Kogwistar Graph-Knowledge Doc Pipeline

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Graph Knowledge Doc Pipeline

Utilities and experiments for document ingestion, PDF splitting, OCR, page-level parsing, and conversion into graph-knowledge artifacts that the Obsidian sink and downstream Kogwistar workflows can consume. Refactored from the kogwistar project as a standalone ingestion-to-graph pipeline.

Status

This repository is still being refactored and should be treated as work in progress.

The document ingestion pipeline is currently being extracted and consolidated into the main kogwistar repository. Until that refactor is complete, this repo should be considered an active staging area for parser and ingestion-related work.

What Is Here

• PDF splitting and image generation helpers in src/pdf2png.py
• Gemini-based OCR and page parsing flows in src/ocr.py
• SQLite-based ingestion telemetry in src/document_ingester_logger.py
• File discovery and filtering helpers in src/utils/file_loaders.py
• Experimental and regression-style tests under tests/

Workflow Surface

The reusable workflow-ingest code now has three layers:

• Python APIs, which are the primary contract for tests and orchestration
• CLI entrypoints, which are thin wrappers around those APIs
• composable subworkflows for OCR, page-index parsing, recursive layerwise parsing, and graph-knowledge conversion

The reusable helpers live under src/workflow_ingest/ and are designed so the same core logic can be called from tests, scripts, and higher-level workflow code without duplicating orchestration.

CLI Cheatsheet

Command	What it does	Main tests
workflow-ingest ocr <source> --output-dir <dir>	Runs OCR over a file or folder and writes OCR artifacts	tests/test_workflow_ingest_parsing_api.py, tests/test_workflow_ingest_cli.py
workflow-ingest page-index <source> --output-dir <dir>	Parses page-index text into structured graph input	tests/test_workflow_ingest_parsing_api.py, tests/test_workflow_ingest_cli.py
workflow-ingest layerwise <source> --output-dir <dir>	Runs the recursive layerwise parser workflow	tests/test_workflow_ingest_layerwise_parser.py, tests/test_workflow_ingest_cli.py
workflow-ingest demo --output-dir <dir>	Runs the end-to-end demo harness and writes run artifacts	tests/test_workflow_ingest_demo_harness.py
workflow-ingest ocr-smoke-assets --output-dir <dir>	Generates local OCR smoke assets for manual or automated runs	tests/test_workflow_ingest_cli.py

For a quick sanity check, workflow-ingest --help shows the full command tree, and workflow-ingest demo --help shows the demo-specific options without writing any artifacts.

CLI Commands

After poetry install, the repo exposes a workflow-ingest command family:

workflow-ingest --help
workflow-ingest ocr --help
workflow-ingest page-index --help
workflow-ingest layerwise --help
workflow-ingest demo --help
workflow-ingest ocr-smoke-assets --help

To inspect the demo harness options:

workflow-ingest demo --help

To actually run the demo harness, use:

workflow-ingest demo --output-dir logs\workflow_ingest_demo

Then open the output directory:

explorer logs\workflow_ingest_demo

That directory contains the probe trail, summary JSON, cache directory, and the local engine/server data for the run.

If you want the local checked-out ./kogwistar subtree to win over the GitHub dependency during development, run the Bash bootstrap helper after install:

bash ./scripts/bootstrap-dev.sh

That script does two things:

• runs poetry install
• if ./kogwistar exists, installs it editable into the active environment

If you do not run the bootstrap helper, the repo keeps using the GitHub-sourced kogwistar dependency declared in pyproject.toml.

Typical examples:

workflow-ingest ocr tests\.tmp_workflow_ingest_ocr\generated_smoke_assets\ocr_smoke_document.pdf --output-dir logs\ocr_run
workflow-ingest ocr tests\.tmp_workflow_ingest_ocr\generated_smoke_assets --output-dir logs\ocr_batch
workflow-ingest page-index tests\fixtures\page_index\sample_page_index.txt --output-dir logs\page_index
workflow-ingest layerwise tests\.tmp_workflow_ingest_ocr\manual_cases\ollama\glm-ocr_latest\image\artifacts\legacy_split_pages\ocr-manual-ollama-image --output-dir logs\layerwise
workflow-ingest ocr-smoke-assets --output-dir tests\.tmp_workflow_ingest_ocr\generated_smoke_assets

Reusable Artifacts

The workflow outputs are intentionally inspectable on disk:

