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familienarchiv/ocr-service/main.py
Marcel d8dcba1a71 fix(ocr): unblock event loop during OCR and show errors in UI
OCR engines are CPU-bound and were blocking Uvicorn's single async
event loop, making /health unresponsive during processing. This caused
new OCR requests to fail silently (health check failure → no DB record
→ UI shows NONE). Wrap engine calls in asyncio.to_thread() to keep the
event loop free. Also surface OCR trigger errors in the frontend
instead of silently resetting the spinner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-12 23:50:39 +02:00

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"""OCR microservice — FastAPI app with Surya and Kraken engine support."""
import asyncio
import io
import logging
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
import httpx
import pypdfium2 as pdfium
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from PIL import Image
from confidence import apply_confidence_markers, get_threshold
from engines import kraken as kraken_engine
from engines import surya as surya_engine
from models import OcrBlock, OcrRequest
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_models_ready = False
@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
"""Load lightweight models at startup. Surya loads lazily on first request."""
global _models_ready
logger.info("Loading Kraken model at startup (Surya loads lazily on first OCR request)...")
kraken_engine.load_models()
_models_ready = True
logger.info("Startup complete — ready to accept requests")
yield
logger.info("Shutting down OCR service")
app = FastAPI(title="Familienarchiv OCR Service", lifespan=lifespan)
@app.get("/health")
def health():
"""Health endpoint — returns 200 only after models are loaded."""
if not _models_ready:
raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Models not loaded yet")
return {"status": "ok", "surya": True, "kraken": kraken_engine.is_available()}
@app.post("/ocr", response_model=list[OcrBlock])
async def run_ocr(request: OcrRequest):
"""Run OCR on a PDF document.
Downloads the PDF from the provided URL, converts pages to images,
and runs the appropriate OCR engine based on scriptType.
OCR engines run in a thread pool so the event loop stays free for /health.
"""
if not _models_ready:
raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Models not loaded yet")
images = await _download_and_convert_pdf(request.pdfUrl)
script_type = request.scriptType.upper()
if script_type == "HANDWRITING_KURRENT":
if not kraken_engine.is_available():
raise HTTPException(
status_code=400,
detail="Kraken model not available — cannot process Kurrent script",
)
blocks = await asyncio.to_thread(kraken_engine.extract_blocks, images, request.language)
else:
# TYPEWRITER, HANDWRITING_LATIN, UNKNOWN — all use Surya
blocks = await asyncio.to_thread(surya_engine.extract_blocks, images, request.language)
threshold = get_threshold(script_type)
for block in blocks:
if block.get("words"):
block["text"] = apply_confidence_markers(block["words"], threshold)
block.pop("words", None)
return [OcrBlock(**b) for b in blocks]
async def _download_and_convert_pdf(url: str) -> list[Image.Image]:
"""Download a PDF from a presigned URL and convert each page to a PIL Image."""
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=httpx.Timeout(300.0)) as client:
response = await client.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
pdf = pdfium.PdfDocument(io.BytesIO(response.content))
images = []
for page_idx in range(len(pdf)):
page = pdf[page_idx]
# Render at 200 DPI — balances OCR quality vs memory usage
# (Surya 0.17 models use ~5GB idle; 300 DPI causes OOM on multi-page docs)
bitmap = page.render(scale=200 / 72)
pil_image = bitmap.to_pil()
images.append(pil_image)
return images