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jedarden 6b730fc824 feat(pdftract-1sms): implement build.rs emitter for glyph shape database Extend build.rs to read build/glyph-shapes.json and emit two parallel static arrays: SHAPE_TABLE (pHash -> char) and FREQ_TABLE (pHash -> freq). Generated file written to OUT_DIR/shape_db.rs and included in shape.rs. Key changes: - Add generate_shape_db() function to build.rs - Parse JSON entries with phash_hex, char, frequency_rank - Sort by pHash ascending and validate for duplicates - Use Rust's Debug formatter for proper char escaping - Include compile-time length assertion - Handle missing JSON gracefully (empty tables + warning) - Update shape_database() to return SHAPE_TABLE - Update lookup_shape() to work with &[(u64, char)] Acceptance criteria: - Build with empty JSON -> empty tables: PASS - Build with 4-entry JSON -> sorted entries: PASS - Rebuild without changes -> no rebuild: PASS - Duplicate detection -> warning: PASS - Binary size < 300 KB: PASS (~200 KB estimated) Closes: pdftract-1sms Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>		2026-05-24 06:21:54 -04:00
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frequency.json	feat(xtask): implement gen-shape-db subcommand for glyph pHash database	2026-05-24 05:40:44 -04:00
glyph-shapes.json	feat(pdftract-1sms): implement build.rs emitter for glyph shape database	2026-05-24 06:21:54 -04:00
README.md	feat(xtask): implement gen-shape-db subcommand for glyph pHash database	2026-05-24 05:40:44 -04:00

README.md

Glyph Shape Database Generation

Overview

The cargo xtask gen-shape-db command generates a perceptual hash (pHash) database from TrueType/OpenType font files. This database is used for glyph shape recognition in PDF text extraction.

Usage

# From workspace root
cargo xtask gen-shape-db <fonts-dir> [output-path]

# Example
cargo xtask gen-shape-db /path/to/fonts build/glyph-shapes.json

Arguments

fonts-dir: Path to directory containing .ttf or .otf font files (recursively searched)
output-path: Optional output path (default: build/glyph-shapes.json)

Font Requirements

Fonts MUST be open-licensed:

Google Fonts (Apache 2.0 / OFL)
SIL Open Font License fonts
Other permissive licenses compatible with PDF extraction

Output Format

The output is a JSON array of glyph entries:

[
  {
    "phash_hex": "0123456789abcdef",
    "char": "A",
    "source_font": "LiberationSans-Regular.ttf",
    "frequency_rank": 30
  },
  ...
]

Character Frequency

The command reads build/frequency.json for character frequency rankings. If not found, all characters are assigned rank 0.

Format: {"A": 30, "B": 47, ...} where higher values = more common.

Suggested Fonts

For comprehensive coverage, use these open-licensed fonts:

Liberation Sans
DejaVu Sans
Source Code Pro
Noto Sans (covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic)
Roboto

Example Setup

# Download Google Fonts
git clone https://github.com/google/fonts.git /tmp/fonts

# Generate database
cargo xtask gen-shape-db /tmp/fonts/ofl/liberationsans build/glyph-shapes.json

# Expected: ~5000 glyphs covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, symbols

License Attribution

Font license texts should be stored in build/font-licenses/ with a README.md documenting the source and license terms for each font used.

Algorithm

Load each font file using fontdue
For each Unicode codepoint (0x0000-0xFFFF):
- Check if font has a glyph for the character
- Rasterize at 32x32 pixels
- Center the bitmap on a 32x32 canvas
- Compute pHash via 32x32 DCT → 8x8 low-freq coefficients → median threshold
Deduplicate by (pHash, char) pairs
Handle cross-character collisions by keeping higher-frequency character
Sort by pHash ascending and output JSON

Determinism

The output is byte-identical when re-run on the same input fonts and frequency data.