docling_core/document.rs
1//! The unified document representation.
2
3use crate::markdown::{to_markdown, to_markdown_images};
4use crate::ImageMode;
5
6/// The unified, format-agnostic document produced by every backend.
7///
8/// This is the heart of docling: backends parse their source format into a
9/// `DoclingDocument`, and serializers turn it back into Markdown, HTML, JSON,
10/// etc. Phase 0 uses a flat sequence of [`Node`]s; the production schema will
11/// match docling-core's body-tree-with-references layout.
12#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
13pub struct DoclingDocument {
14 /// Logical document name (usually the input file stem).
15 pub name: String,
16 /// Top-level content, in reading order.
17 pub nodes: Vec<Node>,
18 /// Default Markdown export mode for [`Self::export_to_markdown`]. `false`
19 /// (the default) reproduces docling's legacy output byte-for-byte; `true`
20 /// emits cleaner, more conformant Markdown. Set by `DocumentConverter`.
21 pub strict_markdown: bool,
22 /// Emit tables in the compact `| a | b |` / `| - | - |` form rather than
23 /// docling-core's width-padded GitHub serializer. The PDF backend sets this
24 /// (its committed groundtruth corpus predates the padded serializer); DOCX/HTML
25 /// leave it `false` to match current published docling.
26 pub compact_tables: bool,
27 /// Hyperlinks recovered from the source, as `(anchor_text, href)` pairs in
28 /// document order. docling's standard pipeline drops PDF link annotations, so
29 /// these are rendered as Markdown `[anchor](href)` **only in strict mode**
30 /// (legacy/docling output is left byte-for-byte unchanged). The PDF backend
31 /// populates this from pdfium link annotations; other backends leave it empty.
32 pub links: Vec<(String, String)>,
33 /// Conversion-confidence report (#183), populated by the PDF/image ML
34 /// pipeline; `None` for declarative conversions. Deliberately **not**
35 /// part of any document export (docling keeps it on the conversion
36 /// result, outside the document schema) — docling-serve surfaces it in
37 /// the HTTP response instead.
38 pub confidence: Option<crate::confidence::ConfidenceReport>,
39}
40
41/// A single piece of document content.
42#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
43pub enum Node {
44 /// A heading. `level` is 1-6.
45 Heading { level: u8, text: String },
46 /// A run of body text.
47 Paragraph { text: String },
48 /// A form checkbox (docling's `checkbox_selected`/`checkbox_unselected`): its
49 /// clean label `text` with the checked state. DocLang emits a `<checkbox>`
50 /// element head; Markdown/JSON render the task-list form (`- [x] `/`- [ ] `).
51 CheckboxItem { checked: bool, text: String },
52 /// A single list item at the given nesting `level` (0 = top). For ordered
53 /// items, `number` is the display number (honoring the list's `start`); it
54 /// is unused for unordered items. `first_in_list` marks the first item of a
55 /// list so the serializer can blank-line-separate adjacent sibling lists.
56 ///
57 /// `marker` is the DocLang enumeration marker (`"1."`, `"1.1."`, …) when the
58 /// backend provides one — HTML and DOCX set it for enumerated items, so
59 /// DocLang emits `<ldiv><marker>…</marker></ldiv>`; Markdown and the other
60 /// declarative backends leave it `None`, giving a bare `<ldiv/>` (matching
61 /// docling, whose Markdown backend passes no marker).
62 ListItem {
63 ordered: bool,
64 number: u64,
65 first_in_list: bool,
66 text: String,
67 level: u8,
68 marker: Option<String>,
69 /// Optional layout provenance (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511): the
70 /// four DocLang `<location>` values emitted inside the `<list>` right
71 /// after the item's `<ldiv>`. Set only by backends with real geometry
72 /// (e.g. PPTX shapes); `None` for the declarative backends. Kept on the
73 /// item itself (rather than a [`Node::Located`] wrapper) so consecutive
74 /// items still group into one `<list>`.
75 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
76 /// DocLang-only override for items whose DocLang form diverges from their
77 /// flat Markdown `text`. Markdown/JSON always render the fields above; the
78 /// DocLang serializer, when this is `Some`, takes the list kind, marker,
79 /// and content from here instead. Used for docx multilevel numbering
80 /// (Markdown shows `- 1.1. x`, DocLang an ordered `<marker>1.1.</marker>`
81 /// with clean text) and inline equations/formatting in list items.
82 dclx: Option<ListItemDclx>,
83 /// The item's hyperlink target, when its content is a link — docling's
84 /// HTML backend emits it as an `<href uri=…/>` in the item head, and the
85 /// anchor's Markdown link markup is stripped from the rendered content.
86 /// `None` for a plain item; ignored by Markdown/JSON.
87 href: Option<String>,
88 /// Non-body content layer (docling's HTML site chrome before the first
89 /// heading → `furniture`). DocLang emits a `<layer value=…/>` in the item
90 /// head; Markdown/JSON drop a non-body item entirely.
91 layer: Option<ContentLayer>,
92 },
93 /// A fenced code block.
94 Code {
95 language: Option<String>,
96 text: String,
97 /// The original (pre-enrichment) text when the CodeFormula model
98 /// rewrote `text`: docling keeps the raw extraction in the JSON `orig`
99 /// field while `text` carries the model output. `None` → `orig == text`.
100 orig: Option<String>,
101 /// A line-preserving rendering, when the backend can reconstruct one
102 /// but docling's own output for the format cannot. The PDF pipeline
103 /// sets it (docling-parse joins code lines with single spaces, so
104 /// `text` carries that flat docling-parity form): **strict** Markdown
105 /// prefers `pretty`, every byte-conformance surface (legacy Markdown,
106 /// JSON, DocLang, chunks) serializes `text`.
107 pretty: Option<String>,
108 },
109 /// A table. The first row is treated as the header.
110 Table(Table),
111 /// A picture/figure, with an optional caption and (when a backend extracts
112 /// it) the embedded image itself.
