolated" ones — short lines (1-6 words)
with paragraph breaks both before AND after. These are heading
candidates even at body font size, common in academic papers
("Acknowledgements", "Limitations", "B.3 Prompt Engineering").
Inspired by opendataloader's HeadingProcessor which passes prevNode
and nextNode context to the heading probability scorer.
The isolated signal (+0.3) combines with rarity/bold/standalone
signals. A per-page density guard prevents false positives on
multi-column pages where many lines appear isolated. Continuation
word detection (ending in "the", "and", etc.) filters wrapped
paragraph lines.
MHS=0 docs: 18→13. MHS-S +0.004. No regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the histogram-based column detector finds no valleys (common with
sidebar/asymmetric layouts), fall back to a simplified XY-cut: find the
largest horizontal gap between item edges and split there if both sides
have enough items with vertical overlap.
Inspired by opendataloader's XY-Cut++ algorithm but implemented as a
single-level fallback rather than full recursive segmentation.
Doc 156: NID 0.545→0.966, Doc 157: NID 0.564→0.962.
NID-S +0.007, TEDS-S +0.066 across 200 docs. No regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PDFs that draw table borders as thin filled rectangles (< 2pt, common in
spreadsheet exports) were invisible to both rect-based and line-based
table detectors. Now converts these thin rects to PdfLine objects and
runs line-based detection, but ONLY as a last resort after all other
methods (rect, line, heuristic, column-based) found nothing.
This avoids the regression from the earlier attempt which ran synthesis
at step 2, preempting the heuristic detector on PDFs where it worked
better.
Also relaxes uniform row spacing threshold (CV 0.05→0.02) to accept
spreadsheet-exported tables with even row heights.
Benchmark: TEDS 0.519→0.586 (+0.067), overall +0.006, no regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts commits 937311c, 1dcb0c6, 0300e96, 999f9a2. The thin-rect-to-line
synthesis and stacked table splitting improved extraction for specific
government PDFs but caused -0.05 TEDS regression on the benchmark by
preempting the heuristic detector with worse line-based grids.
These features need more targeted guards before re-enabling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rows that sit between horizontal rules but lack vertical border coverage
are not table cells — they're freestanding text (e.g. "Note: The cutoff
mark is out of 120"). These rows now split the grid into separate
sub-tables, with the unbounded text emitted as plain text between them.
Single-cell "tables" (from the split) render as plain text instead of
a degenerate 1x1 markdown table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rows with 3+ short-valued cells (avg ≤10 chars) and an empty first cell
are column headers (e.g. "UR | SC | ST | OBC | EWS"), not text overflow
from the previous row. Prevents them from being merged into the
preceding section title row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three fixes for better table extraction from spreadsheet-exported PDFs:
1. Convert thin filled rects (< 2pt) to PdfLine objects before line-based
table detection. Many PDFs draw table borders as narrow filled rectangles
instead of stroked paths — these were invisible to the line detector.
2. Relax uniform row spacing rejection (CV 0.05 → 0.02). Spreadsheet
exports have very even row heights that were being rejected as "chart
grids".
3. Fix continuation row merging: don't merge rows where the only non-first
cell content is a long label (section headers like "Category No. 03").
Don't merge first-cell-only rows with long text ("Note: ...").
Also adds multi-Y row splitting in line-based detection and column-aware
table detection skipping for multi-column pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Many PDFs (especially spreadsheet exports) draw table borders as thin
filled rectangles (height/width < 2pt) instead of stroked paths. These
were invisible to our line-based table detector since only stroke
operations produced PdfLine objects.
Now synthesizes PdfLine from thin rects before line-based detection,
enabling table detection on border-drawn PDFs like government forms.
Also relaxes the uniform row spacing rejection threshold (CV 0.05→0.02)
to accept spreadsheet-exported tables with even row heights.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On pages where column detection finds 2+ columns, skip body-font
heuristic table detection in the merged-band retry path. This prevents
sidebar/two-column prose from being formatted as markdown tables.
The fix is targeted: per-band heuristic detection still runs (bands
are scoped to single columns), so real tables within columns are
still detected. Only the merged-band retry (which sees all items
across columns) is gated.
Also relaxes column validation to accept asymmetric layouts (sidebars)
where one side has fewer items, and tries center-based item assignment
before edge-based to improve column splitting for asymmetric layouts.
Benchmark: NID 0.865→0.869, NID-S 0.798→0.805, overall +0.002.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace ad-hoc bold/ratio heading checks with a unified scoring system
based on font size rarity. For each line, compute:
score = font_rarity * 0.5 + bold * 0.3 + standalone * 0.2
Font rarity measures how infrequently a font size appears across the
document — heading fonts are rare while body text is common. This
approach (from opendataloader's ModeWeightStatistics) naturally adapts
to each document's font distribution instead of relying on fixed
thresholds.
Guards: require font_size >= 0.95 * base_size (no small-font headings),
word_count >= 3, and standalone (paragraph break before).
Benchmark improvement: MHS 0.56→0.58, MHS-S 0.66→0.70, overall +0.003.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Compare pdf-inspector against other direct text extraction engines
(no OCR/ML) on the opendataloader-bench corpus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lines with font size 1.10-1.20x body text that are standalone and short
(1-8 words) are promoted to headings. This catches academic paper
headings where the font is only ~10% larger than body text, below the
previous 1.2x threshold.
Also syncs the simpler to_markdown_from_lines path to match the
table-aware path (removes stale colon exclusion).
Benchmark improvement: MHS 0.54→0.56, overall 0.761→0.766.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Caption detection was incorrectly classifying "Table of Contents" as a
caption because it starts with "Table ". Now "Table" and "Figure"
prefixes require a digit, parenthesis, or hash after them — matching
actual captions like "Table 1", "Figure 3.2" but not titles.
Also removes debug logging left from previous iteration.
Benchmark improvement: MHS 0.52→0.54, overall 0.757→0.761.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
