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Make the outline page translation more robust and configurable#26

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Hi,

I encountered outline "page title" that the existing code could not recognize:

Could not determine page number from the page title #__sk_0000.djvu.

So I added a regex matching for the first consecutive number substring.

Also the page table translation rule is not the same neither. Existing code assumes the outline always start from page number 1 while for PDF the page number should start from 0.

This PR also introduced an option to config such outline translation page offset.

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In addition to the less-important comments:

As far as I understand, there are two scenarios:

  1. In the average case, pages do not have explicit names set, and their page numbers are simply incremental. This is the case currently covered. I have determined that this case behaves correctly with an offset.

  2. In the more complicated cases, page titles contain page numbers, and it is sometimes possible to extract those numbers. I have given an example in test_outline_with_page_titles where this is not-at-all straightforward, and why I did not implement it in the first place. Anyhow, this case does not need an offset.

Some conclusions:

  • I believe we can skip the offset parameter altogether because one use case requires a static offset and the other does not, in general, require an offset. Implementation details may change, but the public interface must only be changed in radical situations. This is why I try to be very careful about what parameters the program provides.
  • Make sure to write several tests for your use cases, because we want to preserve current behavior and make the new behavior consistent. In particular, see the aforementioned test.

Comment thread dpsprep/dpsprep.py Outdated
@click.option('-p', '--pool-size', type=click.IntRange(min=0), default=4, help='Size of MultiProcessing pool for handling page-by-page operations.')
@click.option('-q', '--quality', type=click.IntRange(min=0, max=100), default=75, help="Quality of images in output. Used only for JPEG compression, i.e. RGB and Grayscale images. Passed directly to Pillow and to OCRmyPDF's optimizer.")
@click.option('--ocr', type=str, is_flag=False, flag_value='{}', help='Perform OCR via OCRmyPDF rather than trying to convert the text layer. If this parameter has a value, it should be a JSON dictionary of options to be passed to OCRmyPDF.')
@click.option('--toc-pg-offset', type=int, default=-1, help='The page offset to be applied when translating outline/toc. default is -1')
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There is no need to specify the default in the help string. click will display a default.

Also, this should be added to the README and the dpsprep.1.ronn page.

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Hi v, I am not seeing click to display a default. I am updating this PR according to (stackoverflow)[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57550012/how-to-tell-click-to-always-show-option-defaults) to let click display default values.

README and dpsprep.1.ronn are updated.

Comment thread dpsprep/outline.py Outdated
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if page_number < 0 or page_number >= self.total_pages:
logger.warning(f'The page title \'{page.value}\' will be translated to an invalid number {page_number}.')
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"will be" implies that this will happen; and you return specifically for it not to happen.

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Updated.

Comment thread dpsprep/outline.py Outdated
# Based on
# https://github.com/pmaupin/pdfrw/issues/52#issuecomment-271190546
class OutlineTransformVisitor(SExpressionVisitor):
def __init__(self, toc_pg_offset : int, total_pages : int):
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This code fails the type checker - try running make lint.

  1. These two type hints should also be added to the class itself (dataclasses can then be used to avoid writing a trivial constructor, but given that the other code here doesn't use dataclasses, I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it).

  2. Please use consistent styling. The other code has no space before the colons.

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Passed make lint on my side. Fixed the inconsistent styling.

Comment thread dpsprep/outline.py Outdated
super().__init__()
def visit_plain_list(self, node: djvu.sexpr.StringExpression, parent: IndirectPdfDict):
title, page, *rest = node
# I have experimentally determined that we need to translate page indices. -- Ianis, 2023-05-03
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This comment refers to the approach that you are trying to replace. It should be either deleted or updated.

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Updated.

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v-- commented May 4, 2024

@Alkaid-Benetnash I appreciate you addressing my concrete code-related comments, but I am afraid you missed the more essential one.

Please see #26 (review) . Review the failing unit tests and, more concretely, see #23 for an example file where your approach fails. I hope you will understand why I am hesitant towards the approach in the pull request. I have tried several solutions myself and have come to the conclusion that none of them work well.

A proper solution would require digging into libdjvu, but I am afraid neither of us is willing to do that.

Please review the aforementioned comment and issue, review the failing unit tests and see if you come up with a solution to the problems outlined there.

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