The pypdfium rasterizer was producing output images that differed by 1
pixel compared to Ghostscript due to floating-point precision issues in
dimension calculations.
Root cause:
- pypdfium used harmonic mean of x/y DPI to calculate a single scale
factor, losing the distinction between x and y DPI
- No DPI rounding like Ghostscript's 6-decimal precision
- Compound rounding errors when converting points to pixels
Solution:
1. Round DPI to 6 decimals to match Ghostscript's precision
2. Calculate expected output dimensions using separate x/y DPI values
3. Handle dimension swapping for 90°/270° rotations
4. Resize output image if off by 1-2 pixels (graceful correction)
This ensures pixel-perfect matching with Ghostscript while being
minimally invasive and only resizing when necessary.
Changes:
- Modified _render_page_to_bitmap() to calculate expected dimensions
- Modified _process_image_for_output() to correct small discrepancies
- Updated rasterize_pdf_page() to pass dimensions through pipeline
- Parametrized rotation tests to run with both rasterizers
All 45 rotation tests now pass with both pypdfium and ghostscript.
Fixes test_rotated_skew_timeout with pypdfium rasterizer.
Introduce a new --mode (-m) argument that consolidates the three
mutually exclusive OCR processing options into a single enum:
- default: Error if text is found (standard behavior)
- force: Rasterize all content and run OCR (replaces --force-ocr)
- skip: Skip pages with existing text (replaces --skip-text)
- redo: Re-OCR pages, stripping old text layer (replaces --redo-ocr)
The legacy flags --force-ocr, --skip-text, and --redo-ocr remain as
silent aliases for backward compatibility. Both CLI and API usage
continue to work unchanged.
Introduce --ocr-engine option to select between OCR engines:
- 'auto' (default): Uses Tesseract
- 'tesseract': Explicit Tesseract selection
- 'none': Skip OCR entirely (for PDF processing only)
Key changes:
- Extend OcrEngine ABC with generate_ocr() and supports_generate_ocr()
for direct OcrElement tree output (bypasses hOCR)
- Add get_ocr_engine(options) hook parameter for engine selection
- Implement NullOcrEngine for --ocr-engine none
- Export OcrElement, OcrClass, BoundingBox from ocrmypdf package
- Add ocr_tree support to grafting pipeline
This prepares the foundation for pluggable OCR engines while maintaining
full backward compatibility with existing Tesseract-based workflows.
- Check all required output files exist before declaring cache hit,
not just stderr.bin
- Add 'hocr' to list of cached output file types
- Fix timeout=0.0 causing immediate timeout on cache miss by treating
it as "no timeout"
- Add new '--output-type auto' option (now the default) that produces
best-effort PDF/A without requiring Ghostscript
- When verapdf is available, use speculative PDF/A conversion
- Without verapdf, pass through as PDF/A if safe (input claims PDF/A
or --force-ocr was used), otherwise output as regular PDF
- Make Ghostscript check conditional - only required for pdfa* output types
- Update soft error tests to explicitly use --output-type pdfa since they
exercise Ghostscript failure modes
- Fix Tesseract OSD error handling to check both stdout and stderr for
known non-fatal messages like "Too few characters"
Insert space characters between words in the fpdf2 renderer so PDF
readers like pdfminer.six can properly segment words during text
extraction. Some PDF readers rely on explicit space characters rather
than inferring word boundaries from positioning.
- Use itertools.pairwise to iterate consecutive word pairs
- Render space immediately after each word (content stream order matters)
- Skip space insertion between CJK words (no spaces in CJK text)
- Use 5% line height threshold to filter OCR noise
- Support RTL text direction
Replace pm.hook.method() calls with pm.method() calls to match the
refactored plugin manager that now uses composition over inheritance.
The hook attribute is no longer directly exposed; instead, type-safe
methods are provided directly on the plugin manager class.
Introduce a fast path for PDF/A conversion that uses pikepdf to add
PDF/A structures directly (sRGB ICC profile and XMP metadata), then
validates with verapdf. If validation passes, skip Ghostscript entirely.
If validation fails or verapdf is unavailable, fall back to the existing
Ghostscript conversion path.
New files:
- src/ocrmypdf/_exec/verapdf.py: CLI wrapper for verapdf validator
- tests/test_verapdf.py: Test suite for new functionality
Modified:
- pdfa.py: Add speculative_pdfa_conversion() and helpers
- _pipeline.py: Add try_speculative_pdfa() function
- _pipelines/_common.py: Integrate speculative path into postprocess()
- Add hOCR test fixtures for Latin, Arabic, CJK, Devanagari scripts
- Add tests for fpdf2 renderer, multi-font manager, system font provider
- Add multilingual rendering tests
- Update existing tests to use fpdf2 renderer
Ghostscript 10.6 has a bug that truncates JPEG data by 1-15 bytes.
