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docling_core/
markdown.rs

1//! Markdown serializer for [`DoclingDocument`].
2
3use crate::document::{DoclingDocument, Node, Table};
4
5/// How pictures are rendered (mirrors docling-core's `ImageRefMode`).
6#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
7pub enum ImageMode {
8    /// `<!-- image -->` (docling's default, and the only mode without image data).
9    #[default]
10    Placeholder,
11    /// `![Image](data:<mime>;base64,…)` — self-contained.
12    Embedded,
13    /// `![Image](<artifacts>/image_NNNNNN.<ext>)`; the bytes are returned for the
14    /// caller to write.
15    Referenced,
16}
17
18/// Serializer state threaded through the render walk.
19struct Ctx {
20    strict: bool,
21    /// Emit compact `| a | b |` tables instead of the padded GitHub serializer.
22    compact_tables: bool,
23    images: ImageMode,
24    artifacts_dir: String,
25    /// (relative path, bytes) for each referenced image — written by the caller.
26    artifacts: Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>,
27    pic_index: usize,
28    /// Rendering the block content of a rich table cell (docling-core 2.94's
29    /// `in_table_cell`, docling-core#540): a heading has no valid Markdown
30    /// form inside a table, so it renders as plain text without `#` markers.
31    in_table_cell: bool,
32}
33
34/// Render a document to a Markdown string (pictures as placeholders).
35///
36/// `strict` selects the serializer-level behaviours that differ between
37/// docling-legacy output and cleaner Markdown — currently the code-fence
38/// language (legacy drops it, strict keeps it).
39pub fn to_markdown(doc: &DoclingDocument, strict: bool) -> String {
40    to_markdown_images(doc, strict, ImageMode::Placeholder, "artifacts").0
41}
42
43/// Render to Markdown with an explicit picture [`ImageMode`]. Returns the
44/// Markdown and, for [`ImageMode::Referenced`], the `(path, bytes)` of each image
45/// the caller should write (relative to the Markdown file).
46pub fn to_markdown_images(
47    doc: &DoclingDocument,
48    strict: bool,
49    images: ImageMode,
50    artifacts_dir: &str,
51) -> (String, Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>) {
52    let mut ctx = Ctx {
53        strict,
54        compact_tables: doc.compact_tables,
55        images,
56        artifacts_dir: artifacts_dir.to_string(),
57        artifacts: Vec::new(),
58        pic_index: 0,
59        in_table_cell: false,
60    };
61    let mut blocks: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
62    render(&doc.nodes, &mut blocks, &mut ctx);
63    let mut body = blocks.join("\n\n");
64    // Strict mode only: turn recovered source hyperlinks into Markdown links.
65    // docling's standard pipeline drops them, so doing this in legacy mode would
66    // diverge from docling — hence strict-only, leaving conformance output intact.
67    if strict && !doc.links.is_empty() {
68        body = apply_links(&body, &doc.links);
69    }
70    let md = if body.is_empty() {
71        String::new()
72    } else {
73        format!("{body}\n")
74    };
75    (md, ctx.artifacts)
76}
77
78/// Render the block content of a *rich table cell* to Markdown — what
79/// docling-core's table serializer does for a `RichTableCell`
80/// (`doc_serializer.serialize(item, in_table_cell=True)`): the cell's
81/// paragraphs, lists and flattened nested tables render as in a document, but a
82/// heading loses its `#` markers (docling-core#540 — the Markdown spec has no
83/// headings inside tables). Pictures stay placeholders. The caller flattens the
84/// result into its cell text; the table serializer later turns the newlines
85/// into spaces.
86pub fn to_markdown_table_cell(doc: &DoclingDocument, strict: bool) -> String {
87    let mut ctx = Ctx {
88        strict,
89        compact_tables: doc.compact_tables,
90        images: ImageMode::Placeholder,
91        artifacts_dir: String::new(),
92        artifacts: Vec::new(),
93        pic_index: 0,
94        in_table_cell: true,
95    };
96    let mut blocks: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
97    render(&doc.nodes, &mut blocks, &mut ctx);
98    blocks.join("\n\n")
99}
100
101/// Wrap each recovered link's anchor text in Markdown `[anchor](href)`. Anchors
102/// arrive cleaned (curly quotes/dashes already normalized) but un-escaped, so we
103/// match against the body's HTML-escaped (`&`/`<`/`>`) form, the way prose nodes
104/// were serialized. Links are consumed in document order from a moving cursor, so
105/// a repeated anchor (e.g. two "issues") links its successive occurrences rather
106/// than all pointing at the first. An anchor that can't be located is skipped
107/// (its text may have been split across a line wrap or table cell).
108fn apply_links(body: &str, links: &[(String, String)]) -> String {
109    let mut out = body.to_string();
110    let mut cursor = 0usize;
111    for (anchor, href) in links {
112        let anchor = anchor
113            .replace('&', "&amp;")
114            .replace('<', "&lt;")
115            .replace('>', "&gt;");
116        if anchor.is_empty() {
117            continue;
118        }
119        if let Some(rel) = out[cursor..].find(&anchor) {
120            let at = cursor + rel;
121            // Don't relink inside an already-emitted `](` Markdown link target.
