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Summary

Resolve the captured ruled-table OCR loss of inclusive comparisons, decimal positions and raised digits. A bounded pixel plan separates an observed comparison from its numeric suffix, or normalizes a source-positioned raised digit for the existing unrestricted OCR call, then restores it only when source glyph alignment agrees. Ambiguous inputs discard the optional candidate and use the original full-page fallback. Clinical values and units are never supplied from text patterns or dictionaries.

Preserve the preceding fixes for Form-mask preflight, complete qualified table overflow, embedding request budgets, production Python-only extraction and integrity-alert recovery boundaries. Concurrent remote updates were retained without rewriting branch history.

• Add the source-grounded OCR comparison report and aggregate results: 30 cases, 60 paired runs and 180 predeclared checks on product head 56b69dca2487c6f7e6123f7d39e0a520d7946fe6. This documentation-only follow-up preserves the default-off recommendation; source PDFs, full text and bulky execution artifacts remain private.

Areas touched: Source intake and indexing, Delivery and assurance, Knowledge and records, Answer engine
RAG impact: Extraction and chunk boundaries change only for newly processed sources. PDF producer is 2026-10-21.raster-math-layout-v13 and chunker versions remain 1.4.0. No retrieval weights, relevance comparator keys, original golden expectations or evaluation thresholds changed. Baseline/after-reindex canary pair remains corpus-acceptance work; no production restoration or reindex was performed.

Verification

• Real-publication-derived comparison on product head 56b69dca2487c6f7e6123f7d39e0a520d7946fe6: ten rasterized clinical full pages from six publications plus all twenty mixed-domain PubTabNet table crops. All sixty producer runs completed; only one enhanced case engaged. Primary selected exact-text/association checks: standard 39/180, enhanced 40/180 (clinical 28/60 vs 29/60; crops 11/120 each), one check improvement and zero scored regressions. Twenty-nine returned text pairs were byte-identical. These are verification counts, not whole-document accuracy percentages; the report preserves three reference limitations and unverified associations. Shared fallback comparator/number errors remain. Full methodology, corrections and limitations.

• Publication-only documentation commit faa9f00c643483f13ce2d1f168cb37b44a160a83: formatting, tests, lint, typecheck, builds and hosted CI observation were not run for this bare-publication request. Prior checks below are historical evidence at their recorded product revisions, not a new validation of this documentation head.

• The original actual scanned Unicode case satisfies its unchanged strict assertions and is now an ordinary test; its expected-failure marker was removed after an observed unexpected success.

• Final OCR correction: 21 tests passed in 94.194 seconds, zero skips or expected failures, including the original Unicode case and two independent font/value/power variants. The earlier domain run passed 117 unaffected cases used here as reused evidence; it also exposed Courier L→1, which was corrected through bounded, source-preserving image conditioning. Independent actual Courier controls preserve both a real 1 and L. The failing assertion was not weakened.

• Current OCR improvement JavaScript domain: 138 passed across four suites, covering the strict Python payload/transform contract, PDF budgets, page provenance and chunk linkage.

• Source typecheck, changed-file ESLint with zero warnings, both worker/runtime-validator bundle builds and exact installed-lock parity passed. Final recognition correction evidence is recorded below and in the exact-head review comment.

• Captured synthetic native and scanned extraction outputs passed through the production chunker in both page and document modes, retaining thresholds, row order and page-local note ownership without mutating inputs. Actual transformed Python output also passed the strict production TypeScript payload parser; contract validity is separate from source-fidelity acceptance.

• Independent complete-scope review plus targeted delta review found no high-confidence P0–P2 source defects. Mocked producer tests verify one OCR call, original versus transformed crop identities, helper-code identity and failed-restoration cleanup. Pixel controls cover strict/inclusive comparator polarity, decimal relocation, baseline digits, multiple raised positions, mixed fonts, degree/star/letter ambiguity and resource/deadline refusal.