This adds detection and repair by comparing output images to input
images and restoring the original bytes when truncation is detected.
- Add warning when GS 10.6+ is used with PDF/A output
- Add _repair_gs106_jpeg_corruption() to fix damaged JPEGs after
Ghostscript processing
- Add unit tests for the repair function
Lossy JBIG2 has been removed due to well-documented risks of character
substitution errors (e.g., 6/8 confusion). The --jbig2-lossy and
--jbig2-page-group-size arguments are now deprecated and ignored with
a warning.
Changes:
- Remove jbig2_lossy and jbig2_page_group_size from OCROptions
- Simplify optimize.py to use single-image JBIG2 encoding only
(no symbol dictionaries/JBIG2Globals)
- Remove convert_group() from jbig2enc.py
- Deprecate CLI args with warnings for backward compatibility
- Update documentation to explain lossless-only JBIG2
Migrate all code from flat accessor pattern (options.tesseract_timeout)
to the plugin namespace pattern (options.tesseract.timeout).
Key changes:
- Fix _get_plugin_options to raise AttributeError for unregistered
namespaces instead of silently returning None
- Add _convert_value helper to convert PathLike to str for plugin
model field compatibility
- Filter out _plugin_cache_* entries from JSON serialization to fix
worker process serialization (test_simulate_oom_killer)
- Update tesseract_ocr.py, ghostscript.py, _validation_coordinator.py,
and _pipelines/ocr.py to use options.tesseract.* and
options.ghostscript.* accessors
- Update tests to use setup_plugin_infrastructure() for plugin
model registration
- Update __getattr__ docstring to clarify that plugin models must be
registered for namespace access (e.g., options.tesseract.timeout)
- Update test_json_serialization.py to properly register TesseractOptions
before accessing plugin namespaces
- Worker processes now register plugin models for multiprocessing tests
- Exclude plugin cache keys from extra_attrs comparison in tests
Split the 1288-line info.py into smaller, single-responsibility modules:
- _types.py: Enums, type aliases, lookup dictionaries
- _contentstream.py: PDF content stream parsing, DPI calculation
- _image.py: ImageInfo class and image finding functions
- _worker.py: Concurrency/worker process handling
- info.py: PageInfo, PdfInfo classes (reduced to ~530 lines)
Public API unchanged - all existing imports continue to work.
Comprehensive test coverage for the new hocrtransform components:
- test_ocr_element.py: Tests for BoundingBox, Baseline, FontInfo,
OcrElement dataclass methods (iter_by_class, find_by_class,
get_text_recursive, words/lines/paragraphs properties)
- test_hocr_parser.py: Tests for parsing hOCR files including
page/paragraph/line/word extraction, RTL text, rotated text,
different line types (header, caption), font info, and edge cases
- test_pdf_renderer.py: Tests for PDF rendering including text
extraction verification, page sizing, multi-line content,
text direction, baseline handling, textangle rotation, word breaks,
debug options, and image overlay
Also fixes x_font regex pattern to not capture trailing semicolons.
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Added use_cropbox parameter to rasterize_pdf_page hook to allow
choosing between MediaBox and CropBox rendering:
- Default is use_cropbox=False (MediaBox) for consistency with
Ghostscript's existing behavior
- Ghostscript: passes -dUseCropBox when use_cropbox=True
- pypdfium: calculates crop values to expand from CropBox to MediaBox
when use_cropbox=False
This aligns both rasterizers to produce the same output dimensions
by default, making the rasterizer choice transparent for page
geometry.
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pypdfium2/PDFium is not thread-safe - concurrent calls from different
threads can crash or corrupt the process. Added a module-level lock to
serialize all pdfium operations.
PIL image processing and file I/O are done outside the lock since they
are thread-safe, minimizing lock contention.
For maximum parallelism, users can use process-based parallelism
(use_threads=False) where each process has its own pdfium instance.
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Add test_rasterizer.py with tests covering:
- Basic rasterizer option validation ('auto', 'ghostscript', 'pypdfium')
- Rasterizer + --rotate-pages interaction
- PDFs with nonstandard MediaBox/TrimBox/CropBox
- Direct hook tests verifying plugins respect the option
Also fix pluggy parameter passing: make 'options' a required parameter
(no default) in the hookspec so pluggy forwards it to implementations.
Update test plugins and test_rotation.py to pass the new parameter.
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Completes Phase 5 of the CLI refactoring plan by enabling nested
plugin option access (e.g., options.tesseract.timeout) alongside
the legacy flat access (options.tesseract_timeout).
Changes:
- Add module-level plugin option model registry in _options.py
- Add __getattr__ to OCROptions for dynamic namespace access
- Register plugin models in setup_plugin_infrastructure()
- Add test for nested plugin option access
Plugin option instances are lazily created from flat field values
and cached for subsequent access.
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