122            let replacement = format!("[{anchor}]({href})");
123            out.replace_range(at..at + anchor.len(), &replacement);
124            cursor = at + replacement.len();
125        }
126    }
127    out
128}
129
130/// Like [`apply_links`] but over a single chunk, consuming from a shared queue so
131/// the same `[anchor](href)` rewriting can be applied incrementally as Markdown is
132/// streamed out. Each queued link is matched (in document order) against `chunk`
133/// and rewritten in place; a link whose anchor is not in this chunk is carried
134/// forward in the queue for a later chunk. Anchors are recovered in document
135/// order and a chunk is always a contiguous run of whole blocks, so this
136/// reproduces [`apply_links`]' single moving cursor: the link lands in whichever
137/// chunk contains its anchor, identically to the buffered path. (A link whose
138/// anchor never appears is carried to the end and dropped — the same no-op
139/// `apply_links` performs for an unlocatable anchor.)
140fn apply_links_chunk(chunk: &str, queue: &mut Vec<(String, String)>) -> String {
141    let mut out = chunk.to_string();
142    let mut cursor = 0usize;
143    let mut carried: Vec<(String, String)> = Vec::new();
144    for (anchor_raw, href) in std::mem::take(queue) {
145        let anchor = anchor_raw
146            .replace('&', "&amp;")
147            .replace('<', "&lt;")
148            .replace('>', "&gt;");
149        if anchor.is_empty() {
150            continue;
151        }
152        if let Some(rel) = out[cursor..].find(&anchor) {
153            let at = cursor + rel;
154            let replacement = format!("[{anchor}]({href})");
155            out.replace_range(at..at + anchor.len(), &replacement);
156            cursor = at + replacement.len();
157        } else {
158            // Not in this chunk; try again when its block is flushed.
159            carried.push((anchor_raw, href));
160        }
161    }
162    *queue = carried;
163    out
164}
165
166/// Incremental Markdown serializer: feed finalized, in-document-order batches of
167/// [`Node`]s and receive Markdown chunks whose concatenation is **byte-identical**
168/// to [`to_markdown_images`] over the same nodes. This is the streaming
169/// counterpart of the buffered serializer — used to emit a document's Markdown in
170/// chunks (e.g. page by page, as the parallel PDF pipeline finishes pages) instead
171/// of building the whole string up front.
172///
173/// [`ImageMode::Placeholder`] and [`ImageMode::Embedded`] render inline.
174/// [`ImageMode::Referenced`] additionally hands each picture's bytes out through
175/// [`take_artifacts`](Self::take_artifacts) — construct with
176/// [`with_artifacts`](Self::with_artifacts) and drain after every push so the
177/// bytes can be written to disk as pages finish instead of accumulating for the
178/// whole document (issue #80's memory-bounded image handling).
179///
180/// Each [`push`](Self::push) must contain whole blocks in reading order: a caller
181/// must not split a run of list items across two pushes (the run would render as
182/// two separate lists). Finalized PDF page batches already satisfy this.
183pub struct MarkdownStreamer {
184    strict: bool,
185    images: ImageMode,
186    compact_tables: bool,
187    /// Whether any non-empty chunk has been emitted yet (drives `\n\n` joins and
188    /// the trailing newline).
189    emitted_any: bool,
190    /// Recovered links not yet placed (strict mode), consumed in document order.
191    links: Vec<(String, String)>,
192    /// Referenced mode: the link prefix, the not-yet-drained `(path, bytes)`
193    /// artifacts, and the running image number (continues across pushes so the
194    /// stream matches the buffered serializer's `image_000000…` numbering).
195    artifacts_dir: String,
196    artifacts: Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>,
197    pic_index: usize,
198}
199
200impl MarkdownStreamer {
201    /// Create a streamer. `compact_tables` mirrors [`DoclingDocument::compact_tables`].
202    /// For [`ImageMode::Referenced`] use [`with_artifacts`](Self::with_artifacts).
203    pub fn new(strict: bool, images: ImageMode, compact_tables: bool) -> Self {
204        debug_assert!(
205            images != ImageMode::Referenced,
206            "referenced image mode needs an artifacts dir; use with_artifacts"
207        );
208        Self::with_artifacts(strict, images, compact_tables, "artifacts")
209    }
210
211    /// Like [`new`](Self::new) but with the artifacts link prefix, allowing
212    /// [`ImageMode::Referenced`]: pictures render as
213    /// `![Image](<artifacts_dir>/image_NNNNNN.<ext>)` and each push's image
214    /// bytes wait in [`take_artifacts`](Self::take_artifacts) for the caller to
215    /// write. The concatenated chunks and the artifact list match the buffered
216    /// [`to_markdown_images`] byte-for-byte.
217    pub fn with_artifacts(
218        strict: bool,
219        images: ImageMode,
220        compact_tables: bool,
221        artifacts_dir: &str,
222    ) -> Self {
223        Self {
224            strict,
225            images,
226            compact_tables,
227            emitted_any: false,
228            links: Vec::new(),
229            artifacts_dir: artifacts_dir.to_string(),
230            artifacts: Vec::new(),
231            pic_index: 0,
232        }
233    }
234
235    /// The `(relative path, bytes)` of images rendered by pushes since the last
236    /// drain ([`ImageMode::Referenced`] only — empty otherwise). Paths are
237    /// relative to the Markdown file, i.e. they start with the configured
238    /// artifacts dir.
239    pub fn take_artifacts(&mut self) -> Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)> {
240        std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts)
241    }
242
243    /// Render one finalized batch of nodes (plus any links recovered from the same
244    /// span, in document order) into the next Markdown chunk. Returns an empty
245    /// string when the batch produces no output (e.g. empty tables/pictures), in
246    /// which case nothing should be written.
