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{visual_parser-2.2.3/visual_parser.egg-info → visual_parser-2.2.5}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: visual-parser
-Version: 2.2.3
+Version: 2.2.5
 Summary: Standalone Visual-RAG PDF & Image Parser - text extraction and Vision-LLM figure/image descriptions to JSONL
 Author: Zavier N. Ndum
 Author-email: zavier.ndum@tamu.edu
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
 Requires-Python: >=3.10
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 License-File: LICENSE
-Requires-Dist: PyMuPDF>=1.23.0
+Requires-Dist: pypdfium2>=5.0.0
+Requires-Dist: pypdf>=4.0.0
+Requires-Dist: rapidfuzz>=3.0.0
 Requires-Dist: Pillow>=10.0.0
 Requires-Dist: torch>=2.1.0
 Requires-Dist: transformers>=4.38.0
@@ -34,7 +36,6 @@ Requires-Dist: requests>=2.31.0
 Requires-Dist: python-dotenv>=1.0.0
 Requires-Dist: tqdm>=4.66.0
 Requires-Dist: nltk>=3.8
-Requires-Dist: python-Levenshtein>=0.20
 Provides-Extra: ocr
 Requires-Dist: pytesseract>=0.3.10; extra == "ocr"
 Provides-Extra: dev
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 
 # visual-parser (Standalone Visual-RAG PDF & Image Ingestion)
 
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/visual-parser.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/visual-parser/)
 ![Python 3.10+](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.10%2B-brightgreen.svg)
 ![PyTorch](https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-2.1%2B-ee4c2c.svg)
 ![LangChain](https://img.shields.io/badge/LangChain-0.1%2B-1C3C3C.svg)
@@ -52,8 +54,10 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 
 `visual-parser` converts PDFs (and standalone images alongside them) into a multi-modal JSONL knowledge base (text chunks, figure descriptions, standalone image descriptions, metadata). It was extracted from [RADIANT-LLM](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/RADIANT_LLM) as a standalone PDF-and-image ingestion tool, independent of any chatbot.
 
+**Install from PyPI:** `pip install visual-parser` — [pypi.org/project/visual-parser](https://pypi.org/project/visual-parser/).
+
 1) Run `visual-parser` on a directory of curated PDFs and/or standalone images to generate JSONL KB files.
-2) Point any downstream RAG system at the generated KB — RADIANT-LLM, AutoSAM, and AutoFLUKA all consume the identical JSONL/registry format, so the same KB works with any of them without re-parsing.
+2) Point any downstream RAG system at the generated KB — [RADIANT-LLM](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/RADIANT_LLM), [AutoSAM](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/AutoSAM), and [AutoFLUKA](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/AutoFLUKA) all consume the identical JSONL/registry format, so the same KB works with any of them without re-parsing.
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
@@ -67,6 +71,7 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 - [Local Ollama vision provider](#local-ollama-vision-provider)
 - [Citation](#citation)
 - [License](#license)
+- [Third-party licences](#third-party-licences)
 
 ## Outputs (JSONL KB)
 
@@ -78,7 +83,11 @@ By default, the pipeline writes:
 
 Alongside the KB, the pipeline also writes bookkeeping files: `04_processed_pdfs.txt` / `parsed_images.txt` (track which PDFs/images have already been processed, so re-runs skip them unless `--rebuild` or `--redo NAME`) and `05_pipeline.log` (run log at the verbosity set by `--log-level`, default `ERROR`).
 
-> **Breaking change in 2.2.3:** the standalone-image KB file was renamed from `image_descriptions.jsonl` to `image_descriptions_kb.jsonl` (matching the `NN_name_kb.jsonl` convention used by the other three KB files). Upgrading from an older version does **not** migrate existing data automatically — the resume check only looks at the new filename, so already-described images in an old `image_descriptions.jsonl` would otherwise appear "new" again and get re-described. If you have existing data, rename the file yourself before re-running: `image_descriptions.jsonl` → `image_descriptions_kb.jsonl`.
+Every `02_visuals_kb.jsonl` and `image_descriptions_kb.jsonl` row records the `vision_provider` and `vision_model` that produced it, and every `03_metadata_kb.jsonl` row carries a `parser` block: the `visual_parser` version, `parsed_at`, `text_engine`, `text_fallback`, the resolved `vision_model`, and the run's chunking/context settings. This records which engine and model actually produced a document's rows, since the configured settings aren't always what ran (Nougat can fail and fall back to lightweight; a local Ollama model can be auto-selected at run time). Rows written by older versions lack these fields.
+
+Figure description also guards against mixed models: if a PDF already has figures described under a different `vision_model` than the current run's, its remaining pages are skipped entirely (not partially re-described under the new model) and its basename is reported back. Reprocess it with `--redo NAME` to redescribe it consistently under the new model.
+
+Release notes and upgrade notes are in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
 