• Reused earlier bounded-table/Form/embedding evidence: 234 JavaScript tests across 12 suites; Form-header compatibility controls on PyMuPDF 1.28.2 and 1.26.6; original RAG fixture/manifest validation with 36 golden, 26 suite and 26 programme cases. These unchanged checks were not repeated as new proof.

• Verification not run: paid/provider canaries, deployed clinical-corpus acceptance, production ingestion/reindexing, full release/device/browser gates. Draft CI defers full unit coverage, app build and browser matrices; skipped jobs are not passing evidence.

Risk and rollout

• Risk: high — these producers determine newly indexed clinical evidence. The pixel repair is limited to small, single-line, disjoint components. Zero is unsupported for raised glyphs because a degree sign was actually recognized as zero in diagnostics. Unknown/noisy layouts, overlapping components and uncovered fonts remain unverified.
• The real-document comparison supports keeping the optional raster-table reader default-off: only one table engaged, its measured gain was a row-label correction, and important shared clinical-number/symbol failures remain. Broader eligible clinical-table and authentic degraded-scan acceptance is still outstanding.
• The optional raster-table reader remains default-off. Source crop hashes remain original; transformed input dimensions/mode/hash and helper-code hash are recorded separately. OCR stays unverified/not_compared with no confidence or clinical sign-off.
• Pixel, memory, request and page-deadline ceilings are retained. A complete table scope above 8,191 UTF-8 bytes remains refused; source cells are not truncated to force it through.
• Rollback: revert these commits before new processing. Reverting code alone cannot revert a later indexed corpus; use the established generation/reindex process for that.
• No live database, provider inference, model download, deployment, worker restoration, queue recovery or reindex was performed. Native-security PR Backport native worker parser and mount security fixes #3701 remains separate. PR stays draft; no auto-merge was armed.

Clinical Governance Preflight

• Source-backed claims still require linked source verification before clinical use
• No patient-identifiable document workflow was introduced or expanded without explicit governance approval
• Supabase target remains PsychSift Production (sjrfecxgysukkwxsowpy)
• Service-role keys and private document access remain server-only
• Demo/synthetic content remains clearly separated from real clinical sources
• Source metadata, review status, and outdated/unknown-source behavior remain conservative
• Deployment classification/TGA SaMD impact was checked when clinical decision-support behavior changed

The regression acceptance examples are synthetic. The separate paired comparison uses rasterized real publication pages and original benchmark table crops; it includes no authentic field scans and does not certify general clinical-document OCR accuracy. Clinical-owner approval and deployment classification are not claimed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved PDF extraction safeguards for oversized or unsafe image content.
  • Added bounded OCR support for selected table comparisons and superscript digits, with automatic fallback when recognition is uncertain.
  • Improved table chunking to preserve captions, footnotes, qualifications, and indivisible table rows.
  • Added embedding request batching based on input size and byte limits.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved ingestion monitoring for stranded jobs and documents missing chunks.
  • Prevented unsafe partial table indexing and clarified recovery behavior.

• Documentation

  • Expanded operational guidance for extraction limits, OCR validation, chunking, and ingestion integrity alerts.

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This pull request updates PDF image handling and raster math OCR, adds byte-aware embedding batches and atomic table-row overflow handling, and separates ingestion integrity alerts from queue recovery. It also adds tests, audit reports, issue records, and operational documentation.