247    pub fn push(&mut self, nodes: &[Node], links: &[(String, String)]) -> String {
248        self.links.extend(links.iter().cloned());
249        let mut ctx = Ctx {
250            strict: self.strict,
251            compact_tables: self.compact_tables,
252            images: self.images,
253            artifacts_dir: std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts_dir),
254            artifacts: std::mem::take(&mut self.artifacts),
255            pic_index: self.pic_index,
256            in_table_cell: false,
257        };
258        let mut blocks: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
259        render(nodes, &mut blocks, &mut ctx);
260        self.artifacts_dir = std::mem::take(&mut ctx.artifacts_dir);
261        self.artifacts = std::mem::take(&mut ctx.artifacts);
262        self.pic_index = ctx.pic_index;
263        if blocks.is_empty() {
264            return String::new();
265        }
266        let mut body = blocks.join("\n\n");
267        if self.strict && !self.links.is_empty() {
268            body = apply_links_chunk(&body, &mut self.links);
269        }
270        let chunk = if self.emitted_any {
271            format!("\n\n{body}")
272        } else {
273            body
274        };
275        self.emitted_any = true;
276        chunk
277    }
278
279    /// Emit the trailing newline that finishes the document (empty if no content
280    /// was produced). Call exactly once, after the final [`push`](Self::push).
281    pub fn finish(self) -> String {
282        if self.emitted_any {
283            "\n".to_string()
284        } else {
285            String::new()
286        }
287    }
288}
289
290/// In `strict` mode, rewrite inline text for readability rather than byte-for-byte
291/// docling fidelity: undo the legacy `\_` underscore escaping, and tighten stray
292/// spaces around punctuation (`[ 37 , 36 ]` → `[37, 36]`, `( x )` → `(x)`). This
293/// cleans up both the PDF backend's glyph-split spacing and the space the legacy
294/// emphasis serialization leaves before punctuation (`*a* ,` → `*a*,`).
295/// Legacy/default output keeps docling's spacing untouched. Only inline text
296/// nodes pass through here — code blocks and table cells are left alone.
297fn strict_text(text: &str, strict: bool) -> String {
298    if !strict {
299        return text.to_string();
300    }
301    text.replace("\\_", "_")
302        .replace(" ,", ",")
303        .replace(" .", ".")
304        .replace(" ;", ";")
305        .replace(" )", ")")
306        .replace("( ", "(")
307        .replace(" ]", "]")
308        .replace("[ ", "[")
309}
310
311/// docling-core 2.92's `_md_line_breaks` (docling-core#721): a single `\n`
312/// inside an item's text becomes a GFM hard line break (`"  \n"`, two trailing
313/// spaces) so renderers honour it; a blank line (`\n\n`) is a paragraph break
314/// and stays as is — the document scope already joins blocks with `\n\n`.
315/// Applied to body text, list items and captions, never to code/formulas.
316fn md_line_breaks(text: &str) -> String {
317    if !text.contains('\n') {
318        return text.to_string();
319    }
320    text.split("\n\n")
321        .map(|para| para.replace('\n', "  \n"))
322        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
323        .join("\n\n")
324}
325
326/// Undo [`md_line_breaks`] on a rich table cell's flattened Markdown so the
327/// non-Markdown exports (JSON `text`, LaTeX cells) see the cell's raw line
328/// breaks, as docling's do — a rich cell's text is its Markdown serialization
329/// in our model, and the two trailing spaces are a Markdown-only marker.
330pub(crate) fn strip_hard_breaks(text: &str) -> String {
331    if text.contains("  \n") {
332        text.replace("  \n", "\n")
333    } else {
334        text.to_string()
335    }
336}
337
338/// docling-core's `_heading_line_breaks`: a GFM heading cannot span lines, so a
339/// newline inside heading text collapses to a space (`# Hello World`, not a
340/// broken `# Hello\nWorld`).
341fn heading_line_breaks(text: &str) -> String {
342    text.replace('\n', " ")
343}
344
345fn render(nodes: &[Node], blocks: &mut Vec<String>, ctx: &mut Ctx) {
346    let mut i = 0;
347    while i < nodes.len() {
348        match &nodes[i] {
349            Node::ListItem { .. } => {
350                let start = i;
351                i += 1;
352                loop {
353                    match nodes.get(i) {
354                        Some(Node::ListItem { .. }) => i += 1,
355                        // An empty paragraph between two list items is absorbed
356                        // into the run — docling keeps such a ListGroup
357                        // contiguous rather than splitting it.
358                        Some(Node::Paragraph { text })
359                            if text.is_empty()
360                                && matches!(nodes.get(i + 1), Some(Node::ListItem { .. })) =>
361                        {
362                            i += 1
363                        }
364                        _ => break,
365                    }
366                }
367                render_list_run(&nodes[start..i], blocks, ctx.strict);
368            }
369            other => {
370                render_one(other, blocks, ctx);
371                i += 1;
372            }
373        }
374    }
375}
376
377/// Render a contiguous run of list items.
378///
379/// Ordered items use their explicit `number`. A new sibling list (marked by
380/// `first_in_list`) at the same depth is separated by a blank line, matching
381/// docling-core's serializer.
382fn render_list_run(items: &[Node], blocks: &mut Vec<String>, strict: bool) {
383    let mut lines: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
384    // Per level, the previous item's (ordered, number) so we can detect a new
385    // sibling list.
386    let mut prev: Vec<Option<(bool, u64)>> = Vec::new();
387    // Whether the previous top-level item was a multilevel projection — an
388    // ordered `1.2.`-style item rendered as a Markdown bullet (docx's DocLang
389    // overlay says ordered, the flat field says bullet). Word numbers such an
390    // item and its parent-level successor within one list (same `numId`), and
391    // docling keeps them in one group — so the kind-flip / number-continuity
392    // breaks below must not fire across it (docling#3902's
393    // docx_list_blank_spacer: `- 1.2. Sub two` directly followed by
394    // `2. Second section`, no blank line).
