Feat/refactor layoutelement textregion to vectorized data structure (#3881)

This PR refactors the data structure for `list[LayoutElement]` and
`list[TextRegion]` used in partition pdf/image files.

- new data structure replaces a list of objects with one object with
`numpy` array to store data
- this only affects partition internal steps and it doesn't change input
or output signature of `partition` function itself, i.e., `partition`
still returns `list[Element]`
- internally `list[LayoutElement]` -> `LayoutElements`;
`list[TextRegion]` -> `TextRegions`
- current refactor stops before clean up pdfminer elements inside
inferred layout elements -> the algorithm of clean up needs to be
refactored before the data structure refactor can move forward. So
current refactor converts the array data structure into list data
structure with `element_array.as_list()` call. This is the last step
before turning `list[LayoutElement]` into `list[Element]` as return
- a future PR will update this last step so that we build
`list[Element]` from `LayoutElements` data structure instead.

The goal of this PR is to replace the data structure as much as possible
without changing underlying logic. There are a few places where the
slicing or filtering logic was simple enough to be converted into vector
data structure operations. Those are refactored to be vector based. As a
result there is some small improvements observed in ingest test. This is
likely because the vector operations cleaned up some previous
inconsistency in data types and operations.

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Co-authored-by: ryannikolaidis <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: badGarnet <[email protected]>

Author: badGarnet

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+## 0.16.16-dev0
+
+### Enhancements
+
+### Features
+- **Vectorize layout (inferred, extracted, and OCR) data structure** Using `np.ndarray` to store a group of layout elements or text regions instead of using a list of objects. This improves the memory efficiency and compute speed around layout merging and deduplication.
+
+### Fixes
+
 ## 0.16.15
 
 ### Enhancements

Dockerfile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM quay.io/unstructured-io/base-images:wolfi-base-latest AS base
 
 ARG PYTHON=python3.11
-ARG PIP=pip3.11
+ARG PIP="${PYTHON} -m pip"
 
 USER root
 
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ RUN chown -R notebook-user:notebook-user /app && \
 
 USER notebook-user
 
+# append PATH before pip install to avoid warning logs; it also avoids issues with packages that needs compilation during installation
+ENV PATH="${PATH}:/home/notebook-user/.local/bin"
+ENV TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/local/share/tessdata
 ENV NLTK_DATA=/home/notebook-user/nltk_data
 
 # Install Python dependencies and download required NLTK packages
@@ -28,7 +31,4 @@ RUN find requirements/ -type f -name "*.txt" -exec $PIP install --no-cache-dir -
     $PYTHON -c "from unstructured.partition.model_init import initialize; initialize()" && \
     $PYTHON -c "from unstructured_inference.models.tables import UnstructuredTableTransformerModel; model = UnstructuredTableTransformerModel(); model.initialize('microsoft/table-transformer-structure-recognition')"
 
-ENV PATH="${PATH}:/home/notebook-user/.local/bin"
-ENV TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/local/share/tessdata
-
 CMD ["/bin/bash"]

Makefile

@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ docker-test:
 	$(DOCKER_IMAGE) \
 	bash -c "CI=$(CI) \
 	UNSTRUCTURED_INCLUDE_DEBUG_METADATA=$(UNSTRUCTURED_INCLUDE_DEBUG_METADATA) \
-	pytest $(if $(TEST_FILE),$(TEST_FILE),test_unstructured)"
+	python3 -m pytest $(if $(TEST_FILE),$(TEST_FILE),test_unstructured)"
 