113 Picture {
114 caption: Option<String>,
115 /// Hyperlink annotation on the caption (docling's caption text item
116 /// `hyperlink`): the HTML backend sets it when an `<a href>` wraps the
117 /// image whose `alt` became the caption. DocLang emits the block-form
118 /// `<caption>` with an `<href uri=…/>` head; JSON puts `hyperlink` on
119 /// the caption item; Markdown and LaTeX print the plain caption text,
120 /// as docling does.
121 caption_href: Option<String>,
122 image: Option<PictureImage>,
123 /// DocumentPictureClassifier predictions (all classes, descending
124 /// confidence), when the picture-classification enrichment ran.
125 /// Serialized as docling's `classification` annotation + `meta` field
126 /// on the JSON picture item; Markdown/DocLang output is unaffected.
127 classification: Option<Vec<PictureClass>>,
128 },
129 /// A display-math formula item decoded by the CodeFormula enrichment:
130 /// `latex` is the model's LaTeX (no `$$` wrapping), `orig` the raw glyph
131 /// text extracted from the PDF. Markdown renders `$$latex$$`; JSON emits a
132 /// `formula` text item (docling's un-enriched pipeline instead emits a
133 /// placeholder paragraph — see the PDF assembler).
134 Formula {
135 latex: String,
136 orig: String,
137 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
138 },
139 /// A standalone caption item (docling's `DocItemLabel.CAPTION` text that
140 /// no picture or table claims): the HTML backend emits a `<figure>`'s
141 /// `<figcaption>` this way when the figure produced no picture and its
142 /// first item is not a table (docling#4050). `href` is the caption's
143 /// hyperlink annotation (the first link inside the figcaption); Markdown
144 /// renders it as `[text](href)`, JSON puts `hyperlink` on the caption
145 /// item, DocLang emits the block-form `<caption>` with an `<href>` head.
146 Caption { text: String, href: Option<String> },
147 /// A chart (docling's `PictureItem` classified as a chart, carrying a
148 /// `PictureTabularChartData` annotation). Markdown and JSON render it exactly
149 /// like a [`Node::Picture`] placeholder (an `<!-- image -->` / `picture`
150 /// item); the DocLang serializer emits `<picture class="chart">` with a
151 /// `<label value="{kind}"/>` and the data `table` as a `<tabular>`.
152 Chart {
153 /// docling's classification label, e.g. `bar_chart`, `line_chart`.
154 kind: String,
155 /// The chart's data grid (row 0 is the header band).
156 table: Table,
157 /// The chart title (docling's caption item on the picture).
158 caption: Option<String>,
159 /// DocLang `<location>` provenance for the picture element.
160 location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
161 },
162 /// A logical grouping of child nodes (e.g. a list, a section, a spreadsheet
163 /// sheet). `name` is docling's group name when it differs from the label —
164 /// an xlsx sheet group is `label: "sheet"`, `name: Some("Sheet1")`. `layer`
165 /// puts the group *and* everything it contains on a non-body content layer
166 /// (a hidden sheet is `invisible`), which is how the serializers that only
167 /// render body content know to skip it; DocLang stamps each child with the
168 /// layer token, exactly as a [`Node::Furniture`] wrapper on each would.
169 /// DocLang has no group element, so a group is transparent there.
170 Group {
171 label: String,
172 name: Option<String>,
173 layer: Option<ContentLayer>,
174 children: Vec<Node>,
175 },
176 /// A form key-value region (docling's `field_region`): a set of form fields,
177 /// each pairing an optional marker, key, and value. Backends detect these
178 /// from form structure (e.g. HTML's `keyN` / `keyN_valueM` / `keyN_marker`
179 /// `id`-convention); the serializers render each item's parts as separate
180 /// labelled texts (`marker` / `field_key` / `field_value`).
181 FieldRegion { items: Vec<FieldItem> },
182 /// Rich inline content — docling's `InlineGroup`: a run of styled text
183 /// segments that a backend captured with formatting (`<bold>`, `<italic>`,
184 /// `<underline>`, `<strikethrough>`, sub/superscript, inline `<code>`) the
185 /// flat Markdown text cannot represent. Markdown/JSON render this exactly
186 /// like `Paragraph { text: md_text }` (so their output is unchanged); the
187 /// DocLang serializer uses the structured `runs`. `unwrapped` is set when the
188 /// group's docling parent is a heading/text (no enclosing `<text>` wrapper).
189 InlineGroup {
190 unwrapped: bool,
191 runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
192 md_text: String,
193 },
194 /// A node in a non-body content layer — `furniture` (page headers/footers,
195 /// the HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome) or `notes` (docx comments).
196 /// Markdown and JSON omit these layers by default; DocLang renders the wrapped
197 /// node with a `<layer value="{layer}"/>` head.
198 Furniture {
199 layer: ContentLayer,
200 inner: Box<Node>,
201 },
202 /// One reviewer comment: docling's notes-layer `comment_section` group
203 /// holding a single text item. `name` is docling's own — `comment-{id}` for
204 /// a docx `w:comment`, `comment-{sheet}-{cell}` for a spreadsheet cell note.
205 /// JSON emits the group plus its notes-layer text; DocLang emits the flat
206 /// `<text><layer value="notes"/>…</text>` upstream writes (its DocLang
207 /// carries no group for comments); Markdown and LaTeX omit the notes layer.
208 ///
209 /// `refs_note_text` picks what a [`Node::Commented`] annotation points at,
210 /// mirroring an upstream asymmetry: docling-core's `add_comment` appends the
211 /// **note text**'s ref to each target (which is what the xlsx backend gets),
212 /// while the docx backend overwrites that with the **group**'s ref so a
213 /// comment's replies group together.
214 CommentSection {
215 name: String,
216 text: String,
217 refs_note_text: bool,
218 },
219 /// A body item annotated by reviewer comments: `comments` are indices into
220 /// the document's [`Node::CommentSection`] nodes, in document order. JSON
221 /// emits docling's `comments: [{"$ref": …}]` on the item, each ref pointing
222 /// where the section says (see [`Node::CommentSection::refs_note_text`]);
223 /// every other serializer renders `inner` unchanged.