395    let mut prev_projected = false;
396
397    for item in items {
398        let Node::ListItem {
399            ordered,
400            number,
401            first_in_list,
402            text,
403            level,
404            marker: _,
405            location: _,
406            dclx,
407            href: _,
408            layer,
409        } = item
410        else {
411            continue;
412        };
413        // A non-body (furniture) list item is omitted from Markdown, matching
414        // docling's content-layer filtering.
415        if layer.is_some() {
416            continue;
417        }
418        let level = *level as usize;
419
420        // Returning to a shallower level ends the deeper sibling lists.
421        prev.truncate(level + 1);
422        while prev.len() <= level {
423            prev.push(None);
424        }
425
426        // A new sibling list at the same depth gets a blank line: the kind flips
427        // (`<ul>`↔`<ol>`), an ordered run breaks (`1, 2` then `42`), or the
428        // backend flagged a fresh list (e.g. Markdown's bullet changing `-`→`*`).
429        // Only at the top level: nested sibling groups are children of a list
430        // item, and docling joins an item's children without blank lines.
431        let eff_ordered = dclx.as_ref().map_or(*ordered, |d| d.ordered);
432        if level == 0 {
433            if let Some((prev_ordered, prev_number)) = prev[level] {
434                // A projected predecessor suppresses both heuristics for an
435                // ordered successor: the flat kind flip is an artifact of the
436                // bullet projection, and the numbering continues the deeper
437                // sequence (`1.2.` → `2.`), not this level's.
438                let same_word_list = prev_projected && eff_ordered;
439                let new_list = *first_in_list
440                    || (!same_word_list
441                        && (prev_ordered != *ordered || (*ordered && *number != prev_number + 1)));
442                if new_list {
443                    lines.push(String::new());
444                }
445            }
446            prev_projected = eff_ordered && !*ordered;
447        }
448
449        let indent = "    ".repeat(level);
450        let marker = if *ordered {
451            format!("{number}.")
452        } else {
453            "-".to_string()
454        };
455        lines.push(format!(
456            "{indent}{marker} {}",
457            md_line_breaks(&strict_text(text, strict))
458        ));
459        prev[level] = Some((*ordered, *number));
460    }
461
462    // A run consisting only of furniture (content-layer-filtered) items yields no
463    // lines; pushing an empty block here would surface as a stray blank line.
464    if !lines.is_empty() {
465        blocks.push(lines.join("\n"));
466    }
467}
468
469fn render_one(node: &Node, blocks: &mut Vec<String>, ctx: &mut Ctx) {
470    match node {
471        Node::Heading { level, text } => {
472            let text = heading_line_breaks(&strict_text(text, ctx.strict));
473            if ctx.in_table_cell {
474                // docling-core#540: no `#` markers inside a table cell.
475                blocks.push(text);
476            } else {
477                let hashes = "#".repeat((*level).clamp(1, 6) as usize);
478                blocks.push(format!("{hashes} {text}"));
479            }
480        }
481        // An empty body paragraph (docling's blank-line text item) contributes
482        // nothing to Markdown — only DocLang/JSON keep it.
483        Node::Paragraph { text } if text.is_empty() => {}
484        Node::Paragraph { text } => blocks.push(md_line_breaks(&strict_text(text, ctx.strict))),
485        Node::CheckboxItem { checked, text } => {
486            let mark = if *checked { "- [x] " } else { "- [ ] " };
487            blocks.push(md_line_breaks(&strict_text(
488                &format!("{mark}{text}"),
489                ctx.strict,
490            )));
491        }
492        Node::Code {
493            language,
494            text,
495            pretty,
496            ..
497        } => {
498            // Legacy docling never emits a language on the fence; strict keeps it.
499            let lang = match language {
500                Some(l) if ctx.strict => l.as_str(),
501                _ => "",
502            };
503            // Strict prefers the line-preserving rendering when the backend
504            // supplied one (PDF); legacy stays on docling's flat `text`.
505            let body = match pretty {
506                Some(p) if ctx.strict => p.as_str(),
507                _ => text.as_str(),
508            };
509            blocks.push(format!("```{lang}\n{body}\n```"));
510        }
511        // A CodeFormula-decoded display formula renders as docling's `$$…$$`
512        // (the un-enriched pipeline emits a placeholder paragraph instead).
513        Node::Formula { latex, .. } => blocks.push(format!("$${latex}$$")),
514        Node::Table(table) => {
515            // docling renders a table's caption as a text line before the grid.
516            // `caption` is already escaped (backend convention), like a paragraph.
517            if let Some(cap) = &table.caption {
518                if !cap.is_empty() {
519                    blocks.push(md_line_breaks(&strict_text(cap, ctx.strict)));
520                }
521            }
522            let rendered = render_table(table, ctx.compact_tables);
523            if !rendered.is_empty() {
524                blocks.push(rendered);
525            }
526        }
527        // Classification predictions don't affect docling's Markdown output.
528        Node::Picture { caption, image, .. } => {
529            if let Some(cap) = caption {
530                if !cap.is_empty() {
531                    blocks.push(md_line_breaks(cap));
532                }
533            }
534            blocks.push(picture_marker(image.as_ref(), ctx));
535        }
536        // A chart renders as docling's picture-with-meta markdown: the caption,
537        // the placeholder, the humanized classification ("line_chart" ->
538        // "Line chart"), then the chart's data grid as a regular table.
539        Node::Chart {
540            kind,
541            table,
542            caption,
543            ..
