pixeltable 0.2.17__py3-none-any.whl → 0.2.19__py3-none-any.whl

pixeltable/utils/documents.py

@@ -1,69 +1,72 @@
-from typing import Optional, Dict
 import dataclasses
+from typing import Optional
+
+import bs4
+import fitz  # (pymupdf)
+import puremagic
 
 import pixeltable.type_system as ts
+from pixeltable.env import Env
 
 
 @dataclasses.dataclass
 class DocumentHandle:
     format: ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat
-    bs_doc: Optional['bs4.BeautifulSoup'] = None
-    md_ast: Optional[Dict] = None
-    pdf_doc: Optional['fitz.Document'] = None
+    bs_doc: Optional[bs4.BeautifulSoup] = None
+    md_ast: Optional[dict] = None
+    pdf_doc: Optional[fitz.Document] = None
+
 
 def get_document_handle(path: str) -> Optional[DocumentHandle]:
-    # try pdf first, because a correct PDF is a binary format that
-    # would trigger encoding exceptions if oppened as utf8.
-    pdf_doc = get_pdf_handle(path)
-    if pdf_doc is not None:
-        return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.PDF, pdf_doc=pdf_doc)
-    # currently the rest of the types are text-based, so we can open them in utf8 mode once
-    try:
-        with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as file:
-            contents = file.read()
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        # not pdf, and also not valid text file
-        return None
+    doc_format = puremagic.from_file(path)
 
-    # bs4 will appear to succeed for md files as well.
-    # this will break most markdown files at the moment.
-    bs_doc = get_html_handle(contents)
-    if bs_doc is not None:
-        return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.HTML, bs_doc=bs_doc)
+    if doc_format == '.pdf':
+        pdf_doc = get_pdf_handle(path)
+        if pdf_doc is not None:
+            return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.PDF, pdf_doc=pdf_doc)
 
-    md_ast = get_markdown_handle(contents)
-    if md_ast is not None:
-        return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.MD, md_ast=md_ast)
+    if doc_format == '.html':
+        bs_doc = get_html_handle(path)
+        if bs_doc is not None:
+            return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.HTML, bs_doc=bs_doc)
+
+    if doc_format == '.md':
+        md_ast = get_markdown_handle(path)
+        if md_ast is not None:
+            return DocumentHandle(format=ts.DocumentType.DocumentFormat.MD, md_ast=md_ast)
 
     return None
 
-def get_html_handle(text: str) -> Optional['bs4.BeautifulSoup']:
-    import bs4
+
+def get_pdf_handle(path: str) -> Optional[fitz.Document]:
     try:
-        doc = bs4.BeautifulSoup(text, 'html.parser')
-        if doc.find() is None:
+        doc = fitz.open(path)
+        # check pdf (bc it will work for images)
+        if not doc.is_pdf:
             return None
+        # try to read one page
+        next(page for page in doc)
         return doc
     except Exception:
         return None
 
-def get_markdown_handle(text: str) -> Optional[Dict]:
-    import mistune
+
+def get_html_handle(path: str) -> Optional[bs4.BeautifulSoup]:
     try:
-        md_ast = mistune.create_markdown(renderer=None)
-        return md_ast(text)
+        with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as fp:
+            doc = bs4.BeautifulSoup(fp, 'html.parser')
+        return doc if doc.find() is not None else None
     except Exception:
         return None
 
-def get_pdf_handle(path : str) -> Optional['fitz.Document']:
-    import fitz  # aka pymupdf
+
+def get_markdown_handle(path: str) -> Optional[dict]:
+    Env.get().require_package('mistune', [3, 0])
+    import mistune
     try:
-        doc = fitz.open(path)
-        # check pdf (bc it will work for images)
-        if not doc.is_pdf:
-            return None
-        # try to read one page
-        next(page for page in doc)
-        return doc
+        with open(path, encoding='utf8') as file:
+            text = file.read()
+        md_ast = mistune.create_markdown(renderer=None)
+        return md_ast(text)
     except Exception:
-        return None
+        return None

pixeltable/utils/formatter.py

@@ -144,11 +144,11 @@ class Formatter:
         else:
             width = 640  # A single image: larger display
         with io.BytesIO() as buffer:
-            img.save(buffer, 'jpeg')
+            img.save(buffer, 'webp')
             img_base64 = base64.b64encode(buffer.getvalue()).decode()
             return f"""
             <div class="pxt_image" style="width:{width}px;">
-                <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,{img_base64}" width="{width}" />
+                <img src="data:image/webp;base64,{img_base64}" width="{width}" />
             </div>
             """
 

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{pixeltable-0.2.17.dist-info → pixeltable-0.2.19.dist-info}/METADATA

