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perf(local): scans and photos read by OCR alone before Docling: RapidOCR, Vision on a Mac - #2295
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RapidOCR, the OCR inside Docling, reads a scanned page without Docling's layout model and TableFormer, and Apple's Vision does on a Mac. On 499 real pages (forms, receipts, DocVQA scans, books, court and archive scans) both found more of the page than Docling did, and RapidOCR took about 2 s and 8 CPU-s a page where Docling took 4.9 s and 39. Docling still reads a page whose OCR came out garbled, through the splice a mixed PDF's flagged pages take. SURFSENSE_LOCAL_SCAN_OCR=off reads every scan with Docling as before.
…rns, resume, figures on ask Renders close on the ingest thread whatever stops a reading; pages and a sideways page's turns share one cap; a turn replaces a page only when it reads as text, and lines standing on end count as sideways; a cover keeps its own title over OCR's scraps; blank pages alone send the file to Docling; OCR's pages are kept while Docling's part of the file gives the queue up; a scan's figures wait to be asked; no process-wide onnxruntime patch.
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🟠 Major · Make OCR yield through the existing queue turn. · ocr_first.py:141-152
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftMake OCR yield through the existing queue turn.
ocr_reading()creates areading_turn(), but_ocr()only callsturn.check_cancelled()every eight pages. It never callsturn.give_way(). A long scan can therefore hold the sole ingest worker past the 60-second queue-turn limit and delay waiting uploads.Add a resumable OCR checkpoint at this boundary before calling
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…eading does Every 8 pages, once the reading has run its minute and an upload or note waits at its priority, OCR keeps the pages read so far in ocr/pages.json and gives way; the run that resumes reads only the pages left. It gives way only with the pages on disk, and never after its last page. A waiting source with ocr/ counts as a reading that gave way itself, so two long scans do not take turns. ocr/ goes with a cancel or a failure, in OCR's part or in Docling's after it, when Docling takes the file over, and when a cancel lands while it waits in the queue, so a retried source is never taken for one that gave way.
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Summary
Scanned PDFs and uploaded images are now read by OCR alone before Docling is asked: RapidOCR, the OCR Docling already runs inside, without Docling's layout model and TableFormer, on Windows and Linux; Apple's Vision on a Mac. Docling reads only a page whose OCR came out garbled, through the page splice mixed PDFs already use. On 499 real pages, OCR alone found more of each page than Docling did, gave better answers, and took a fraction of the time.
ADR: 0062. Docs: documents.md, Scans and photos.
Why not Windows' own OCR
The plan was to test Windows.Media.Ocr first. It is fast (0.13-0.24 s a page) and works frozen, but on real business documents it found far less than Docling: 0.61 of a form's words against 0.72, 0.43 of a receipt photo's against 0.79, 0.40 of numbers against 0.59. It writes tables column by column, and nothing in its output told its good pages from its bad ones. It is not in this PR.
The corpus (real files only)
Public datasets with human ground truth, downloaded to a scratch folder (nothing committed):
Accuracy, same pages, same scorer
Answer quality (Haiku 5.5, thinking off, each page's whole text in context; about $1.7 of the approved $3):
Docling's layout step keeps only the text of the regions it classes: it dropped page numbers and running headers outright (0.04 of the book scans' numbers, against 0.93), and its table regions lost text RapidOCR's rows kept. Routing table pages to Docling made answers worse (0.88 to 0.81 of DocVQA answers present), so tables stay with OCR.
Speed
Ryzen 7 5800X, Windows 11, 499 pages, one run at a time:
End to end, through the upload route and a real
worker.py ingestprocess, one upload per row, Docling arm withSURFSENSE_LOCAL_SCAN_OCR=off:A 25-page court filing was ready 47 s after upload, against 614 s while Docling's long readings gave way to each other. RapidOCR reads about 2 s a page on this machine, so scans are ready in seconds a page, not in seconds; Windows' own OCR was ten times as fast but read too little.
Linux (WSL Ubuntu 24.04 on the same machine): the same 100 pages in 174 s and 684 CPU-s, against 209 s and 824 on Windows, with byte-identical text.
What changed
worker/ingestion/scan_ocr/: the readers (RapidOCR, Vision), page rendering, reading order (rows left to right, prose columns one after another), the page verdict, sideways re-reads, the shared page cap, image reading, and--check-scan-ocr.worker/ingestion/pdf_reading/ocr_first.py(planner) andocr_kept.py(OCR's pages kept while Docling's part gives the queue up);route.pycalls OCR-first before the Docling page splice.parsing.py: an image upload goes to OCR first.ocr/pages.jsonand gives way; the run that resumes reads only the pages left. It gives way only with the pages on disk. A waiting source withocr/counts as a reading that gave way itself (waiting_work.py), so two long scans do not take turns, and a cancel after giving way dropsocr/as it dropsdocling/(ended_in_queue.py).pyproject.toml/uv.lock:pyobjc-framework-Visionand-Quartzon macOS only. Linux and Windows add nothing: RapidOCR, onnxruntime and the models already ship for Docling.bundling/worker.spec: PyObjC hidden imports on macOS (notcollect_all, which would ship 23 MB of .dSYM bundles).release-local.yml:worker --check-scan-ocrin the frozen worker on every system.pyobjc-core,-CoreML,-Vision12.2.2 ship no licence file (MIT; Cocoa and Quartz carry the text).Decisions to confirm
SURFSENSE_LOCAL_SCAN_OCR=auto);rapidocrforces RapidOCR on a Mac,offrestores Docling for every scan.Known gaps
How it was tested
pytest -m unit: 4,756 passed (2 symlink tests intest_gate.pyneed a Windows privilege and fail the same on plain dev).tests/integration/worker: 212 passed (Vision's 2 skip off a Mac). New:test_scan_ocr.py(35),test_ocr_first.py(12, giving way, resuming, no taking turns, a cancel droppingocr/),test_rapidocr_engine.py(the real engine reads a rendered page and turns a sideways one upright),test_vision_engine.py(macOS CI).ruff check/ruff format; notices tests 31/31.publish=never): installers built on all three systems, andworker --check-scan-ocrin each frozen worker read the rendered line exactly: RapidOCR on Windows and Linux, RapidOCR and Vision in the signed, notarised macOS build.ocr/left by a cancel in Docling's part would make a retried source look like a reading that gave way) is fixed and tested.Summary by CodeRabbit