544        } => {
545            if let Some(cap) = caption {
546                if !cap.is_empty() {
547                    blocks.push(md_line_breaks(cap));
548                }
549            }
550            blocks.push(picture_marker(None, ctx));
551            blocks.push(humanize_label(kind));
552            let rendered = render_table(table, false);
553            if !rendered.is_empty() {
554                blocks.push(rendered);
555            }
556        }
557        // A DocLang-only node is omitted from Markdown.
558        Node::DoclangOnly(_) => {}
559        Node::Group { children, .. } => render(children, blocks, ctx),
560        Node::FieldRegion { items } => {
561            // The region container and each field item carry no text of their
562            // own; docling-core 2.93 (#724) serializes them to nothing (older
563            // releases emitted a `<!-- missing-text -->` marker for each), so
564            // only an item's marker/key/value appear, as separate paragraphs.
565            for item in items {
566                for part in [&item.marker, &item.key, &item.value].into_iter().flatten() {
567                    blocks.push(md_line_breaks(&strict_text(part, ctx.strict)));
568                }
569            }
570        }
571        // A rich inline group renders exactly like a paragraph of its Markdown
572        // text — the structured runs are DocLang-only.
573        Node::InlineGroup { md_text, .. } => {
574            blocks.push(md_line_breaks(&strict_text(md_text, ctx.strict)))
575        }
576        // A plain-text backend dump renders verbatim as a single block.
577        Node::TextDump(text) => {
578            if !text.is_empty() {
579                blocks.push(text.clone());
580            }
581        }
582        // Furniture (page headers/footers, HTML `<title>`) is excluded from
583        // Markdown by default, mirroring docling.
584        Node::Furniture { .. } => {}
585        Node::PageFurniture { .. } => {}
586        // Layout provenance is DocLang-only; render the wrapped node.
587        Node::Located { inner, .. } => render_one(inner, blocks, ctx),
588        // Page breaks are DocLang-only; docling omits them from Markdown.
589        Node::PageBreak => {}
590        // Page markers feed the JSON export only.
591        Node::PageInfo { .. } => {}
592        // Runs of adjacent list items are merged by `render`; a stray single
593        // item (a hand-built document, or a `Located` wrapper around one)
594        // still renders as its own one-item list instead of panicking —
595        // `nodes` is public API, so every representable tree must serialize.
596        Node::ListItem { .. } => render_list_run(std::slice::from_ref(node), blocks, ctx.strict),
597    }
598}
599
600/// The Markdown for a picture under the active [`ImageMode`]; Referenced mode also
601/// records the bytes in `ctx.artifacts` for the caller to write.
602/// docling-core's `_humanize_text`: underscores to spaces, first letter
603/// capitalized ("line_chart" -> "Line chart").
604fn humanize_label(label: &str) -> String {
605    let text = label.replace('_', " ");
606    let mut chars = text.chars();
607    match chars.next() {
608        Some(f) => f.to_uppercase().collect::<String>() + chars.as_str(),
609        None => text,
610    }
611}
612
613fn picture_marker(image: Option<&crate::PictureImage>, ctx: &mut Ctx) -> String {
614    match (ctx.images, image) {
615        (ImageMode::Embedded, Some(img)) => format!("![Image]({})", img.data_uri()),
616        (ImageMode::Referenced, Some(img)) => {
617            let path = format!(
618                "{}/image_{:06}.{}",
619                ctx.artifacts_dir,
620                ctx.pic_index,
621                ext_for(&img.mimetype)
622            );
623            ctx.pic_index += 1;
624            ctx.artifacts.push((path.clone(), img.data.clone()));
625            format!("![Image]({path})")
626        }
627        // Placeholder, or any mode with no extracted image.
628        _ => "<!-- image -->".to_string(),
629    }
630}
631
632fn ext_for(mimetype: &str) -> &str {
633    match mimetype {
634        "image/jpeg" => "jpg",
635        "image/gif" => "gif",
636        "image/webp" => "webp",
637        "image/bmp" => "bmp",
638        "image/tiff" => "tif",
639        _ => "png",
640    }
641}
642
643/// Render a table. `compact` selects between two serializers:
644///
645/// - **padded** (default) — docling-core's `tabulate(tablefmt="github")`: columns
646///   are padded to a fixed width (header width + a minimum padding of 2, or the
647///   widest data cell); numeric columns (every data cell parses as a number) are
648///   right-aligned, others left-aligned; separators are plain dashes of
649///   `width + 2`. Matches current published docling (DOCX/HTML conformance).
650/// - **compact** — `| a | b |` cells with single-dash `| - | - |` separators, no
651///   width padding. Matches the committed PDF groundtruth corpus, which predates
652///   the padded serializer.
653///
654/// Each cell is first escaped (`\n` → space, `|` → `&#124;`) so it can't break the
655/// table. Row 0 is the header.
656/// Whether a table cell counts as a number for column alignment, matching
657/// `tabulate`'s detection: an ordinary float/int (`f64`-parseable, covering
658/// `1e2`/`inf`/`+1.5`) **or** a thousands-separated number like `7,015`.
659fn is_number_cell(t: &str) -> bool {
660    t.parse::<f64>().is_ok() || is_thousands_number(t)
661}
662
663/// A number with comma thousands-separators, per `tabulate`'s
664/// `_float_with_thousands_separators` regex
665/// (`^(([+-]?[0-9]{1,3})(?:,([0-9]{3}))*)?(?(1)\.[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)?$`): the
666/// integer part is 1–3 digits then any number of `,ddd` groups; the fraction is
667/// optional (and, without an integer part, must have at least one digit).