Changes: PDF Extraction and Raster Math OCR

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PDF image preflight and production fallback src/lib/extractors/document.ts, worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py, tests/pdf-extraction-budget.test.ts, worker/python/test_extract_pdf_assets_resource_limits.py, docs/worker-deploy-runbook.md	PDF extraction checks image and mask dimensions before rendering. Unsafe image paths are skipped, and production no longer uses JavaScript fallback after Python extraction fails.
Raster math OCR and provenance worker/python/raster_math_ocr.py, worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py, src/lib/extractors/document.ts, worker/python/test_raster_math_ocr.py, worker/python/test_extract_pdf_assets_math_integration.py, tests/extracted-document-validation.test.ts	Eligible cell crops can be transformed for comparison symbols or raised digits. The extractor records transformation metadata and validates the transform fields.
OCR acceptance and audit records worker/python/test_extract_pdf_assets_coverage_acceptance.py, docs/audit/*, docs/outstanding-issues-inbox/*, docs/worker-deploy-runbook.md, worker/python/test_extract_pdf_assets_raster_tables.py	Acceptance tests cover native and scanned tables. Audit reports document paired OCR results and limitations; issue records document related outcomes and unresolved cases.

Embedding Budgets and Table Chunking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Embedding byte budgets and batching src/lib/embedding-input-budget.ts, src/lib/openai.ts, tests/embedding-input-budget.test.ts, tests/embed-texts-integrity.test.ts, docs/organisation/systems/source-intake.json	Embedding batches for known models follow input-count and UTF-8 byte limits. Tests cover ordering, batch boundaries, and oversized inputs.
Atomic table rows and overflow metadata src/lib/chunking.ts, tests/chunking.test.ts, tests/chunking-native-table-link.test.ts, tests/chunker-version-ratchet.test.ts, tests/worker-behavior.test.ts, docs/reindex-runbook.md	Chunking retains table notes with row groups and keeps permitted indivisible rows intact. Oversized rows produce an error; emitted overflow chunks carry metadata.

Ingestion Integrity Reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Integrity assessment and CLI behavior scripts/ingestion-autopilot.ts, tests/ingestion-autopilot.test.ts, docs/reindex-runbook.md	The assessment reports stranded final-attempt jobs and indexed documents without chunks separately from recovery signals. The CLI alerts on integrity issues and avoids recovery when only integrity issues exist.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Extractor as PDF extractor
  participant Planner as raster_math_ocr
  participant OCR as OCR engine
  Extractor->>Planner: Analyze eligible cell crop
  Planner-->>Extractor: Return transformed bitmap and restoration plan
  Extractor->>OCR: Read transformed bitmap
  OCR-->>Extractor: Return recognized text
  Extractor->>Planner: Restore comparison symbol or raised digit
  Planner-->>Extractor: Return validated text
  Extractor->>Extractor: Record transformation provenance

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Possibly related issues

• Issue 3734 concerns a possible retrieval-latency increase associated with table chunk construction. This pull request changes table chunk construction and overflow handling, but does not establish that it resolves the reported latency.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to faa9f

Large clinical tables that have one long row, or that are flagged as having qualification bands, could be refused during ingestion rather than split into row groups. Resolve this chunking behavior, or document and test the intended refusal, before merging.

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Branch: fix/offline-ingestion-fidelity-20261021
Head: 550cf46c0ee5a424e56c310f4eef77dc681778a0
Scope: offline PDF image/mask decode safeguards, table row/qualification chunking, production fallback refusal, and optional ingestion-integrity alerts.

Outcome: independent review found two regressions (wrapped note condition detached; unused oversized image resources suppressing safe OCR). Both were corrected. The wrapped-note correction received targeted static verification; the unused-resource correction passed focused real-OCR/resource controls on both parser runtimes. This is scoped engineering verification, not clinical approval or live release acceptance.

Checks: 203 JavaScript tests across 8 suites; 21 PDF tests across 3 suites; 61 initial focused Python tests including 3 actual OCR cases, followed by 10 focused correction controls on each of PyMuPDF 1.28.2 and 1.26.6 with no skips; source typecheck; changed-file ESLint with zero warnings; exact-lock parity; RAG fixture/manifest validation; worker and runtime-validator bundle builds; formatting/diff checks.

Not run: provider-backed canaries, full deployed-worker image/corpus acceptance, live ingestion/reindex, or browser/device acceptance. Form soft-mask placement that cannot be resolved without decoding remains conservatively refused. Integrity-count producer remains in open PR #3707. Hosted CI is currently running; no all-green CI claim or merge authorization.