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: pixeltable
-Version: 0.2.17
+Version: 0.2.19
 Summary: Pixeltable: The Multimodal AI Data Plane
 Author: Pixeltable, Inc.
 Author-email: contact@pixeltable.com
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ Requires-Dist: cloudpickle (>=2.2.1,<3.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: ftfy (>=6.2.0,<7.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: jinja2 (>=3.1.3,<4.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: jmespath (>=1.0.1,<2.0.0)
-Requires-Dist: mistune (>=3.0.2,<4.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: more-itertools (>=10.2,<11.0)
-Requires-Dist: numpy (>=1.25)
+Requires-Dist: numpy (>=1.25,<2.0)
 Requires-Dist: opencv-python-headless (>=4.7.0.68,<5.0.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: pandas (>=2.0,<3.0)
 Requires-Dist: pgvector (>=0.2.1,<0.3.0)
@@ -26,45 +25,41 @@ Requires-Dist: pillow (>=9.3.0)
 Requires-Dist: pixeltable-pgserver (==0.2.7)
 Requires-Dist: psutil (>=5.9.5,<6.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: psycopg[binary] (==3.1.18)
+Requires-Dist: puremagic (>=1.20)
 Requires-Dist: pymupdf (>=1.24.1,<2.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: pyyaml (>=6.0.1,<7.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: requests (>=2.31.0,<3.0.0)
-Requires-Dist: setuptools (==69.1.1)
-Requires-Dist: sqlalchemy[mypy] (>=2.0.23,<3.0.0)
+Requires-Dist: sqlalchemy (>=2.0.23,<3.0.0)
 Requires-Dist: tenacity (>=8.2,<9.0)
 Requires-Dist: tqdm (>=4.64)
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 
 <div align="center">
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/release/pixeltable-banner.png" alt="Pixeltable" width="45%" />
-
-# Unifying Data, Models, and Orchestration for AI Products
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/source/data/pixeltable-logo-large.png" alt="Pixeltable" width="50%" />
+<br></br>
 
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-darkblue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
 ![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/pixeltable?logo=python&logoColor=white)
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-[![pytest status](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions/workflows/pytest.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions)
+![Platform Support](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-Linux%20%7C%20macOS%20%7C%20Windows-8A2BE2)
+<br>
+[![tests status](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions/workflows/pytest.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions/workflows/pytest.yml)
+[![tests status](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions/workflows/nightly.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/actions/workflows/nightly.yml)
 [![PyPI Package](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pixeltable?color=darkorange)](https://pypi.org/project/pixeltable/)
 
 [Installation](https://pixeltable.github.io/pixeltable/getting-started/) | [Documentation](https://pixeltable.readme.io/) | [API Reference](https://pixeltable.github.io/pixeltable/) | [Code Samples](https://pixeltable.readme.io/recipes) | [Examples](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/tree/release/docs/release/tutorials)
 </div>
 
-Pixeltable is a Python library that lets ML Engineers and Data Scientists focus on exploration, modeling, and app development without dealing with the customary data plumbing.
-
-### What problems does Pixeltable solve?
-
-Today’s solutions for AI app development require extensive custom coding and infrastructure plumbing. Tracking lineage and versions between and across data transformations, models, and deployment is cumbersome.
+Pixeltable is a Python library providing a declarative interface for multimodal data (text, images, audio, video). It features built-in versioning, lineage tracking, and incremental updates, enabling users to store, transform, index, and iterate on data for their ML workflows. Data transformations, model inference, and custom logic are embedded as computed columns.
 
 ## 💾 Installation
 
 ```python
 pip install pixeltable
 ```
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> Pixeltable is persistent. Unlike in-memory Python libraries such as Pandas, Pixeltable is a database. When working locally or against an hosted version of Pixeltable, use [get_table](https://pixeltable.github.io/pixeltable/api/pixeltable/#pixeltable.get_table) at any time to retrieve an existing table.
+**Pixeltable is persistent. Unlike in-memory Python libraries such as Pandas, Pixeltable is a database.**
 
 ## 💡 Getting Started
-Learn how to create tables, populate them with data, and enhance them with built-in or user-defined transformations and AI operations.
+Learn how to create tables, populate them with data, and enhance them with built-in or user-defined transformations.
 