668fn is_thousands_number(t: &str) -> bool {
669    let b = t.as_bytes();
670    let mut i = 0;
671    let start = i;
672    if i < b.len() && (b[i] == b'+' || b[i] == b'-') {
673        i += 1;
674    }
675    // First digit chunk: 1–3 digits.
676    let d0 = i;
677    while i < b.len() && b[i].is_ascii_digit() && i - d0 < 3 {
678        i += 1;
679    }
680    let has_int = i > d0;
681    if has_int {
682        // Subsequent `,ddd` groups (exactly three digits each).
683        while i + 3 < b.len() + 1
684            && b.get(i) == Some(&b',')
685            && b.get(i + 1).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
686            && b.get(i + 2).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
687            && b.get(i + 3).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit)
688        {
689            i += 4;
690        }
691    } else {
692        // A sign only counts with an integer part.
693        i = start;
694    }
695    // Optional fraction.
696    if i < b.len() && b[i] == b'.' {
697        i += 1;
698        let f0 = i;
699        while i < b.len() && b[i].is_ascii_digit() {
700            i += 1;
701        }
702        if !has_int && i == f0 {
703            return false; // `.` with no digits and no integer part
704        }
705    } else if !has_int {
706        return false; // neither integer nor fractional part
707    }
708    i == b.len()
709}
710
711pub(crate) fn render_table(table: &Table, compact: bool) -> String {
712    if table.rows.is_empty() {
713        return String::new();
714    }
715    let num_cols = table.rows.iter().map(Vec::len).max().unwrap_or(0);
716    if num_cols == 0 {
717        return String::new();
718    }
719
720    // Escaped, rectangular grid (ragged rows padded with empty cells). `tabulate`
721    // strips data cells of surrounding whitespace but leaves the header row as-is.
722    let grid: Vec<Vec<String>> = table
723        .rows
724        .iter()
725        .enumerate()
726        .map(|(r, row)| {
727            (0..num_cols)
728                .map(|c| {
729                    let cell = escape_cell(row.get(c).map(String::as_str).unwrap_or(""));
730                    if r == 0 {
731                        cell
732                    } else {
733                        cell.trim().to_string()
734                    }
735                })
736                .collect()
737        })
738        .collect();
739
740    if compact {
741        // Compact: cells joined by " | ", no padding, single-dash separators.
742        let render_row = |r: usize| -> String { format!("| {} |", grid[r].join(" | ")) };
743        let mut lines = Vec::with_capacity(grid.len() + 1);
744        lines.push(render_row(0));
745        let sep: Vec<&str> = (0..num_cols).map(|_| "-").collect();
746        lines.push(format!("| {} |", sep.join(" | ")));
747        for r in 1..grid.len() {
748            lines.push(render_row(r));
749        }
750        return lines.join("\n");
751    }
752
753    // Display width (Unicode scalar count — good enough for now).
754    let dw = |s: &str| s.chars().count();
755    let data_rows = 1..grid.len();
756
757    // A column is right-aligned when at least one data cell is numeric and every
758    // non-empty data cell is numeric — matching `tabulate`'s column typing, where
759    // empty cells are "missing" (ignored) and a number may carry thousands
760    // separators (`7,015`), which a plain `f64` parse rejects.
761    let right: Vec<bool> = (0..num_cols)
762        .map(|c| {
763            let mut any = false;
764            for r in data_rows.clone() {
765                let t = grid[r][c].trim();
766                if t.is_empty() {
767                    continue;
768                }
769                if !is_number_cell(t) {
770                    return false;
771                }
772                any = true;
773            }
774            any
775        })
776        .collect();
777
778    // Column width = max(header_width + MIN_PADDING(2), max data-cell width).
779    let width: Vec<usize> = (0..num_cols)
780        .map(|c| {
781            let mut w = dw(&grid[0][c]) + 2;
782            for r in data_rows.clone() {
783                w = w.max(dw(&grid[r][c]));
784            }
785            w
786        })
787        .collect();
788
789    let fmt_cell = |s: &str, c: usize| -> String {
790        let pad = " ".repeat(width[c].saturating_sub(dw(s)));
791        let body = if right[c] {
792            format!("{pad}{s}")
793        } else {
794            format!("{s}{pad}")
795        };
796        format!(" {body} ")
797    };
798    let render_row = |r: usize| -> String {
799        let cells: Vec<String> = (0..num_cols).map(|c| fmt_cell(&grid[r][c], c)).collect();
800        format!("|{}|", cells.join("|"))
801    };
802
803    let mut lines = Vec::with_capacity(grid.len() + 1);
804    lines.push(render_row(0));
805    let sep: Vec<String> = (0..num_cols).map(|c| "-".repeat(width[c] + 2)).collect();
806    lines.push(format!("|{}|", sep.join("|")));
807    for r in data_rows {
808        lines.push(render_row(r));
809    }
810    lines.join("\n")
811}
812
813/// Escape a table cell so it can't break the markdown table: newlines become
814/// spaces and pipes become the `&#124;` HTML entity (matches docling-core).
815fn escape_cell(s: &str) -> String {
816    s.replace('\n', " ").replace('|', "&#124;")
817}
818
819#[cfg(test)]
820mod tests {
821    use super::*;
822    use crate::PictureImage;
823
824    #[test]
825    fn renders_headings_paragraphs_and_lists() {
826        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("demo");
827        doc.add_heading(1, "Title");
828        doc.add_paragraph("Hello world.");
829        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
830            ordered: false,
831            number: 1,
832            first_in_list: true,
833            text: "first".into(),
834            level: 0,
835            marker: None,
836            location: None,
837            dclx: None,
838            href: None,
839            layer: None,
840        });
841        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
842            ordered: false,
843            number: 2,
844            first_in_list: false,
845            text: "second".into(),
846            level: 0,
847            marker: None,
848            location: None,
849            dclx: None,
850            href: None,
851            layer: None,
852        });
853        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
854        assert_eq!(md, "# Title\n\nHello world.\n\n- first\n- second\n");
855    }
856
857    /// docling-core 2.92 (#721): a single newline inside an item's text is a
858    /// GFM hard line break, a blank line stays a paragraph break, and a heading
859    /// collapses its newline to a space. Nested-table dumps stay verbatim.
860    #[test]
861    fn single_newlines_become_gfm_hard_line_breaks() {
862        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
863        doc.push(Node::Heading {
864            level: 1,
865            text: "Hello\nWorld".into(),
866        });
867        doc.push(Node::Paragraph {
868            text: "line one\nline two\n\npara two".into(),
869        });
870        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
871            ordered: false,
872            number: 1,
873            first_in_list: true,
874            text: "item\ncontinued".into(),
875            level: 0,
876            marker: None,
877            location: None,
878            dclx: None,
879            href: None,
880            layer: None,
881        });
882        doc.push(Node::TextDump("A1 B1 \n\n\nC1".into()));
883        assert_eq!(
884            doc.export_to_markdown(),
885            "# Hello World\n\nline one  \nline two\n\npara two\n\n- item  \ncontinued\n\nA1 B1 \n\n\nC1\n"
886        );
887    }
888
889    /// docling-core#540: inside a rich table cell a heading is plain text;
890    /// docling-core#724: a field region renders only its items' key/value text.
891    #[test]
892    fn table_cell_mode_and_field_regions() {
893        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
894        doc.push(Node::Heading {
895            level: 2,
896            text: "A  text".into(),
897        });
898        doc.push(Node::Paragraph {
899            text: "body".into(),
900        });
901        assert_eq!(to_markdown_table_cell(&doc, false), "A  text\n\nbody");
902        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "## A  text\n\nbody\n");
903
904        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("f");
905        doc.push(Node::FieldRegion {
906            items: vec![crate::FieldItem {
907                marker: None,
908                key: Some("Name:".into()),
909                value: Some("John Doe".into()),
910            }],
911        });
912        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "Name:\n\nJohn Doe\n");
913    }
914
915    #[test]
916    fn strict_renders_recovered_links_legacy_does_not() {
917        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("cv");
918        doc.add_paragraph("Find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.");
919        doc.links = vec![
920            ("LinkedIn".into(), "https://www.linkedin.com/in/x/".into()),
921            ("GitHub".into(), "https://github.com/x/".into()),
922        ];
923        // Legacy/docling mode: links are left untouched (conformance preserved).
924        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "Find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.\n");
925        // Strict mode: anchors become Markdown links.
926        assert_eq!(
927            doc.export_to_markdown_with(true),
928            "Find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/x/) or [GitHub](https://github.com/x/).\n"
929        );
930    }
931
932    #[test]
933    fn strict_links_match_escaped_anchor_and_consume_in_order() {
934        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
935        // The PDF assembler HTML-escapes prose, so by serialization time the body
936        // already carries `&amp;`; the anchor is stored un-escaped. The matcher must
937        // escape the anchor to find it. Two identical anchors link in document order.
938        doc.add_paragraph("AI &amp; ML here, and issues here, then issues there.");
939        doc.links = vec![
940            ("AI & ML".into(), "https://a/".into()),
941            ("issues".into(), "https://first/".into()),
942            ("issues".into(), "https://second/".into()),
943        ];
944        assert_eq!(
945            doc.export_to_markdown_with(true),
946            "[AI &amp; ML](https://a/) here, and [issues](https://first/) here, then [issues](https://second/) there.\n"
947        );
948    }
949
950    #[test]
951    fn renders_compact_table() {
952        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
953        // The compact form is opt-in (the PDF backend sets it); default output uses
954        // the padded GitHub serializer (covered by the regression fixtures).
955        doc.compact_tables = true;
956        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
957            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
958            location: None,
959            structure: None,
960            cell_blocks: None,
961            cells: None,
962            caption: None,
963        }));
964        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
965        assert_eq!(md, "| a | b |\n| - | - |\n| 1 | 2 |\n");
966    }
967
968    #[test]
969    fn renders_padded_github_table_by_default() {
970        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
971        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
972            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
973            location: None,
974            structure: None,
975            cell_blocks: None,
976            cells: None,
977            caption: None,
978        }));
979        let md = doc.export_to_markdown();
980        // Numeric data columns are right-aligned; columns padded to header+2.
981        assert_eq!(md, "|   a |   b |\n|-----|-----|\n|   1 |   2 |\n");
982    }
983
984    #[test]
985    fn strict_unescapes_inline_underscores_legacy_keeps_them() {
986        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
987        doc.add_heading(1, "a\\_b");
988        doc.add_paragraph("x\\_y");
989        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
990            ordered: false,
991            number: 1,
992            first_in_list: true,
993            text: "i\\_j".into(),
994            level: 0,
995            marker: None,
996            location: None,
997            dclx: None,
998            href: None,
999            layer: None,
1000        });
1001        // Legacy reproduces docling's `\_` escaping byte-for-byte.
1002        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "# a\\_b\n\nx\\_y\n\n- i\\_j\n");
1003        // Strict prefers literal underscores (Rust-only readability mode).
1004        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown_with(true), "# a_b\n\nx_y\n\n- i_j\n");
1005    }
1006
1007    /// Drive a document's nodes through [`MarkdownStreamer`] in the given page
1008    /// splits and assert the concatenated chunks equal the buffered serializer.
1009    fn assert_stream_matches(
1010        doc: &DoclingDocument,
1011        strict: bool,
1012        images: ImageMode,
1013        splits: &[usize],
1014    ) {
1015        let (want, want_artifacts) = to_markdown_images(doc, strict, images, "artifacts");
1016        let mut streamer =
1017            MarkdownStreamer::with_artifacts(strict, images, doc.compact_tables, "artifacts");
1018        let mut got = String::new();
1019        let mut got_artifacts = Vec::new();
1020        let mut start = 0;
1021        for &end in splits {
1022            // Links only matter in strict mode; feed them all with the first batch
1023            // that has content (document order is preserved by the queue).
1024            let links = if start == 0 {
1025                doc.links.as_slice()
1026            } else {
1027                &[]
1028            };
1029            got.push_str(&streamer.push(&doc.nodes[start..end], links));
1030            // Referenced mode: drain per push, as a real caller writing files
1031            // page by page would — numbering must continue across drains.
1032            got_artifacts.extend(streamer.take_artifacts());
1033            start = end;
1034        }
1035        got.push_str(&streamer.push(
1036            &doc.nodes[start..],
1037            if start == 0 {
1038                doc.links.as_slice()
1039            } else {
1040                &[]
1041            },
1042        ));
1043        got_artifacts.extend(streamer.take_artifacts());
1044        got.push_str(&streamer.finish());
1045        assert_eq!(
1046            got, want,
1047            "streamed output diverged (splits={splits:?}, strict={strict})"
1048        );
1049        assert_eq!(
1050            got_artifacts, want_artifacts,
1051            "streamed artifacts diverged (splits={splits:?}, strict={strict})"
1052        );
1053    }
1054
1055    #[test]
1056    fn streaming_is_byte_identical_to_buffered() {
1057        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
1058        doc.add_heading(1, "Title");
1059        doc.add_paragraph("First paragraph.");
1060        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
1061            ordered: false,
1062            number: 1,
1063            first_in_list: true,
1064            text: "a".into(),
1065            level: 0,
1066            marker: None,
1067            location: None,
1068            dclx: None,
1069            href: None,
1070            layer: None,
1071        });
1072        doc.push(Node::ListItem {
1073            ordered: false,
1074            number: 2,
1075            first_in_list: false,
1076            text: "b".into(),
1077            level: 0,
1078            marker: None,
1079            location: None,
1080            dclx: None,
1081            href: None,
1082            layer: None,
1083        });
1084        doc.push(Node::Code {
1085            language: Some("rust".into()),
1086            text: "let x = 1;".into(),
1087            orig: None,
1088            pretty: None,
1089        });
1090        doc.push(Node::Table(Table {
1091            rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()], vec!["1".into(), "2".into()]],
1092            location: None,
1093            structure: None,
1094            cell_blocks: None,
1095            cells: None,
1096            caption: None,
1097        }));
1098        doc.push(Node::Picture {
1099            caption: Some("Fig 1".into()),
1100            image: Some(PictureImage {
1101                mimetype: "image/png".into(),
1102                width: 2,
1103                height: 2,
1104                data: b"png-one".to_vec(),
1105            }),
1106            classification: None,
1107        });
1108        doc.add_paragraph("Last paragraph.");
1109        // A second embedded picture, so referenced mode must keep numbering
1110        // (`image_000001`) across chunk boundaries.
1111        doc.push(Node::Picture {
1112            caption: None,
1113            image: Some(PictureImage {
1114                mimetype: "image/png".into(),
1115                width: 2,
1116                height: 2,
1117                data: b"png-two".to_vec(),
1118            }),
1119            classification: None,
1120        });
1121
1122        // A run of list items must never straddle a split, so try splits that fall
1123        // on safe block boundaries (the streaming PDF assembler guarantees this).
1124        for &strict in &[false, true] {
1125            for &images in &[
1126                ImageMode::Placeholder,
1127                ImageMode::Embedded,
1128                ImageMode::Referenced,
1129            ] {
1130                for splits in [&[][..], &[1][..], &[2][..], &[4][..], &[1, 4, 6, 7][..]] {
1131                    assert_stream_matches(&doc, strict, images, splits);
1132                }
1133            }
1134        }
1135    }
1136
1137    #[test]
1138    fn streaming_applies_recovered_links_in_strict_mode() {
1139        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("d");
1140        doc.add_paragraph("See LinkedIn for details.");
1141        doc.add_paragraph("And GitHub too.");
1142        doc.links = vec![
1143            ("LinkedIn".into(), "https://lnkd/".into()),
1144            ("GitHub".into(), "https://gh/".into()),
1145        ];
1146        // The second anchor lives in the second block, so it must be carried across
1147        // the page boundary and placed when that block streams out.
1148        assert_stream_matches(&doc, true, ImageMode::Placeholder, &[1]);
1149    }
1150
1151    #[test]
1152    fn strict_tightens_punctuation_spacing_legacy_keeps_it() {
1153        let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
1154        doc.add_paragraph("see [ 37 , 36 ] and ( x ) .");
1155        // Legacy keeps docling's spacing byte-for-byte.
1156        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown(), "see [ 37 , 36 ] and ( x ) .\n");
1157        // Strict tightens punctuation for readable Markdown.
1158        assert_eq!(doc.export_to_markdown_with(true), "see [37, 36] and (x).\n");
1159    }
1160}