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Grok Bot sweep (owner-approved 15:29 AWST): taking ONLY gitar-bot's soft-mask int() finding in worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py (guard Width/Height parse in page_image_decode_preflight + unit tests). Not touching chunking/reindex code, not marking ready, not arming. Will push once the in-flight CI run finishes.

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Branch: fix/offline-ingestion-fidelity-20261021
Head: b4d69850d7f1bbc37f64c4be29589dd1c38cbe5f
Scope: offline Form-mask resource preflight, complete table qualification scope, bounded embedding request planning and synthetic native/real-OCR acceptance. This extends the earlier phase-one review; it does not review unrelated changes already on main or native-security PR #3701.

Outcome: independent review found qualification-band loss during row overflow and a captioned-table accumulation bypass. Both received red-proved regressions, corrections and direct static closure verification. A narrow further review of the concurrent malformed-mask header fix combined with the native-header adapter found no high-confidence integration regression. Two concurrent remote updates were preserved through merges, without force-pushing.

Completed evidence: 234 JavaScript tests across 12 owning/integration suites; 74 Python tests with 73 passes, one explicit expected failure and zero skips on PyMuPDF 1.28.2 / Pillow 13.0.0 (115.191 s). Six focused Form-header controls also passed on PyMuPDF 1.28.2 and 1.26.6. Source typecheck, both worker/runtime-validator bundle builds, installed-lock parity (726 package locations, 49,172 files) and diff integrity passed on merged candidate 3d766e7879709794960ef2a49770142bd6695bf4. The final merge changed only five already-main crisis-wording/test/decision/snapshot files; ingestion sources, dependencies and test configuration were checked unchanged. The normal pre-push hook completed successfully on the published head, including its static checks. Earlier changed-file ESLint and unchanged original RAG fixture/manifest evidence (36 golden cases, 26 suites, 26 programme cases) are reused, not newly claimed full-suite results.

Still unresolved: scanned mathematical notation loses inclusive comparator strokes, an exponent and a decimal with the pinned OCR model. Its vocabulary lacks ≤, ≥ and ⁹; 12 bounded cached-language/crop/segmentation trials did not recover equivalent semantics. The NEW strict acceptance case is an expected failure, not a passing accuracy result or waiver. It is recorded in issue-inbox request f686046e-e9f4-451d-b225-68301dc7dd86. Complete table scopes exceeding 8,191 UTF-8 bytes and unknown native-mask bindings remain conservatively refused.

Hosted CI: current-head CI run 39569240469 is pending at this record. Previous heads' green checks do not certify this head. Draft conditions defer full coverage/app/browser jobs.

Not run: paid/provider inference or live canaries, deployed clinical-corpus acceptance, production ingestion/restoration/reindexing, live DB/migrations or device acceptance. No clinical-owner approval or reliable general clinical OCR accuracy is claimed. PR remains draft; no auto-merge was armed.

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Branch: fix/offline-ingestion-fidelity-20261021
Head: 56b69dca2487c6f7e6123f7d39e0a520d7946fe6
Scope: OCR math glyph layout, bounded source-preserving input conditioning, producer restoration/fallback and transform provenance, and the complete new synthetic native/scanned acceptance scope. Earlier Form-mask/table-overflow/embedding review is reused for unchanged code.

Outcome: independent complete-scope review and targeted provenance/conditioning delta reviews found no high-confidence P0–P2 defects. Original Unicode comparison/exponent/decimal assertions are unchanged and now ordinary passing tests. A new Courier variant exposed unit L being read as 1; generic exact-white cropping, bounded resize and padding corrected it. Independent actual same-font Courier controls retain both baseline 1 and L. No unit dictionary, clinical value guess, digit whitelist or source-text replacement was added. One existing OCR call is retained; ambiguous restoration discards the entire optional candidate and its observations.

Evidence: final correction 21 tests PASS in 94.194 seconds, zero skips/expected failures, covering both strict Unicode methods (three actual scan pages), 17 source-pixel/alignment/allocation controls and two producer integration tests. The preceding affected Python run passed 117 other unchanged cases used as reused proof; its Courier failure was corrected, not waived. JavaScript 138 tests across four suites PASS. Source typecheck, changed-file ESLint with zero warnings, both worker/runtime-validator builds and exact-lock parity (726 package locations/49,172 files) PASS. TS/dependency inputs are unchanged by the final Python-only conditioning correction. Normal pre-push guards completed successfully. Diff integrity PASS: 14 changed test files, 234 -> 329 cases. Actual Python transform output passed the strict production TS parser. Captured native/scanned extraction-to-chunk checks passed in page and document modes, retaining row/note order and source immutability.

Producer v13 and helper SHA256 e233f5ddd05172c424e9ece3b28bcbdbd2c5ca6941117a8200ba66c72990f938 were inspected. Source crop hashes, transformed input identity and helper-code identity remain separate. Deadline, image/memory ceilings, default-off flag and unverified/not_compared provenance are preserved.

Requested routes: three bounded agents, gpt-6.1-sol/high, with one writer per file. Execution-route telemetry was unavailable; requested selection is not independently verified routing. One diagnostic wrapper deadline failure had no retained accuracy result and was counted as used.

Limits: this closes captured bounded ruled-cell regressions, not general clinical-document OCR accuracy. Raised zero/degree and ambiguous/noisy/overlapping or uncovered layouts remain unsupported. No production ingestion/restoration/reindex, live DB, paid inference/canary, model download, browser/device acceptance or clinical-owner approval was performed. Native-security PR #3701 remains separate. Immutable completion request ca05be88-08ed-4bb1-99f0-fac733f69a98 follows the final pass; an earlier premature completion was explicitly canceled before publication. Canonical issue ledger was not edited.

Hosted CI: new-head results pending at publication. Previous b4d6985 required/container success is historical, not proof for this head. PR remains draft; no auto-merge was armed.

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For #3716, keep main's footnote rule, word-boundary row splitting and chunking version 1.3.1, and carry over only the PR's other fidelity fixes. No re-chunk.

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Keep main's extractor label merged-cell-provenance-v11 for #3716.

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Code Review ✅ Approved 4 closed / 4 findings

🔴 High risk · OCR and PDF extraction changes alter newly indexed clinical source text; mis-restored symbols or digits could change thresholds used downstream.

Adds bounded OCR handling for ruled-table comparisons and raised digits, plus chunking and extraction safeguards for PDF ingestion. Resolved soft-mask Width/Height parse aborts, sparse-row table chunking failures, comparison cells with units causing whole-page OCR failure, and merge loss of merged-cell provenance and row breaks. No open issues found.

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✅ Bug: Soft-mask Width/Height int() parse can abort the whole PDF extraction

📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:194-204 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:2256-2257 📄 src/lib/extractors/document.ts:542-548
page_image_decode_preflight runs int(page.parent.xref_get_key(smask, "Width")[1]) (same for Height) with no exception handling. The call happens directly in the _extract_document page loop. xref_get_key returns ('xref', '12 0 R') when the value is an indirect reference, which PDF allows, and ('null', 'null') when the key is missing or malformed. In both cases int() raises ValueError. The CLI handler only absorbs memory-exhaustion errors, so the process exits non-zero for the whole document. With this PR's production fallback refusal, that becomes a permanent PDF_EXTRACTION_BUDGET_EXCEEDED failure, even though the file only had an unusual soft-mask dictionary. Before this change, soft-mask dimensions were never read, so these PDFs used to ingest. Fix: resolve the value conservatively and treat anything unparsable as an unsafe/skipped mask instead of raising.

✅ Bug: Any sparse row makes a large table one chunk or fails the document

📄 src/lib/chunking.ts:620-631
In chunkTableBlock, qualificationBand is true whenever any body row has exactly one non-empty cell (row.split("|").filter(cell => cell.trim()).length === 1). This does not only catch real merged bands. It also catches ordinary sparse rows such as | Lithium | | or a continuation row with blank cells, and those are common in extracted clinical tables.

The check runs for every table larger than chunkSize, even when every row fits the target. In that case the whole table is returned as a single chunk. If the table is over 8,191 bytes, it throws OversizedTableRowError, and the worker treats that as a permanent failure for the whole document. The extractor allows tables up to MAX_TABLE_TEXT_CHARS = 24000, so a normal 10–24k-character table with one blank-celled row can no longer be ingested. Before this change it was split into row groups.

With an unknown embedding model, any table over the target that contains such a row is refused outright.

Fix: limit this to real full-width qualification bands. One option is to require the single non-empty cell to be the first cell and to span the row with no other content; another is to require an explicit band marker from the extractor. Or, when the complete table cannot fit, fall back to normal row grouping instead of refusing.

✅ Bug: Comparison cells with units or text make the whole page's table OCR fail

📄 worker/python/raster_math_ocr.py:1-6 📄 worker/python/raster_math_ocr.py:96-101 📄 worker/python/raster_math_ocr.py:164-177 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:783-793
plan_raster_math_ocr returns a comparison plan whenever the first glyph is a chevron. It never checks what comes after it. restore() then raises ValueError unless the OCR text exactly matches [0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)? and has one character per glyph. That rules out common clinical cells such as < 0.5 mmol/L, ≥ 18 years, > 5% or ≤ 1,000.

The exception reaches the generic except Exception in maybe_ocr_page. That handler logs raster_table_ocr_refused and throws away every cell of the page's raster table, so the page falls back to unstructured full-page OCR. Before this commit, those cells went through ordinary cell OCR and kept the table's row/column structure.

This also contradicts the module docstring ("Unsupported geometry keeps the original OCR path"), and test_nonnumeric_suffix_is_never_forced_to_a_number confirms that a plan can be returned for non-numeric suffixes. The superscript path has the same all-or-nothing pattern: any glyph-count mismatch or non-1–9 raised character rejects the whole table.

Fix: if restore() refuses the transformed result, fall back to the original OCR for that cell instead of dropping the whole table. Alternatively, have the planner abstain unless the suffix geometry looks like a plain number.

✅ Bug: Merge dropped merged-cell provenance and row breaks from extractor

📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:31 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:1568-1582 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:1865-1870 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:2000-2014 📄 worker/python/extract_pdf_assets.py:2508-2522
Merging origin/main into this branch replaced extract_pdf_assets.py with the branch's older version. Main's merged-cell provenance (commits 1ac8a3a and 8aa537d) is now gone. extract_table_payload no longer returns merged_cells, and likely_table_candidates, merge_related_table_candidates and the edge-recovery path in _extract_document no longer produce table_merged_cells or table_row_breaks. Those fields are still read by worker/image-classification.ts:92-99, worker/image-captioning.ts:550-551 and worker/table-facts.ts:190-211. In table-facts.ts, a row label is carried down only into cells listed as extractor-confirmed merged cells, and the label resets at each row break. With both lists now empty, rows under a merged label cell lose their row_label in newly indexed table facts. Grouped tables and rows recovered across a page break also lose their section boundaries.

worker/python/test_extract_pdf_assets_merged_cells.py still expects payload["merged_cells"] == [[2, 0]] and will raise KeyError. table-facts.ts is on the protected worker/table-facts.ts list, so this is a retrieval-input change that the PR's RAG impact line doesn't mention. The EXTRACTOR_VERSION jump from merged-cell-provenance-v11 to v13 also hides that the v11 behaviour was removed.

Fix: restore main's merged-cell and row-break code in extract_table_payload, likely_table_candidates, merge_related_table_candidates and the edge-recovery and table-metadata blocks of _extract_document, then keep the new raster-math changes on top.

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