224 Commented {
225 comments: Vec<usize>,
226 inner: Box<Node>,
227 },
228 /// A node carrying layout provenance — the four DocLang `<location>` values
229 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, normalized to 0–511) docling attaches to elements from
230 /// backends with real geometry (e.g. the slide shapes in PPTX). Markdown and
231 /// JSON render the wrapped node unchanged; DocLang emits the `<location>`
232 /// tokens as the element's first children.
233 Located {
234 location: [u16; 4],
235 inner: Box<Node>,
236 },
237 /// Exact page provenance for a backend whose geometry already *is* the
238 /// page's coordinate system — an XLSX item's cell-index box on its sheet,
239 /// which docling writes verbatim (`bbox` in a top-left origin, the
240 /// `charspan` the backend chose) and sizes the page from. The 0–511 grid
241 /// of a [`Node::Located`] cannot round-trip such integers exactly, so the
242 /// JSON export reads this wrapper; every other serializer renders `inner`
243 /// unchanged (DocLang keeps taking its `<location>` tokens from the grid).
244 Prov {
245 page_no: usize,
246 /// `[l, t, r, b]`, page units, top-left origin.
247 bbox: [f32; 4],
248 /// docling's `charspan` for the item (`[0, 0]` for an XLSX table).
249 charspan: [usize; 2],
250 /// The item's creation rank among its siblings, when that differs
251 /// from the node order: docling numbers `#/tables/N` / `#/texts/N` /
252 /// `#/pictures/N` in the order it *creates* items (a sheet's tables,
253 /// then its images, then its charts) and only afterwards sorts the
254 /// container's children by position. The JSON export adds siblings in
255 /// this order and lays their refs out in node order; `None` when the
256 /// two orders coincide.
257 seq: Option<usize>,
258 inner: Box<Node>,
259 },
260 /// A PDF page header or footer (docling's `page_header`/`page_footer`
261 /// furniture): DocLang emits `<page_header>`/`<page_footer>` with a
262 /// `<layer value="furniture"/>` head, the four `<location>` tokens, then the
263 /// text. Markdown and JSON omit it like other furniture.
264 PageFurniture {
265 footer: bool,
266 location: [u16; 4],
267 text: String,
268 },
269 /// A page boundary — docling's implicit page break between pages. The PPTX
270 /// backend emits one between consecutive slides. DocLang renders it as
271 /// `<page_break/>`; Markdown and JSON omit it (matching docling's default
272 /// exports, which carry page breaks only in the document model).
273 PageBreak,
274 /// An invisible page marker — the first node of every page the PDF paths
275 /// assemble: the 1-based page number and the page size in PDF points. It
276 /// carries exactly what the JSON export needs to populate docling's
277 /// `pages` map and to denormalize the 0–511 `<location>` grid back into
278 /// BOTTOMLEFT point bboxes for per-item `prov` (#171). Every other
279 /// serializer skips it, so Markdown / DocLang / DocTags output is
280 /// byte-for-byte unchanged.
281 PageInfo {
282 /// 1-based page number (0 = "not yet numbered": the assembler emits
283 /// the marker, the document-level collector stamps the real number).
284 page_no: usize,
285 /// Page width in PDF points.
286 width: f32,
287 /// Page height in PDF points.
288 height: f32,
289 },
290 /// A node docling keeps in the document model (and DocLang) but leaves out
291 /// of the Markdown and JSON exports — e.g. an ODF *presentation*'s pictures
292 /// and charts, which appear in the `.dclx` body but not in its `.md`/`.json`.
293 /// DocLang renders the wrapped node in place; Markdown and JSON skip it.
294 DoclangOnly(Box<Node>),
295 /// A verbatim plain-text dump — docling's plain-text backend emits the whole
296 /// file as a single text item (used for legacy USPTO APS `.txt` grants, which
297 /// docling routes to plain text rather than its APS parser). The stored string
298 /// is the file body, one record per line. Markdown/JSON render it as one text
299 /// block; the DocLang serializer reproduces minidom's per-line layout, CDATA-
300 /// escaping only the lines that need it (see `emit_text_dump`).
301 TextDump(String),
302}
303
304/// Vertical text position of an [`InlineRun`] — docling's `Script`.
305#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
306pub enum Script {
307 #[default]
308 Baseline,
309 Sub,
310 Super,
311}
312
313/// One styled segment of a [`Node::InlineGroup`] — the docling.rs analogue of a
314/// `TextItem` inside an `InlineGroup`, carrying the ancestor formatting docling
315/// tracks. `text` is already whitespace-normalized/trimmed (one segment per
316/// source text node). A hyperlink is intentionally not stored: DocLang drops the
317/// target inside inline scope, keeping only the anchor text.
318#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
319pub struct InlineRun {
320 pub text: String,
321 pub bold: bool,
322 pub italic: bool,
323 pub underline: bool,
324 pub strike: bool,
325 pub script: Script,
326 pub code: bool,
327 /// An inline equation (`text` holds LaTeX): DocLang renders `<formula>…`,
328 /// Markdown/JSON keep the `$…$` already baked into the group's `md_text`.
329 pub formula: bool,
330}
331
332/// A DocLang content layer other than the default `body` (see [`Node::Furniture`]).
333#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
334pub enum ContentLayer {
335 /// Page headers/footers, HTML `<title>`, site navigation/chrome.
336 Furniture,
337 /// Editorial notes (docx reviewer comments).
338 Notes,
339 /// Invisible content (hidden spreadsheet sheets).
340 Invisible,
341}
342
343impl ContentLayer {
344 /// The `<layer value="…"/>` token value.
345 pub fn value(self) -> &'static str {
346 match self {
347 ContentLayer::Furniture => "furniture",
348 ContentLayer::Notes => "notes",
349 ContentLayer::Invisible => "invisible",
350 }
351 }
352}
353
354/// DocLang-only content for a [`Node::ListItem`] whose DocLang form differs from
355/// its flat Markdown `text` (see [`Node::ListItem::dclx`]). `ordered` picks the
356/// enclosing `<list>` kind, `marker` the `<ldiv><marker>`; content is `runs`
357/// (structured equations/formatting) when non-empty, else `text` re-parsed for
358/// inline markers.
359#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
360pub struct ListItemDclx {
361 pub ordered: bool,
362 pub marker: Option<String>,
363 pub text: String,
364 pub runs: Vec<InlineRun>,
365}
366
367impl InlineRun {
368 /// A run with no active formatting (renders as bare inline text).
369 pub fn is_plain(&self) -> bool {
370 !self.bold
371 && !self.italic
372 && !self.underline
373 && !self.strike
374 && !self.code
375 && !self.formula
376 && self.script == Script::Baseline
377 }
378}
379
380/// Build the [`Node`] for a paragraph of inline content from its structured
381/// `runs` and Markdown text, applying docling's `InlineGroup` boundary:
382///
383/// * a single plain run (or none) → a plain [`Node::Paragraph`] (which the
384/// serializers render as `<text>…</text>`, and a lone hyperlink via `<href>`);
385/// * a single uniformly-formatted run, or two or more runs → a
386/// [`Node::InlineGroup`]. `unwrapped` (the group's docling parent is a
387/// heading, so no enclosing `<text>`) only applies to multi-run groups.
388///
389/// Markdown/JSON render the group's `md_text`, so their output is identical to
390/// emitting a `Paragraph` — the structured runs are DocLang-only.
391pub fn inline_paragraph_node(md_text: String, runs: Vec<InlineRun>, unwrapped: bool) -> Node {
392 let single_plain = runs.len() <= 1 && runs.first().is_none_or(|r| r.is_plain());
393 if single_plain {
394 Node::Paragraph { text: md_text }
395 } else {
396 Node::InlineGroup {
397 unwrapped: unwrapped && runs.len() >= 2,
398 runs,
399 md_text,
400 }
401 }
402}
403
404/// One entry of a [`Node::FieldRegion`]: a marker/key/value triple, any of which
405/// may be absent. Mirrors docling's `field_item` with its `marker` / `field_key`
406/// / `field_value` child texts.
407#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
408pub struct FieldItem {
409 pub marker: Option<String>,
410 pub key: Option<String>,
411 pub value: Option<String>,
412}
413
414/// One DocumentPictureClassifier prediction — docling-core's
415/// `PictureClassificationClass` (`class_name` + `confidence`).
416#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
417pub struct PictureClass {
418 /// e.g. `bar_chart`, `logo`, `signature` (the classifier's 26-label set).
419 pub class_name: String,
420 pub confidence: f32,
421}
422
423/// An extracted picture's raw encoded bytes plus its mimetype and pixel size —
424/// the docling.rs analogue of docling-core's `ImageRef`.
425#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
426pub struct PictureImage {
427 /// e.g. `image/png`, `image/jpeg`.
428 pub mimetype: String,
429 pub width: u32,
430 pub height: u32,
431 /// The image file bytes, exactly as embedded (PNG/JPEG/…).
432 pub data: Vec<u8>,
433}
434
435impl PictureImage {
436 /// A `data:` URI for the image (`data:<mimetype>;base64,<…>`).
437 pub fn data_uri(&self) -> String {
438 format!(
439 "data:{};base64,{}",
440 self.mimetype,
441 crate::base64::encode(&self.data)
442 )
443 }
444}
445
446/// One table cell as a first-class object (#240) — the Rust counterpart of
447/// docling's `TableCell`: its text, page geometry, grid rectangle and header
448/// roles. Produced by the PDF TableFormer paths from the predicted OTSL
449/// structure; `bbox` is `[l, t, r, b]` in page points with a top-left origin.
450#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
451pub struct TableCell {
452 pub text: String,
453 /// `[l, t, r, b]`, page points, top-left origin; `None` without geometry.
454 pub bbox: Option<[f32; 4]>,
455 /// Anchor grid position (0-based row/column offsets).
456 pub start_row: usize,
457 pub start_col: usize,
458 /// Span extents (≥ 1); the covered grid positions repeat the cell's text
459 /// in [`Table::rows`].
460 pub row_span: usize,
461 pub col_span: usize,
462 /// OTSL `ched` — a column-header cell.
463 pub column_header: bool,
464 /// OTSL `rhed` — a row-header cell.
465 pub row_header: bool,
466 /// OTSL `srow` — a section-row cell.
467 pub row_section: bool,
468}
469
470/// A simple row-major table. By default `rows[0]` is the header row; a
471/// [`TableStructure`] overlay overrides that and adds column spans.
472#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
473pub struct Table {
474 pub rows: Vec<Vec<String>>,
475 /// Optional layout provenance: the four DocLang `<location>` values
476 /// (`x0,y0,x1,y1`, each already normalized to the 0–511 resolution) emitted
477 /// before the table's cells. Set only by backends with real geometry (e.g.
478 /// the spreadsheet backend, whose cell grid yields a bounding box); left
479 /// `None` by declarative backends, which have no coordinates.
480 pub location: Option<[u16; 4]>,
481 /// Optional OTSL structure overlay for backends that parse real table
482 /// geometry (USPTO CALS): explicit header-row count and horizontal-span
483 /// continuations. `None` → the default (row 0 is the header, no spans).
484 /// `rows` still carries the full text grid (span text replicated) for
485 /// Markdown/JSON; DocLang uses this overlay to emit `<ched/>`/`<lcel/>`.
486 pub structure: Option<TableStructure>,
487 /// Optional per-cell block content, parallel to `rows`. A *rich* cell (an
488 /// ODF cell holding a list, several paragraphs, or a nested table) carries
489 /// its DocLang blocks here; the DocLang serializer emits them after the
490 /// cell token instead of the flat `rows` text. Markdown/JSON ignore this
491 /// and render `rows`, so their output is unchanged. `None` (or an empty
492 /// `Vec` for a given cell) → the flat text is used everywhere.
493 pub cell_blocks: Option<Vec<Vec<Vec<Node>>>>,
494 /// Optional caption (docling's `TableItem.captions`): the JATS
495 /// `<table-wrap>` label+caption, an HTML `<caption>`, etc. Markdown renders
496 /// it as a text line *before* the grid; JSON emits a caption text item the
497 /// table references; DocLang emits a `<caption>` as the table's first child.
498 /// `None` → the table has no caption.
499 pub caption: Option<String>,
500 /// Optional per-cell bounding boxes, same shape as [`Self::rows`]: `[l, t,
501 /// r, b]` in page points with a **top-left** origin (the PDF pipeline's
502 /// native space). Set by the ML pipeline's TableFormer paths — a spanned
503 /// cell repeats its anchor's box across the covered grid positions — and
504 /// First-class cells (#240): the authoritative per-cell records —
505 /// text, page geometry, spans and header roles — when the backend
506 /// produces them (the PDF TableFormer paths do; declarative backends
507 /// leave `None`). [`Self::rows`] stays the dense text grid every
508 /// serializer renders (a spanning cell's text is replicated across its
509 /// covered positions there); JSON serializes these cells verbatim when
510 /// present, and the DocLang structure overlay is derived from them.
511 pub cells: Option<Vec<TableCell>>,
512}
513
514impl Table {
515 /// A cell's text at a grid position, `None` outside the grid.
516 pub fn cell_text(&self, row: usize, col: usize) -> Option<&str> {
517 self.rows.get(row)?.get(col).map(String::as_str)
518 }
519
520 /// Replace the text at a grid position; `false` (and no change) outside
521 /// the grid. When a first-class cell covers the position, the whole
522 /// cell is updated: its record text and every grid position its span
523 /// covers, so the repair shows once in Markdown, not once per covered
524 /// column.
525 pub fn set_cell_text(&mut self, row: usize, col: usize, text: impl Into<String>) -> bool {
526 if self.rows.get(row).and_then(|r| r.get(col)).is_none() {
527 return false;
528 }
529 let text = text.into();
530 let covering = self.cells.as_mut().and_then(|cells| {
531 cells.iter_mut().find(|c| {
532 (c.start_row..c.start_row + c.row_span).contains(&row)
533 && (c.start_col..c.start_col + c.col_span).contains(&col)
534 })
535 });
536 if let Some(cell) = covering {
537 cell.text = text.clone();
538 let (r0, r1) = (cell.start_row, cell.start_row + cell.row_span);
539 let (c0, c1) = (cell.start_col, cell.start_col + cell.col_span);
540 for r in self.rows.iter_mut().take(r1).skip(r0) {
541 for slot in r.iter_mut().take(c1).skip(c0) {
542 *slot = text.clone();
543 }
544 }
545 } else {
546 self.rows[row][col] = text;
547 }
548 true
549 }
550
551 /// Derive first-class cells (#240) from the dense grid plus the
552 /// [`TableStructure`] overlay — how declarative tables (DOCX/XLSX merged
553 /// regions, HTML `th`/spans, ODF covered cells, USPTO CALS) get real
554 /// `TableCell` records without page geometry. Anchors are the positions
555 /// not marked as span continuations; extents scan the continuation grids
556 /// right/down (matching the DocLang `lcel`/`ucel` reading). Header roles
557 /// come from the per-cell `col_header`/`row_header` grids when present,
558 /// else the `header_row` band, else docling's declarative default (row 0
559 /// is the header). Without any overlay every position is a 1×1 cell.
560 pub fn derive_cells(&self) -> Vec<TableCell> {
561 let s = self.structure.as_ref();
562 let flag = |grid: Option<&Vec<Vec<bool>>>, r: usize, c: usize| {
563 grid.and_then(|g| g.get(r))
564 .and_then(|row| row.get(c))
565 .copied()
566 .unwrap_or(false)
567 };
568 let col_cont = |r: usize, c: usize| flag(s.map(|s| &s.col_continuation), r, c);
569 let row_cont = |r: usize, c: usize| flag(s.map(|s| &s.row_continuation), r, c);
570 let is_col_header = |r: usize, c: usize| match s {
571 Some(st) if !st.col_header.is_empty() => flag(Some(&st.col_header), r, c),
572 Some(st) if !st.header_row.is_empty() => st.header_row.get(r).copied().unwrap_or(false),
573 _ => r == 0,
574 };
575 let mut cells = Vec::new();
576 for (r, row) in self.rows.iter().enumerate() {
577 for (c, text) in row.iter().enumerate() {
578 if col_cont(r, c) || row_cont(r, c) {
579 continue; // covered by a span anchor
580 }
581 let mut col_span = 1;
582 while c + col_span < row.len() && col_cont(r, c + col_span) {
583 col_span += 1;
584 }
585 let mut row_span = 1;
586 while r + row_span < self.rows.len() && row_cont(r + row_span, c) {
587 row_span += 1;
588 }
589 cells.push(TableCell {
590 text: text.clone(),
591 bbox: None,
592 start_row: r,
593 start_col: c,
594 row_span,
595 col_span,
596 column_header: is_col_header(r, c),
597 row_header: flag(s.map(|s| &s.row_header), r, c),
598 row_section: false,
599 });
600 }
601 }
602 cells
603 }
604
605 /// The number of leading grid rows that form the column header —
606 /// docling-core's `_count_header_rows` (docling-core#723, 2.96) shared by
607 /// the Markdown serializer and the chunker's dataframe view: a row counts
608 /// only when a `column_header` cell *starts* on it (a header spanning
609 /// several rows is replicated into each row it covers, and counting those
610 /// would pull the data rows beneath it into the header block). Two
611 /// special cases: `1` when no cell carries the flag at all, so tables from
612 /// backends that never set it keep row 0 as the header; `0` when flags
613 /// exist but none starts on row 0 — then nothing is promotable and every
614 /// row stays in the body. Uses the first-class [`Self::cells`] when
615 /// present (the PDF pipeline's TableFormer flags), else the cells derived
616 /// from the structure overlay.
