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docling_pdf/
ocr.rs

1//! OCR for scanned pages, via the PP-OCRv3 recognition model (CRNN/SVTR) run
2//! with `ort`. The layout model already locates text regions on the page image
3//! (it works without a text layer), so OCR only needs *recognition*: each text
4//! region is cropped, split into lines by horizontal projection, and each line
5//! is recognised and decoded with CTC — producing [`TextCell`]s the normal
6//! layout assembly then consumes. This avoids a separate text-detection model.
7
8use image::RgbImage;
9use ort::session::Session;
10use ort::value::Tensor;
11
12use crate::layout::Region;
13// The ONNX-free half (line prep, batching, CTC decode) lives in `ocr_prep`
14// so the wasm build shares it verbatim (#79 phase 2).
15use crate::ocr_prep::{
16    batch_input, decode_row, dict_chars, prep_region_lines, width_batches, PrepLine, REC_HEIGHT,
17};
18use crate::pdfium_backend::TextCell;
19
20pub struct OcrModel {
21    rec: Session,
22    /// CTC classes: index 0 = blank, 1..=6623 = dictionary, 6624 = space.
23    chars: Vec<String>,
24}
25
26/// OCR recognition language: which PP-OCRv3 model + dictionary pair runs.
27///
28/// The default is **English** (`models/ocr_rec_en.onnx` + `models/en_dict.txt`):
29/// the multilingual `ch_` model reads Latin scripts with badly degraded word
30/// spacing (glued words on ordinary English scans), which is the common
31/// real-world case. `Ch` selects the `ch_` pair (`models/ocr_rec.onnx` +
32/// `models/ppocr_keys_v1.txt`) — that is what upstream docling conformance is
33/// measured with, and `scripts/conformance/pdf_*.sh` pin it explicitly (by
34/// path, which wins over this selector).
35#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
36pub enum OcrLang {
37    /// en_PP-OCRv3 — English-only, proper Latin word spacing.
38    #[default]
39    En,
40    /// ch_PP-OCRv3 — multilingual; the docling-conformance model.
41    Ch,
42}
43
44impl OcrLang {
45    /// Parse a user-supplied language id. `None` for anything but `en`/`ch`
46    /// (trimmed, case-insensitive) — callers surface their own error/warning.
47    pub fn parse(s: &str) -> Option<Self> {
48        match s.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
49            "en" => Some(Self::En),
50            "ch" => Some(Self::Ch),
51            _ => None,
52        }
53    }
54
55    /// The process-level choice from `DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG` (empty/unset → the
56    /// English default; unknown values warn and use English).
57    pub fn from_env() -> Self {
58        let raw = std::env::var("DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG").unwrap_or_default();
59        if raw.trim().is_empty() {
60            return Self::default();
61        }
62        Self::parse(&raw).unwrap_or_else(|| {
63            eprintln!("docling-pdf: DOCLING_RS_OCR_LANG={raw:?} is not en|ch; using en");
64            Self::default()
65        })
66    }
67}
68
69/// Resolve the recognition model + dictionary pair for `lang`. An English
70/// default that isn't on disk (older model checkouts) degrades to the `ch_`
71/// pair with a warning rather than failing — the usual missing-optional-asset
72/// convention. Explicit `DOCLING_OCR_REC_ONNX` / `DOCLING_OCR_DICT` paths win
73/// over all of this; they are a pair, so set both together.
74pub(crate) fn resolve_rec_pair(lang: OcrLang) -> (String, String) {
75    const CH: (&str, &str) = ("models/ocr_rec.onnx", "models/ppocr_keys_v1.txt");
76    const EN: (&str, &str) = ("models/ocr_rec_en.onnx", "models/en_dict.txt");
77    let want_ch = lang == OcrLang::Ch;
78    let pick = if want_ch { CH } else { EN };
79    let (mut rec, mut dict) = (crate::resolve_asset(pick.0), crate::resolve_asset(pick.1));
80    if !want_ch && (!std::path::Path::new(&rec).exists() || !std::path::Path::new(&dict).exists()) {
81        let (ch_rec, ch_dict) = (crate::resolve_asset(CH.0), crate::resolve_asset(CH.1));
82        if std::path::Path::new(&ch_rec).exists() && std::path::Path::new(&ch_dict).exists() {
83            eprintln!(
84                "docling-pdf: English OCR model not found ({rec}); falling back to the \
85                 multilingual ch_ model — expect weak Latin word spacing. Fetch it with \
86                 scripts/install/download_dependencies.sh"
87            );
88            (rec, dict) = (ch_rec, ch_dict);
89        }
90    }
91    (
92        std::env::var("DOCLING_OCR_REC_ONNX").unwrap_or(rec),
93        std::env::var("DOCLING_OCR_DICT").unwrap_or(dict),
94    )
95}
96
97impl OcrModel {
98    /// Load the recognition model and its character dictionary for `lang` —
99    /// see [`resolve_rec_pair`] for the selection rules (explicit
100    /// `DOCLING_OCR_REC_ONNX`/`DOCLING_OCR_DICT` paths win).