 .PHONY: docker-smoke-test
 docker-smoke-test:

test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_image.py

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ def __init__(self, number: int, image: Image):
                 text="Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin",
             ),
         ]
+        self.elements_array = layout.LayoutElements.from_list(self.elements)
 
 
 class MockDocumentLayout(layout.DocumentLayout):
@@ -254,7 +255,10 @@ def test_partition_image_with_ocr_detects_korean():
     )
 
     assert elements[0].text == "RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS"
-    assert elements[3].text.replace(" ", "").startswith("안녕하세요")
+    # FIXME (yao): revisit this lstrip after refactoring merging logics; right now on docker and
+    # local testing yield different results and on docker there is a "," at the start of the Korean
+    # text line
+    assert elements[3].text.replace(" ", "").lstrip(",").startswith("안녕하세요")
 
 
 def test_partition_image_with_ocr_detects_korean_from_file():
@@ -267,7 +271,7 @@ def test_partition_image_with_ocr_detects_korean_from_file():
         )
 
     assert elements[0].text == "RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS"
-    assert elements[3].text.replace(" ", "").startswith("안녕하세요")
+    assert elements[3].text.replace(" ", "").lstrip(",").startswith("안녕하세요")
 
 
 def test_partition_image_raises_with_bad_strategy():
@@ -579,6 +583,7 @@ def inference_results():
         image=mock.MagicMock(format="JPEG"),
     )
     page.elements = [layout.LayoutElement.from_coords(0, 0, 600, 800, text="hello")]
+    page.elements_array = layout.LayoutElements.from_list(page.elements)
     doc = layout.DocumentLayout(pages=[page])
     return doc
 

test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_inference_utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from unstructured_inference.inference.elements import TextRegion, TextRegions
-from unstructured_inference.inference.layoutelement import LayoutElement
+from unstructured_inference.inference.layoutelement import LayoutElement, LayoutElements
 
 from unstructured.documents.elements import ElementType
 from unstructured.partition.pdf_image.inference_utils import (
@@ -22,16 +22,72 @@ def test_merge_text_regions(mock_embedded_text_regions):
 
 
 def test_build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions(mock_embedded_text_regions):
-    expected = [
-        LayoutElement.from_coords(
-            x1=437.83888888888885,
-            y1=317.319341111111,
-            x2=1256.334784222222,
-            y2=406.9837855555556,
-            text="LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image",
-            type=ElementType.UNCATEGORIZED_TEXT,
-        ),
-    ]
-
-    elements = build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions(mock_embedded_text_regions)
+    expected = LayoutElements.from_list(
+        [
+            LayoutElement.from_coords(
+                x1=437.83888888888885,
+                y1=317.319341111111,
+                x2=1256.334784222222,
+                y2=406.9837855555556,
+                text="LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image",
+                type=ElementType.UNCATEGORIZED_TEXT,
+            ),
+        ]
+    )
+
+    elements = build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions(
+        TextRegions.from_list(mock_embedded_text_regions)
+    )
     assert elements == expected
+
+
+def test_build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions_with_text(mock_embedded_text_regions):
+    text = "LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image"
+    expected = LayoutElements.from_list(
+        [
+            LayoutElement.from_coords(
+                x1=437.83888888888885,
+                y1=317.319341111111,
+                x2=1256.334784222222,
+                y2=406.9837855555556,
+                text=text,
+                type=ElementType.UNCATEGORIZED_TEXT,
+            ),
+        ]
+    )
+
+    elements = build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions(
+        TextRegions.from_list(mock_embedded_text_regions),
+        text,
+        group_by_ocr_text=True,
+    )
+    assert elements == expected
+
+
+def test_build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions_with_multi_line_text(mock_embedded_text_regions):
+    text = "LayoutParser: \n\nA Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image"
+    elements = build_layout_elements_from_ocr_regions(
+        TextRegions.from_list(mock_embedded_text_regions),
+        text,
+        group_by_ocr_text=True,
+    )
+    assert elements == LayoutElements.from_list(
+        [
+            LayoutElement.from_coords(
+                x1=453.00277777777774,
+                y1=317.319341111111,
+                x2=711.5338541666665,
+                y2=358.28571222222206,
+                text="LayoutParser:",
+                type=ElementType.UNCATEGORIZED_TEXT,
+            ),
+            LayoutElement.from_coords(
+                x1=437.83888888888885,
+                y1=317.319341111111,
+                x2=1256.334784222222,
+                y2=406.9837855555556,
+                text="A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image",
+                type=ElementType.UNCATEGORIZED_TEXT,
+            ),
+        ]
+    )