617 ///
618 /// A pivot table's row headers no longer disturb this: docling#4216 flags
619 /// a spanning `<th>` row as `row_header`, not `column_header`, so the
620 /// first data row is no longer folded into the header block and the
621 /// deviation this port carried for docling-core#765 is gone.
622 pub fn header_row_count(&self) -> usize {
623 if self.rows.is_empty() {
624 return 0;
625 }
626 let derived;
627 let cells: &[TableCell] = match &self.cells {
628 Some(c) if !c.is_empty() => c,
629 _ => {
630 derived = self.derive_cells();
631 &derived
632 }
633 };
634 if !cells.iter().any(|c| c.column_header) {
635 return 1;
636 }
637 (0..self.rows.len())
638 .take_while(|&r| cells.iter().any(|c| c.column_header && c.start_row == r))
639 .count()
640 }
641
642 /// The first-class cell covering a grid position, if any.
643 pub fn cell_at(&self, row: usize, col: usize) -> Option<&TableCell> {
644 self.cells.as_ref()?.iter().find(|c| {
645 (c.start_row..c.start_row + c.row_span).contains(&row)
646 && (c.start_col..c.start_col + c.col_span).contains(&col)
647 })
648 }
649
650 /// A cell's bounding box (`[l, t, r, b]`, page points, top-left origin);
651 /// `None` when no cell with geometry covers the position.
652 pub fn cell_bbox(&self, row: usize, col: usize) -> Option<[f32; 4]> {
653 self.cell_at(row, col)?.bbox
654 }
655
656 /// Set (or replace) the bounding box of the cell covering a grid
657 /// position; `false` outside the text grid. A table without first-class
658 /// cells materializes them first (one 1×1 cell per grid position, texts
659 /// from the grid), so declarative tables can be annotated too.
660 pub fn set_cell_bbox(&mut self, row: usize, col: usize, bbox: [f32; 4]) -> bool {
661 if self.rows.get(row).and_then(|r| r.get(col)).is_none() {
662 return false;
663 }
664 let rows = &self.rows;
665 let cells = self.cells.get_or_insert_with(|| {
666 rows.iter()
667 .enumerate()
668 .flat_map(|(r, cols)| {
669 cols.iter().enumerate().map(move |(c, text)| TableCell {
670 text: text.clone(),
671 bbox: None,
672 start_row: r,
673 start_col: c,
674 row_span: 1,
675 col_span: 1,
676 column_header: false,
677 row_header: false,
678 row_section: false,
679 })
680 })
681 .collect()
682 });
683 match cells.iter_mut().find(|c| {
684 (c.start_row..c.start_row + c.row_span).contains(&row)
685 && (c.start_col..c.start_col + c.col_span).contains(&col)
686 }) {
687 Some(cell) => {
688 cell.bbox = Some(bbox);
689 true
690 }
691 None => {
692 cells.push(TableCell {
693 text: self.rows[row][col].clone(),
694 bbox: Some(bbox),
695 start_row: row,
696 start_col: col,
697 row_span: 1,
698 col_span: 1,
699 column_header: false,
700 row_header: false,
701 row_section: false,
702 });
703 true
704 }
705 }
706 }
707
708 /// The anchor position of the cell whose box overlaps `bbox` best
709 /// (largest intersection-over-union), ties resolved in cell order.
710 /// `None` when nothing overlaps or the table carries no geometry. This
711 /// is the lookup half of the repair workflow: find the cell an external
712 /// OCR box refers to, then [`Self::set_cell_text`] it.
713 pub fn find_cell_by_bbox(&self, bbox: [f32; 4]) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
714 let area = |b: &[f32; 4]| ((b[2] - b[0]) * (b[3] - b[1])).max(0.0);
715 let mut best: Option<(f32, (usize, usize))> = None;
716 for cell in self.cells.as_deref()?.iter() {
717 let Some(cb) = cell.bbox else { continue };
718 let iw = (bbox[2].min(cb[2]) - bbox[0].max(cb[0])).max(0.0);
719 let ih = (bbox[3].min(cb[3]) - bbox[1].max(cb[1])).max(0.0);
720 let inter = iw * ih;
721 if inter <= 0.0 {
722 continue;
723 }
724 let iou = inter / (area(&bbox) + area(&cb) - inter).max(f32::EPSILON);
725 if best.is_none_or(|(b, _)| iou > b) {
726 best = Some((iou, (cell.start_row, cell.start_col)));
727 }
728 }
729 best.map(|(_, pos)| pos)
730 }
731
732 /// Locate the cell overlapping `bbox` best and replace its text — the
733 /// one-call form of the OCR-repair loop. Returns the updated anchor.
734 pub fn update_cell_by_bbox(
735 &mut self,
736 bbox: [f32; 4],
737 text: impl Into<String>,
738 ) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
739 let (row, col) = self.find_cell_by_bbox(bbox)?;
740 self.set_cell_text(row, col, text);
741 Some((row, col))
742 }
743}
744
745/// OTSL structure overlay for a [`Table`], parallel to [`Table::rows`].
746#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
747pub struct TableStructure {
748 /// Per-row: `true` if the row's non-empty cells are column headers
749 /// (emitted as `<ched/>` rather than `<fcel/>`).
750 pub header_row: Vec<bool>,
751 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
752 /// horizontal span from its left neighbour (emitted as `<lcel/>`).
753 pub col_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
754 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell continues a
755 /// vertical span from the cell above (emitted as `<ucel/>`). Empty or all
756 /// `false` when the backend has no vertical spans (e.g. USPTO CALS).
757 pub row_continuation: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
758 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a non-empty cell is a row
759 /// header (emitted as `<rhed/>`) — a chart's category column. Empty when
760 /// the table has no row headers.
761 pub row_header: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
762 /// Same shape as [`Table::rows`]; `true` where a cell is a *column header*
763 /// cell (an HTML `<th>`). When non-empty this per-cell grid supersedes the
764 /// per-row [`Self::header_row`] for `<ched/>` emission, matching docling's
765 /// cell-level `column_header` flag; the chunker derives its header-row
766 /// count from it.
767 pub col_header: Vec<Vec<bool>>,
768}
769
770impl DoclingDocument {
771 /// Create an empty document with the given name.
