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ai-ad4 c299236743 feat(spike-B): reconstruction pipeline; F1=0.963 on synthetic corpus (§14 step 5)
Implement the text reconstruction pipeline (§4.1 steps 2-5) for the M0
Spike B gate:
- GlyphRun.h: input model (Glyph, GlyphRun, Line, Paragraph, GroundTruth)
  mirroring §3.2/§3.3
- Reconstruct.cpp: flatten → line detection (baseline cluster, 0.25×font
  tolerance) → reading order (descending-y for PDF coords) → paragraph
  grouping → boundary-F1 scorer
- Corpus.cpp: deterministic synthetic corpus generator (3-8 paras/doc,
  1-5 lines/para, realistic leading + paragraph gaps + short last lines)
- main.cpp: emits the contract JSON; exit 0 if F1 ≥ target

Gate MET: F1=0.963 (precision 0.929, recall 1.000) on 500 synthetic docs,
target ≥0.85. Verified clean under ASan+UBSan. The result and findings are
recorded in docs/spike-results/0002-spike-b-reconstruction.md.

Key findings: (1) the leading-gap signal is primary for paragraph breaks;
treating short-last-line as primary over-segmented (F1 0.37→0.96 fixed).
(2) PDF coordinate orientation (y-up) inverts reading order — easy to get
backwards. (3) column-width inference must use a percentile not the max.
(4) the 80/20 boundary is visible in the 166/500 imperfect docs (single-line
paras, list items) — the real labelled corpus (§8.1) is needed for the 0.93
release gate.

Step 1 (glyph→Unicode via cmap/ToUnicode) is deliberately not exercised
here — the synthetic corpus knows Unicode by construction; it is the next
reconstruction work and the highest-risk step.

CI: add a spike-gates job to .gitea/workflows/build.yml that runs Spike A
(informational — the byte-identity gate is met by §4.4 surgical splice in
M2, not by QPDFWriter) and Spike B (fails the build on regression) on Linux.

Signed-off-by: ai-ad4 <ai-ad4@users.noreply.gitea.lm.je>
2026-07-25 20:38:24 +00:00
.gitea/workflows feat(spike-B): reconstruction pipeline; F1=0.963 on synthetic corpus (§14 step 5) 2026-07-25 20:38:24 +00:00
LICENSES chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
ci chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
cmake chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
docs feat(spike-B): reconstruction pipeline; F1=0.963 on synthetic corpus (§14 step 5) 2026-07-25 20:38:24 +00:00
packaging chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
spike feat(spike-B): reconstruction pipeline; F1=0.963 on synthetic corpus (§14 step 5) 2026-07-25 20:38:24 +00:00
src chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
test fix(spike-A): adapt to installed QPDF 12.2 API; fix use-after-free 2026-07-25 20:30:37 +00:00
.clang-format chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.clang-tidy chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.editorconfig chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.gitattributes chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.gitignore chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.gitleaks.toml chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
CMakePresets.json chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
CODEOWNERS chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.md chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
README.md chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
REUSE.toml build(license): convert dep5 to REUSE.toml; record Spike A result 2026-07-25 20:30:43 +00:00
SECURITY.md chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
TRADEMARK.md build(license): convert dep5 to REUSE.toml; record Spike A result 2026-07-25 20:30:43 +00:00
vcpkg-configuration.json chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00
vcpkg.json chore: initial repository scaffold (§14 steps 1-3, 9) 2026-07-25 20:14:22 +00:00

README.md

FreePDFEditor

A cross-platform native desktop PDF editor with a true WYSIWYG interface and full content editing: edit existing text with reflow, replace images, manipulate vector objects, plus annotations, forms, signatures, and page assembly.

  • Stack: C++20, Qt 6.7 (Widgets shell, custom canvas), CMake, vcpkg.
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt). Qt is dynamically linked under LGPL-3.0.
  • Targets: Windows 10+, macOS 12+ (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux (X11/Wayland).

This repository contains the source and build infrastructure. The full engineering plan and roadmap live in docs/plan.md; architecture decision records are under docs/adr/.

Status

Pre-M0. This is the initial repository scaffold described in §14 of the plan: CMake + vcpkg skeleton, governance docs, CI matrix, packaging pipeline, an empty-window application shell, the pixel-diff harness scaffolding, and the Spike A (QPDF verbatim round-trip) harness. The feasibility spikes that gate the project run on top of this scaffolding.

Building

cmake --preset default
cmake --build --preset default
ctest --preset default

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full build setup, gate matrix, and coding standard.

Source control

All code is developed on the project Gitea instance at https://gitea.lm.je/ai-ad4/freepdfeditor per docs/plan.md §13. See SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting.