fix: Match handling of ingest of image only doc w/o langflow - #2308
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WalkthroughPicture extraction now emits described-picture chunks and adds one placeholder only when no other chunks exist. Standard processing rejects placeholder-only documents before embedding. Failure metadata directs image-only failures to enable OCR. ChangesImage-only document handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Image-only documents can still be incorrectly accepted and indexed when configured with a very small chunk size instead of being rejected as having no text. The change is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a regression test for this edge case. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| "type": "picture", | ||
| "picture_index": p_idx, | ||
| "text": "\n".join(descriptions), | ||
| "text": "\n".join(descriptions) if descriptions else "<!-- image -->", |
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(1a) [Normal] Placeholder emitted per description-less picture inflates the index with duplicate <!-- image --> chunks/embeddings
Problem
- Before this PR (
#2172),extract_relevant()deliberately skipped pictures with no/empty description "so no blank chunks are created". This PR reverses that for all documents, not just image-only ones. - Every picture without a VLM description now yields a standalone chunk whose text is the literal
<!-- image -->.- In
src/models/processors.py, these chunks are non-empty and survive both whitespace filters (lines ~532 and ~553), so each one is embedded (patched_embedding_client.embeddings.create) and indexed as its own OpenSearch document.
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- For an image-heavy document with picture descriptions disabled (a scanned catalog, a slide deck exported to PDF, etc.) this produces N near-identical
<!-- image -->chunks / embeddings:- Wasted embedding API calls and vector storage.
- Retrieval pollution — many identical zero-information chunks can crowd out useful hits in the results window (the same failure mode CLAUDE.md calls out for
utils/opensearch_filenames.py: "a many-chunk document crowds others out of the hits window").
- This also diverges from the Langflow path it claims to match: Langflow's
export_to_markdownemits<!-- image -->inline inside the page's text chunk, not as a separate embedded chunk per image.
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- CodeRabbit flagged no actionable comments and rated merge risk minimal; it did not consider the fan-out / retrieval-noise effect on multi-image documents.
src/services/document_service.py:212-220also consumes these chunks:pages = len(slim_doc["chunks"])and each chunk is rendered asPage N:\n<!-- image -->into extracted context, inflating both the page count and the context payload.
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src/utils/document_processing.py:150-157src/models/processors.py:529-556src/services/document_service.py:210-221
Potential Solution
- Only rescue genuinely empty documents: emit the placeholder only when the document would otherwise yield zero chunks (e.g. after building
chunks, ifnot chunksanddoc_dict.get("pictures"), append a single<!-- image -->chunk). - This preserves the fix's intent (image-only docs no longer error) without adding placeholder chunks to text documents that already index fine.
Alternative Solutions
- Emit at most one
<!-- image -->chunk per document regardless of picture count (dedupe), keeping the "document is non-empty" signal while avoiding the N-duplicate blow-up. - Keep per-picture placeholders but mark them non-embeddable / exclude
type == "picture"chunks with placeholder text from the embedding batch while still writing them to the index for provenance (more invasive).
| "type": "picture", | ||
| "picture_index": p_idx, | ||
| "text": "\n".join(descriptions), | ||
| "text": "\n".join(descriptions) if descriptions else "<!-- image -->", |
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(1b) [Normal] Silent "success" with non-searchable content masks the actionable "enable OCR" guidance
Problem
- Previously, an image file (
.png/.jpeg/…) or image-only PDF ingested with both OCR and picture descriptions disabled failed with"No text content could be extracted from document", whichservices/task_service.py:1016-1027turns into the actionable message "Enable OCR in Settings > Knowledge Base and retry ingestion." - After this PR the same upload "succeeds": a
<!-- image -->placeholder chunk is produced, embeddings are non-empty, and theNo embeddings generatedguard atsrc/models/processors.py:567-573no longer trips. - Net effect: the user believes the document is ingested and searchable, but the index contains only an HTML-comment placeholder with zero retrievable content, and the "turn on OCR" hint is never surfaced.
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src/models/processors.py:567-573src/services/task_service.py:1011-1027src/utils/document_processing.py:150-157
Potential Solution
- Combine with (1a): if the only chunks produced are
<!-- image -->placeholders (no text/table chunks and no real picture descriptions), keep returning the"No text content could be extracted from document"error so the OCR tip still fires — i.e. the placeholder should unblock mixed documents, not make pure-image uploads report false success. - If product intent really is "pure-image upload should succeed silently to match Langflow", document that decision in the code comment and confirm the Langflow-on path behaves identically for a zero-text image (it likewise yields only
<!-- image -->).
Alternative Solutions
- Leave behavior as-is but have the ingest result flag documents whose chunks are all placeholders (e.g. a
warningon the task) so the UI can still prompt the user to enable OCR.
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| def extract_relevant(doc_dict: dict) -> dict: | ||
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(1c) [Minor] extract_relevant() docstring not updated for picture / placeholder behavior
Problem
- The docstring (
src/utils/document_processing.py:79-86) still only describestextsandtableshandling; it never mentions the picture-annotation pass, and now omits the new placeholder semantics. - CodeRabbit's pre-merge "Docstring Coverage" check is already at 40% (threshold 80%) for functions touched by this diff.
Potential Solution
- Add a bullet: "Emits one
picturechunk per picture — joineddescriptionannotations when present, otherwise a<!-- image -->placeholder."
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In `@src/models/processors.py`:
- Around line 538-540: Move the placeholder-only document guard around the
visible slim_doc chunks check to run after empty-text filtering and before
resplit_chunks_character_windows, so IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER content is rejected
before it can be fragmented by small chunk sizes. Preserve the existing behavior
for non-placeholder documents, and add a regression case using chunk_size=1 that
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject placeholder-only documents before character re-splitting.
Line 538 runs after resplit_chunks_character_windows. If a caller sets chunk_size below 14, <!-- image --> splits into fragments. The all() check then evaluates false, and the pipeline embeds the fragments and returns an indexed result.
Run this guard after empty-text filtering and before character re-splitting. Add a regression case with chunk_size=1 and assert that the embedding client is not awaited.
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In `@src/models/processors.py` around lines 538 - 540, Move the placeholder-only
document guard around the visible slim_doc chunks check to run after empty-text
filtering and before resplit_chunks_character_windows, so IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER
content is rejected before it can be fragmented by small chunk sizes. Preserve
the existing behavior for non-placeholder documents, and add a regression case
using chunk_size=1 that verifies the embedding client is not awaited.
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Image only pdf upload works as expected
Upload fails with The file appears corrupted or invalid and cannot be processed. Upload a valid file.
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Disable Langflow Ingestionis off it processes the file w/ langflow and returns an empty<!-- image -->tag this PR matches this expected behaviorSummary by CodeRabbit
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