772 pub fn new(name: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
773 Self {
774 name: name.into(),
775 nodes: Vec::new(),
776 strict_markdown: false,
777 compact_tables: false,
778 links: Vec::new(),
779 confidence: None,
780 }
781 }
782
783 /// Append a node.
784 /// The document's top-level tables in reading order — the read half of
785 /// the post-extraction table API (#238). [`Node::Located`] wrappers (the
786 /// PDF pipeline attaches layout provenance that way) are looked through;
787 /// tables nested inside rich table cells (`Table::cell_blocks`) are not
788 /// traversed.
789 pub fn tables(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &Table> {
790 fn unwrap_table(n: &Node) -> Option<&Table> {
791 match n {
792 Node::Table(t) => Some(t),
793 Node::Located { inner, .. } | Node::Prov { inner, .. } => unwrap_table(inner),
794 _ => None,
795 }
796 }
797 self.nodes.iter().filter_map(unwrap_table)
798 }
799
800 /// Mutable access to the document's top-level tables, for repair
801 /// workflows (#238): locate a cell via [`Table::find_cell_by_bbox`], fix
802 /// its text with [`Table::set_cell_text`], then re-export — every
803 /// serializer reads the same grid.
804 pub fn tables_mut(&mut self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &mut Table> {
805 fn unwrap_table(n: &mut Node) -> Option<&mut Table> {
806 match n {
807 Node::Table(t) => Some(t),
808 Node::Located { inner, .. } | Node::Prov { inner, .. } => unwrap_table(inner),
809 _ => None,
810 }
811 }
812 self.nodes.iter_mut().filter_map(unwrap_table)
813 }
814
815 pub fn push(&mut self, node: Node) {
816 self.nodes.push(node);
817 }
818
819 /// Convenience: append a heading.
820 pub fn add_heading(&mut self, level: u8, text: impl Into<String>) {
821 self.push(Node::Heading {
822 level,
823 text: text.into(),
824 });
825 }
826
827 /// Convenience: append a paragraph.
828 pub fn add_paragraph(&mut self, text: impl Into<String>) {
829 self.push(Node::Paragraph { text: text.into() });
830 }
831
832 /// Serialize the document to Markdown.
833 ///
834 /// The Rust equivalent of docling-core's
835 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_markdown()`. Uses [`Self::strict_markdown`] to
836 /// pick between docling-legacy output (default) and the cleaner, more
837 /// conformant variant.
838 pub fn export_to_markdown(&self) -> String {
839 to_markdown(self, self.strict_markdown)
840 }
841
842 /// Serialize to Markdown, explicitly choosing the mode regardless of
843 /// [`Self::strict_markdown`]. `strict = true` produces cleaner, more
844 /// conformant Markdown (code-fence languages preserved, no inline-run
845 /// spacing artifacts); `strict = false` reproduces docling's legacy output.
846 pub fn export_to_markdown_with(&self, strict: bool) -> String {
847 to_markdown(self, strict)
848 }
849
850 /// Markdown for this document as the *content of a rich table cell*
851 /// (docling-core's `in_table_cell` serialization, docling-core#540):
852 /// headings render as plain text since Markdown tables can't hold them.
853 /// Backends build a sub-document per rich cell and flatten this into the
854 /// cell text; no trailing newline.
855 pub fn export_to_table_cell_markdown(&self) -> String {
856 crate::markdown::to_markdown_table_cell(self, self.strict_markdown)
857 }
858
859 /// Serialize to docling-core's native JSON wire format (`DoclingDocument`
860 /// schema), pretty-printed — the Rust equivalent of
861 /// `DoclingDocument.export_to_dict()` / `save_as_json()`. The output loads
862 /// back into Python docling-core and round-trips to the same Markdown.
863 pub fn export_to_json(&self) -> String {
864 serde_json::to_string_pretty(&self.export_to_json_value())
865 .expect("DoclingDocument JSON is always serializable")
866 }
867
868 /// The same JSON wire format as [`Self::export_to_json`], as a
869 /// `serde_json::Value` — for callers that append response-level extras
870 /// (docling-serve adds the confidence report, #183) before serializing.
871 pub fn export_to_json_value(&self) -> serde_json::Value {
872 crate::json::to_json(self)
873 }
874
875 /// Serialize to a complete LaTeX document — the Rust counterpart of
876 /// docling-core's `LaTeXDocSerializer` with default parameters (docling
877 /// 2.124's `--to latex`, #317). No trailing newline, like the upstream
878 /// CLI's `<stem>.tex`.
879 pub fn export_to_latex(&self) -> String {
880 crate::latex::to_latex(self)
881 }
882
883 /// Serialize to DocLang XML (`<doclang version="0.7">…`), the markup that
884 /// lives inside a `.dclx` archive — the Rust counterpart of docling-core's
885 /// `export_to_doclang()` with default parameters. No trailing newline; the
886 /// archive writer appends exactly one.
887 pub fn export_to_doclang(&self) -> String {
888 crate::doclang::export_to_doclang(&self.nodes)
889 }
890
891 /// Serialize to Markdown with an explicit picture [`ImageMode`] (mirrors
892 /// docling's `image_mode`). Returns the Markdown and, for
893 /// [`ImageMode::Referenced`], the `(relative-path, bytes)` of each image the
894 /// caller should write next to the Markdown file. `artifacts_dir` is the
895 /// directory name used in referenced links.