 ## API Keys (.env)
 
@@ -135,10 +144,9 @@ Prebuilt images are on **[zev94/radiant-llm](https://hub.docker.com/r/zev94/radi
 | Tag | Description |
 |-----|-------------|
 | `visual-parser-latest` | Always latest build (rolling) |
-| `visual-parser-2.1.0` | Pinned release |
-| `visual-parser-2.0` | Pinned release |
-| `visual-parser-1.0.2` | Legacy |
-| `visual-parser-1.0` | Legacy — v1.0.0, stale |
+| `visual-parser-2.2.5` | Latest pinned release, for reproducible runs |
+
+Tags for earlier versions (`visual-parser-2.2.0` and older) are no longer maintained. They were built from releases that depended on PyMuPDF and python-Levenshtein, which 2.2.5 replaced (see [Third-party licences](#third-party-licences)).
 
 #### Install Docker
 
@@ -202,7 +210,7 @@ docker run --rm --gpus all --env-file .env `
 #### Offline install (legacy .tar)
 
 ```powershell
-docker load -i .\visual-parser_2.1.0.tar
+docker load -i .\visual-parser_<version>.tar
 docker images   # use the tag printed by Docker
 ```
 
@@ -276,7 +284,7 @@ Vision LLM:
 - `--vision-context-pages 0` — include N adjacent pages (before and after) as context in each figure-description call, to help with figures/captions that span a page break. 0 (default) is today's single-page behavior; more context pages means more tokens per call
 
 Performance / misc:
-- `--max-workers 4`
+- `--max-workers 4` (PDFs are processed on a thread pool. The PDF library itself is not thread-safe, so page rendering and text reading are serialised behind one lock; extra workers still overlap Nougat inference and the vision-model calls)
 - `--rebuild` (reprocess everything; ignore `04_processed_pdfs.txt`/`parsed_images.txt`)
 - `--redo NAME` (surgically clear one PDF/image's rows from every KB file + both registries, so it's reprocessed fresh on the next run — a targeted alternative to `--rebuild`)
 - `--skip-text` (skip text extraction and resume only the vision steps; use after an interrupted run)
@@ -335,3 +343,13 @@ Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22755
 Copyright 2026 Zavier N. Ndum
 
 This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, the same license as its parent project, [RADIANT-LLM](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/RADIANT_LLM). See the [LICENSE](https://github.com/SmartLabNuclear/RADIANT_LLM/blob/main/LICENSE) file in the RADIANT_LLM repository, or the `LICENSE` file bundled with this package, for the full license text.
+
+## Third-party licences
+
+**PDF and string-matching libraries.** From 2.2.5, visual-parser uses only permissively licensed libraries for these jobs: [pypdfium2](https://github.com/pypdfium2-team/pypdfium2) (Apache-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause, wrapping Google's PDFium; the licences of PDFium and its dependencies ship in the wheel), [pypdf](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf) (BSD-3-Clause) and [RapidFuzz](https://github.com/rapidfuzz/RapidFuzz) (MIT). Versions up to 2.2.4 used PyMuPDF (AGPL-3.0) and python-Levenshtein (GPL-2.0-or-later). The image built from the 2.2.5 `Dockerfile` starts from a clean Python base and contains neither. Images published to Docker Hub for earlier versions were built from releases that depended on them.
+
+**Reproducing earlier results.** 2.2.5 renders pages and reads the text layer with a different PDF engine, so page images, Nougat output, lightweight chunks and their `chunk_id`s can differ slightly from 2.2.4 (see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)). Rows already in a knowledge base are not changed; a document parsed again gets the new output. To reproduce results made with 2.2.4 or earlier, pin `pip install visual-parser==2.2.4`. Each `03_metadata_kb.jsonl` row records its engine in `parser.pdf_engine`; rows without that field were made with PyMuPDF.
+
+**Nougat model weights.** The weights are downloaded from Hugging Face, not distributed under visual-parser's Apache-2.0 licence, and the Docker image includes the default `facebook/nougat-small`. Hugging Face lists `nougat-small` as CC-BY-4.0 and `nougat-base` (`--nougat-model facebook/nougat-base`) as CC-BY-NC-4.0, which is non-commercial only. The upstream [Nougat repository](https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat#license) says its "model weights are licensed under CC-BY-NC". Check the terms before any commercial use of the output.
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+**NVIDIA CUDA libraries.** The Docker image and `pip install torch --index-url …/cu130` bring in NVIDIA's CUDA runtime libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, NCCL and others) under NVIDIA's own licences. They are not part of visual-parser. A CPU-only torch needs none of them.