Because we don't really use ruffus checkpoint feature, putting the
database in a permanent location does not help anything, but does cause
large database files and problems if the .ruffus_history.sqlite wanted
to be in a writable location.
qpdf won so hard it wasn't funny, even though it must be called once
per page to do the job. Perhaps Ghostscript interprets it as a call to
render the page?
time bash qpdf-test.fish ../tests/resources/multipage.pdf
0.07 real 0.02 user 0.03 sys
time gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER -o '%06d.pdf' ../tests/resources/multipage.pdf
5.12 real 5.06 user 0.04 sys
Tess 3.03's has various quality problems like wrong DPI that are fixed
in Tess 3.04. Idea here is to introduce an option to let OCRmyPDF
select the rendering backend based on the options and system.
However, we're not ready for tesseract as the main renderer.
Setting pdf-renderer to tesseract does not pass all test cases, mainly
the one where --tesseract-timeout is triggered, and some others.
It appears that extractText() does not find all text. At a glance it
may be that Tesseract's PDF renderer generates a font and uses glyphs
that map to different Unicode code points that PyPDF expects, so it
discards the content and finds nothing. As a proxy in lieu of better
PDF parsing, assume that a "GlyphLessFont" means there is a text there.
I had previously found it does not work to check for the presence of a
font on page. Some PDF generators create a font resource entry even if
the font is never called for.
Someone reported a bug where the .png input to unpaper ended up being
type 'P' (palette) for some reason, which was not supported in unpaper.
Not sure how it happened, but seemed easier to fix by explicitly
supporting. Here we use png256 if it would capture all colors in the
input file. It's up to tesseract/reportlab to make use of the palette
PNG when rendering.
fileinput is supposed to save time in these cases but it's not capable
of doing both in-place rewrites and working with a non-ascii encoding.
This was not noticed until characters outside of ASCII were picked up
by tesseract and saved in a HOCR file. Rework some surrounding code as
well and add multilingual test cases.
Far from being fluffy or friendly, Pillow silently allows installation
of itself without support for major image types. Reportlab calls for
pillow 2.4.0. On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS this will trigger an upgrade of
pillow that will be built without JPEG or ZLIB so it is effectively
neutered, and unfortunately Pillow will not detect this situation at
install time and guide users to a resolution. Instead, you see nasty
stack traces.
So add a run-time check to ensure that Pillow is sane and capable of JPEG
and PNG support since both may be used internally.
JHOVE is not an effective PDF/A validator, as detailed in this article:
http://www.pdfa.org/2014/12/ensuring-long-term-access-pdf-validation-with-jhove/
In short, it's buggy. Out of 670 invalid PDF/A files in a test suite,
it only flagged 5. It only looks for certain problems that Ghostscript
generated PDFs are unlikely to have. So use qpdf as a final check for
general ill-formed PDF problems since it is quite reliable.
JHOVE 1 is no longer maintained. There's a JHOVE 2 but it has no PDF
support. I also don't know if it's appropriate to bundle JHOVE, with an
LGPL, under this project and its current license.
Removing a dependency on Java is a huge win. A world with less Java is
a world with less AbstractFactoryConstructorInterfaces.
ruffus swallows the return code if the process of handling an exception
we hit an error in ruffus' own code, which can happen. So pick through
its error stack and find out if there's an interesting return code in
there. Had to use eval() of all things.
Also suppress the stack trace for normal error conditions that don't
need one.
James R. Barlow
Shem Pasamba