896 pub fn export_to_markdown_with_images(
897 &self,
898 image_mode: ImageMode,
899 artifacts_dir: &str,
900 ) -> (String, Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>) {
901 to_markdown_images(self, self.strict_markdown, image_mode, artifacts_dir)
902 }
903}
904
905#[cfg(test)]
906mod table_api_tests {
907 use super::*;
908
909 fn cell(
910 text: &str,
911 bbox: [f32; 4],
912 (start_row, start_col): (usize, usize),
913 (row_span, col_span): (usize, usize),
914 ) -> TableCell {
915 TableCell {
916 text: text.into(),
917 bbox: Some(bbox),
918 start_row,
919 start_col,
920 row_span,
921 col_span,
922 column_header: false,
923 row_header: false,
924 row_section: false,
925 }
926 }
927
928 fn table() -> Table {
929 Table {
930 rows: vec![
931 vec!["Year".into(), "Ducks".into()],
932 vec!["2019".into(), "120".into()],
933 ],
934 cells: Some(vec![
935 cell("Year", [0.0, 0.0, 50.0, 10.0], (0, 0), (1, 1)),
936 cell("Ducks", [50.0, 0.0, 100.0, 10.0], (0, 1), (1, 1)),
937 cell("2019", [0.0, 10.0, 50.0, 20.0], (1, 0), (1, 1)),
938 cell("120", [50.0, 10.0, 100.0, 20.0], (1, 1), (1, 1)),
939 ]),
940 ..Default::default()
941 }
942 }
943
944 /// Declarative tables derive first-class cells from the structure
945 /// overlay: continuation grids become span extents, `col_header` (or the
946 /// row-0 fallback) becomes the header role — the XLSX/DOCX/HTML merge
947 /// path into real `TableCell`s (#240).
948 #[test]
949 fn derive_cells_reads_spans_and_headers_from_structure() {
950 let t = Table {
951 rows: vec![
952 vec!["Wide".into(), "Wide".into(), "C".into()],
953 vec!["a".into(), "b".into(), "c".into()],
954 ],
955 structure: Some(TableStructure {
956 header_row: vec![true, false],
957 col_continuation: vec![vec![false, true, false], vec![false; 3]],
958 row_continuation: vec![vec![false; 3], vec![false; 3]],
959 row_header: Vec::new(),
960 col_header: Vec::new(),
961 }),
962 ..Default::default()
963 };
964 let cells = t.derive_cells();
965 assert_eq!(cells.len(), 5, "two anchors in row 0, three in row 1");
966 let wide = &cells[0];
967 assert_eq!((wide.col_span, wide.row_span), (2, 1));
968 assert!(wide.column_header, "header_row band");
969 assert!(cells.iter().skip(2).all(|c| !c.column_header));
970
971 // Without any overlay: every position 1x1, row 0 the header
972 // (docling's declarative default — the old JSON synthesis).
973 let plain = Table {
974 rows: vec![vec!["h".into()], vec!["x".into()]],
975 ..Default::default()
976 };
977 let cells = plain.derive_cells();
978 assert_eq!(cells.len(), 2);
979 assert!(cells[0].column_header && !cells[1].column_header);
980 }
981
982 /// A spanning cell updates once: the record text and every covered grid
983 /// position — a repair shows once in Markdown, not once per column.
984 #[test]
985 fn span_repair_updates_the_whole_cell() {
986 let mut t = Table {
987 rows: vec![
988 vec!["Wide".into(), "Wide".into(), "C".into()],
989 vec!["a".into(), "b".into(), "c".into()],
990 ],
991 cells: Some(vec![
992 cell("Wide", [0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 10.0], (0, 0), (1, 2)),
993 cell("C", [100.0, 0.0, 150.0, 10.0], (0, 2), (1, 1)),
994 ]),
995 ..Default::default()
996 };
997 // Update through the covered (non-anchor) position.
998 assert!(t.set_cell_text(0, 1, "Fixed"));
999 assert_eq!(
1000 t.rows[0],
1001 vec!["Fixed".to_string(), "Fixed".into(), "C".into()]
1002 );
1003 assert_eq!(t.cell_at(0, 1).unwrap().text, "Fixed");
1004 assert_eq!(t.cell_at(0, 1).unwrap().col_span, 2);
1005 }
1006
1007 /// The OCR-repair loop (#238): locate a cell by an external box (best
1008 /// IoU), replace its text, and see the fix in the export — the grid is
1009 /// the single source of truth for every serializer.
1010 #[test]
1011 fn bbox_lookup_and_repair_flow_into_exports() {
1012 let mut doc = DoclingDocument::new("t");
1013 doc.push(Node::Table(table()));
1014 assert_eq!(doc.tables().count(), 1);
1015
1016 let t = doc.tables_mut().next().unwrap();
1017 // A slightly-off OCR box still lands on the (1,1) cell.
1018 assert_eq!(t.find_cell_by_bbox([52.0, 11.0, 98.0, 19.0]), Some((1, 1)));
1019 assert_eq!(
1020 t.update_cell_by_bbox([52.0, 11.0, 98.0, 19.0], "125"),
1021 Some((1, 1))
1022 );
1023 assert_eq!(t.cell_text(1, 1), Some("125"));
1024 assert!(doc.export_to_markdown().contains("125"));
1025
1026 // No overlap → no match, nothing changed.
1027 let t = doc.tables_mut().next().unwrap();
1028 assert_eq!(t.find_cell_by_bbox([500.0, 500.0, 600.0, 600.0]), None);
1029 }
1030
1031 #[test]
1032 fn cell_accessors_bound_check_and_geometry_materializes() {
1033 let mut t = table();
1034 assert_eq!(t.cell_text(0, 0), Some("Year"));
1035 assert_eq!(t.cell_text(5, 0), None);
1036 assert!(!t.set_cell_text(0, 9, "x"), "outside the grid");
1037 assert_eq!(t.cell_bbox(1, 0), Some([0.0, 10.0, 50.0, 20.0]));
1038
1039 // A geometry-less table materializes its box grid on first set.
1040 let mut plain = Table {
1041 rows: vec![vec!["a".into(), "b".into()]],
1042 ..Default::default()
1043 };
1044 assert_eq!(plain.cell_bbox(0, 1), None);
1045 assert!(!plain.set_cell_bbox(0, 5, [0.0; 4]), "outside the grid");
1046 assert!(plain.set_cell_bbox(0, 1, [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]));
1047 assert_eq!(plain.cell_bbox(0, 1), Some([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]));
1048 assert_eq!(plain.find_cell_by_bbox([1.5, 2.5, 2.5, 3.5]), Some((0, 1)));
1049 }
1050}