 | Topic | Notebook | Topic | Notebook |
 |:----------|:-----------------|:-------------------------|:---------------------------------:|
@@ -91,9 +86,32 @@ v.insert({'video': prefix + p} for p in paths)
 ```
 Learn how to [work with data in Pixeltable](https://pixeltable.readme.io/docs/working-with-external-files).
 
-### Add an object detection model to your workflow
+### Object detection in images using DETR model
 ```python
-table['detections'] = huggingface.detr_for_object_detection(table.input_image, model_id='facebook/detr-resnet-50')
+import pixeltable as pxt
+from pixeltable.functions import huggingface
+
+# Create a table to store data persistently
+t = pxt.create_table('image', {'image': pxt.ImageType()})
+
+# Insert some images
+prefix = 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons'
+paths = [
+    '/1/15/Cat_August_2010-4.jpg',
+    '/e/e1/Example_of_a_Dog.jpg',
+    '/thumb/b/bf/Bird_Diversity_2013.png/300px-Bird_Diversity_2013.png'
+]
+t.insert({'image': prefix + p} for p in paths)
+
+# Add a computed column for image classification
+t['classification'] = huggingface.detr_for_object_detection(
+    (t.image), model_id='facebook/detr-resnet-50'
+    )
+
+# Retrieve the rows where cats have been identified
+t.select(animal = t.image,
+         classification = t.classification.label_text[0]) \
+.where(t.classification.label_text[0]=='cat').head()
 ```
 Learn about computed columns and object detection: [Comparing object detection models](https://pixeltable.readme.io/docs/object-detection-in-videos).
 
@@ -109,9 +127,9 @@ def draw_boxes(img: PIL.Image.Image, boxes: list[list[float]]) -> PIL.Image.Imag
 ```
 Learn more about user-defined functions: [UDFs in Pixeltable](https://pixeltable.readme.io/docs/user-defined-functions-udfs).
 
-### Automate data operations with views
+### Automate data operations with views, e.g., split documents into chunks
 ```python
-# In this example, the view is defined by iteration over the chunks of a DocumentSplitter.
+# In this example, the view is defined by iteration over the chunks of a DocumentSplitter
 chunks_table = pxt.create_view(
     'rag_demo.chunks',
     documents_table,
@@ -124,7 +142,7 @@ Learn how to leverage views to build your [RAG workflow](https://pixeltable.read
 
 ### Evaluate model performance
 ```python
-# The computation of the mAP metric can simply become a query over the evaluation output, aggregated with the mean_ap() function.
+# The computation of the mAP metric can become a query over the evaluation output
 frames_view.select(mean_ap(frames_view.eval_yolox_tiny), mean_ap(frames_view.eval_yolox_m)).show()
 ```
 Learn how to leverage Pixeltable for [Model analytics](https://pixeltable.readme.io/docs/object-detection-in-videos).
@@ -136,7 +154,7 @@ chat_table = pxt.create_table('together_demo.chat', {'input': pxt.StringType()})
 # The chat-completions API expects JSON-formatted input:
 messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': chat_table.input}]
 
-# This example shows how additional parameters from the Together API can be used in Pixeltable to customize the model behavior.
+# This example shows how additional parameters from the Together API can be used in Pixeltable
 chat_table['output'] = chat_completions(
     messages=messages,
     model='mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1',
@@ -160,12 +178,54 @@ chat_table.select(chat_table.input, chat_table.response).head()
 ```
 Learn how to interact with inference services such as [Together AI](https://pixeltable.readme.io/docs/together-ai) in Pixeltable.
 
+### Text and image similarity search on video frames with embedding indexes
+```python
+import pixeltable as pxt
+from pixeltable.functions.huggingface import clip_image, clip_text
+from pixeltable.iterators import FrameIterator
+import PIL.Image
+
+video_table = pxt.create_table('videos', {'video': pxt.VideoType()})
+
+video_table.insert([{'video': '/video.mp4'}])
+
+frames_view = pxt.create_view(
+    'frames', video_table, iterator=FrameIterator.create(video=video_table.video))
+
+@pxt.expr_udf
+def embed_image(img: PIL.Image.Image):
+    return clip_image(img, model_id='openai/clip-vit-base-patch32')
+
+@pxt.expr_udf
+def str_embed(s: str):
+    return clip_text(s, model_id='openai/clip-vit-base-patch32')
+
+# Create an index on the 'frame' column that allows text and image search
+frames_view.add_embedding_index('frame', string_embed=str_embed, image_embed=embed_image)
+
+# Now we will retrieve images based on a sample image
+sample_image = '/image.jpeg'
+sim = frames_view.frame.similarity(sample_image)
+frames_view.order_by(sim, asc=False).limit(5).select(frames_view.frame, sim=sim).collect()
+
+# Now we will retrieve images based on a string
+sample_text = 'red truck'
+sim = frames_view.frame.similarity(sample_text)
+frames_view.order_by(sim, asc=False).limit(5).select(frames_view.frame, sim=sim).collect()
+
+```
+Learn how to work with [Embedding and Vector Indexes](https://docs.pixeltable.com/docs/embedding-vector-indexes).
+
 ## ❓ FAQ
 
 ### What is Pixeltable?
 
 Pixeltable unifies data storage, versioning, and indexing with orchestration and model versioning under a declarative table interface, with transformations, model inference, and custom logic represented as computed columns.
 
+### What problems does Pixeltable solve?
+
+Today's solutions for AI app development require extensive custom coding and infrastructure plumbing. Tracking lineage and versions between and across data transformations, models, and deployments is cumbersome. Pixeltable lets ML Engineers and Data Scientists focus on exploration, modeling, and app development without dealing with the customary data plumbing.
+
 ### What does Pixeltable provide me with? Pixeltable provides:
 
 - Data storage and versioning