pdftract/crates/pdftract-core
jedarden b0c103b44f feat(pdftract-5boxq): implement audit-log FILE flag with NDJSON writer + middleware
Implements the --audit-log FILE flag on serve, mcp --bind, and inspect subcommands.
Emits per-request NDJSON audit lines with ts, client_ip, tool, fingerprint, duration_ms,
status, and diagnostics fields. The AuditLogWriter wraps a BufWriter<File> behind a Mutex
and flushes after each line for crash safety.

Core changes:
- Added pdftract-core/src/audit.rs with AuditRecord schema and AuditLogWriter
- Added chrono dependency to pdftract-core/Cargo.toml for timestamp generation
- Added crates/pdftract-cli/src/middleware/audit.rs with axum middleware
- Integrated AuditState into ServeState, McpServerState, and InspectorState
- Added --audit-log flag to Serve, Mcp, and InspectArgs CLI structures
- Stdio MCP mode: audit goes to stderr (not stdout, which is JSON-RPC)

Acceptance criteria:
- pdftract serve --audit-log /var/log/pdftract.ndjson → per-request NDJSON lines appear
- Each line is single-line valid JSON (no embedded newlines in values)
- client_ip captured from X-Real-IP or X-Forwarded-For header
- Stdio MCP audit goes to stderr (with --audit-log /dev/stderr or implicitly)
- Concurrent requests: writes don't interleave (Mutex ensures atomic line writes)
- Crash mid-request: log line either fully present or fully absent (BufWriter flushes after each write)

Closes: pdftract-5boxq
2026-05-25 05:14:06 -04:00
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benches feat(pdftract-9wevc): implement 20k English wordlist for readability scoring 2026-05-24 09:29:13 -04:00
build feat(pdftract-9wevc): implement 20k English wordlist for readability scoring 2026-05-24 09:29:13 -04:00
examples feat(pdftract-3s2i): implement Phase 5.5.2 validation filter 2026-05-24 04:57:17 -04:00
proptest-regressions/parser/lexer feat(pdftract-1jjn): implement PDF numeric literal lexer with full edge case support 2026-05-23 23:17:04 -04:00
src feat(pdftract-5boxq): implement audit-log FILE flag with NDJSON writer + middleware 2026-05-25 05:14:06 -04:00
tests feat(pdftract-4exg): implement classifier corpus test infrastructure 2026-05-25 04:06:44 -04:00
__test__.pdf feat(pdftract-15pz8): implement multi-process safe cache operations 2026-05-23 05:31:11 -04:00
build.rs feat(pdftract-9wevc): implement 20k English wordlist for readability scoring 2026-05-24 09:29:13 -04:00
Cargo.toml feat(pdftract-5boxq): implement audit-log FILE flag with NDJSON writer + middleware 2026-05-25 05:14:06 -04:00
pdftract-core.cdx.json feat(pdftract-67tm8): implement MCP stdio transport with integration tests 2026-05-23 00:16:42 -04:00
README.md docs(pdftract-49f8): establish Cargo.lock policy and documentation 2026-05-20 18:13:14 -04:00

pdftract-core

The core Rust library for PDF text extraction. This crate provides the parsing, layout analysis, font encoding recovery, and text extraction primitives used by the CLI (pdftract-cli) and Python bindings (pdftract-py).

Cargo.lock Policy

This workspace checks in Cargo.lock at the repository root. This is unconventional for library crates—the Cargo Book historically suggested that only binary crates should check in lockfiles, allowing library consumers to resolve their own dependency versions.

pdftract departs from this convention for release reproducibility:

  1. SLSA Level 3 provenance requires that every milestone tag produces byte-identical artifacts across builds. Without a checked-in lockfile, two runs of cargo build on the same commit can resolve different transitive dependency versions, producing different binary hashes.

  2. Multi-output artifacts—this workspace produces Rust crates (pdftract-core, pdftract-cli), Python wheels (pdftract-py), and Docker images. All must be built from the same dependency tree.

  3. Supply-chain security—the lockfile pins checksums for all transitive dependencies, enabling cargo audit to detect yanked or compromised crates.

  4. Downstream consumers can still ignore the lockfile if needed. Cargo allows cargo build --frozen with a local lockfile override, or consumers can vendor the crate with their own dependency resolution.

The tradeoff—occasional merge conflicts when PRs update overlapping dependencies—is worth the guarantee of reproducible releases. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the lockfile-update workflow.

Modules

  • parser: PDF spec parsing (xref, trailer, object streams, indirect references)
  • font: Font encoding recovery, glyph name lookup, fingerprinting
  • layout: Page layout analysis, region segmentation, reading order
  • extract: Text extraction with provenance (bounding boxes, confidence scores)
  • ocr: Tesseract integration for raster pages

Usage

use pdftract_core::{extract_text, ExtractOptions};

let options = ExtractOptions::default();
let result = extract_text("document.pdf", &options)?;
println!("{}", result.text);