101    pub fn load(lang: OcrLang) -> Result<Self, String> {
102        let (rec_path, dict_path) = resolve_rec_pair(lang);
103        // Single-threaded: ORT's multi-threaded float-reduction order varies
104        // across runs, which flips the CTC argmax on low-confidence characters
105        // (e.g. noisy faxes) and makes the snapshot output non-deterministic. The
106        // recognition inputs are tiny per-line crops, so the throughput cost is
107        // negligible.
108        let builder = Session::builder()
109            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: builder: {e}"))?
110            .with_intra_threads(1)
111            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: intra_threads: {e}"))?;
112        let rec = crate::ep::apply(builder)
113            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: {e}"))?
114            .commit_from_file(&rec_path)
115            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: load {rec_path}: {e}"))?;
116        let dict = std::fs::read_to_string(&dict_path)
117            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: read dict {dict_path}: {e}"))?;
118        Ok(Self {
119            rec,
120            chars: dict_chars(&dict),
121        })
122    }
123
124    /// Recognise a batch of prepared *same-width* lines in one session run.
125    ///
126    /// Only equal widths ever share a run: same-width batching is
127    /// bit-identical to one-at-a-time recognition (each sample keeps its own
128    /// data and per-sample kernel reduction order — verified empirically on
129    /// the scanned corpus), whereas width-padding leaks into the real
130    /// timesteps through the model's global-attention blocks and measurably
131    /// changes low-confidence characters.
132    fn recognize_batch(
133        &mut self,
134        w: usize,
135        chunk: &[usize],
136        lines: &[PrepLine],
137    ) -> Result<Vec<String>, String> {
138        let n = chunk.len();
139        let data = batch_input(w, chunk, lines);
140        let input = Tensor::from_array(([n, 3, REC_HEIGHT as usize, w], data))
141            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: input tensor: {e}"))?;
142        let outputs = self
143            .rec
144            .run(ort::inputs!["x" => input])
145            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: rec inference: {e}"))?;
146        let (shape, probs) = outputs[0]
147            .try_extract_tensor::<f32>()
148            .map_err(|e| format!("ocr: extract rec: {e}"))?;
149        let t_len = shape[1] as usize;
150        let nc = shape[2] as usize;
151        Ok((0..n)
152            .map(|i| {
153                decode_row(
154                    &self.chars,
155                    &probs[i * t_len * nc..(i + 1) * t_len * nc],
156                    nc,
157                )
158            })
159            .collect())
160    }
161
162    /// OCR a page: produce text cells (page points) for every line found inside
163    /// the text regions. `scale` is image-px per page-point.
164    pub fn ocr_page(
165        &mut self,
166        img: &RgbImage,
167        regions: &[Region],
168        scale: f32,
169    ) -> Result<Vec<TextCell>, String> {
170        // Gather every line crop on the page first (shared with the browser
171        // path), so equal-width lines can share a recognition run regardless
172        // of which region they came from.
173        let (bboxes, lines) = prep_region_lines(img, regions, scale);
174
175        // Deterministic width-batching (shared with the wasm path).
176        let mut texts = vec![String::new(); lines.len()];
177        for (w, chunk) in width_batches(&lines) {
178            for (&i, text) in chunk.iter().zip(self.recognize_batch(w, &chunk, &lines)?) {
179                texts[i] = text;
180            }
181        }
182
183        // Emit cells in page order, exactly as the sequential walk did.
184        let mut cells = Vec::new();
185        for ((l, t, r, b), text) in bboxes.into_iter().zip(texts) {
186            let text = text.trim().to_string();
187            if text.is_empty() {
188                continue;
189            }
190            cells.push(TextCell { text, l, t, r, b });
191        }
192        Ok(cells)
193    }
194}