• workflow-events.jsonl: readable step trail for the outer orchestration layer
• ocr-state.sqlite: authoritative OCR/render resume state
• ocr-progress.json: human-readable mirror of the current OCR state
• ocr-summary.json: final OCR run summary
• legacy_split_pages/<document>/page_N.json: legacy-compatible OCR page artifacts
• rendered_pages/<document>/page_N.png: rasterized page images
• page-index-summary.json: page-index run summary
• layerwise-summary.json: recursive layerwise parser summary
• layerwise-graph.json: legacy recursive layerwise graph payload

Python APIs

If you want to embed the pipelines directly, the main helpers are:

• src.workflow_ingest.run_ocr_source_workflow(...)
• src.workflow_ingest.run_ocr_batch_workflow(...)
• src.workflow_ingest.parse_page_index_document(...)
• src.workflow_ingest.run_page_index_source_workflow(...)
• src.workflow_ingest.run_layerwise_source_workflow(...)
• src.workflow_ingest.run_demo_harness_workflow(...)

Those helpers are meant to stay stable and are what the CLI layer calls under the hood.

Setup

1. Create and activate a Python 3.13 environment.
2. Install dependencies with Poetry:

poetry install

3. Create a local env file from the example:

Copy-Item .env.example .env

4. Add your local GOOGLE_API_KEY and any optional file-list paths needed for your workflow.

Environment Variables

The project currently expects or optionally uses:

• GOOGLE_API_KEY: required for Gemini OCR and LLM-backed parsing flows
• LANGSMITH_TRACING: optional LangSmith tracing toggle
• ocr_file_list: optional allow-list file for OCR runs
• split_raw_file_list: optional allow-list file for PDF splitting runs
• answer_export_list: optional export list path used by local workflows

An example template is provided in .env.example.

Provider Guide

The workflow layer is vendor-neutral, but the concrete OCR, parser, and embedding backends are selected by config.

OCR Provider Examples

• Google GenAI OCR:
  • KG_DOC_OCR_PROVIDER=gemini
  • KG_DOC_OCR_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash
• Ollama OCR or vision-capable local model:
  • KG_DOC_OCR_PROVIDER=ollama
  • KG_DOC_OCR_MODEL=llava:latest
  • KG_DOC_OCR_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434
• Vertex AI OCR:
  • KG_DOC_OCR_PROVIDER=vertex
  • KG_DOC_OCR_MODEL=gemini-2.5-pro
  • KG_DOC_OCR_PROJECT=my-project
  • KG_DOC_OCR_LOCATION=us-central1

Parser / LLM Provider Examples

The parser provider is the chat model used for semantic parsing, layer review, and structured extraction.

• LangChain Google GenAI:
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_PROVIDER=gemini
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash
• ChatGPT / OpenAI REST:
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_PROVIDER=openai
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_MODEL=gpt-4.1-mini
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_API_KEY_ENV=OPENAI_API_KEY
• LangChain Ollama:
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_PROVIDER=ollama
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_MODEL=llama3.1
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434
• LangChain Vertex AI:
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_PROVIDER=vertex
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_MODEL=gemini-2.5-pro
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_PROJECT=my-project
  • KG_DOC_PARSER_LOCATION=us-central1

Recipe Parsing Example

If you are parsing a cooking recipe, one practical split is:

• OCR on Gemini or another vision model
• parser on OpenAI, Ollama, or Vertex AI

For example:

KG_DOC_OCR_PROVIDER=gemini
KG_DOC_OCR_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash
KG_DOC_PARSER_PROVIDER=openai
KG_DOC_PARSER_MODEL=gpt-4.1-mini
KG_DOC_PARSER_API_KEY_ENV=OPENAI_API_KEY
KG_DOC_EMBED_PROVIDER=fake

That setup can extract a recipe into structured graph data such as:

• ingredients
• steps
• tools
• timers
• inferred sections like prep, cook, and serve

Embedding Examples

• Fake deterministic CI embedding:
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_PROVIDER=fake
• OpenAI embeddings:
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_PROVIDER=openai
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_MODEL=text-embedding-3-small
• Vertex AI embeddings:
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_PROVIDER=vertex
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_MODEL=text-embedding-004
• Ollama embeddings:
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_PROVIDER=ollama
  • KG_DOC_EMBED_MODEL=nomic-embed-text

Note:

• embedding_space in the workflow ingest models is currently a metadata and routing-intent label.
• It does not yet imply that the engine is using a separate embedder per space.
• The current engine bootstrap still wires one embedding function per engine instance, while the multi-space routing proposal remains a future Kogwistar core concern.

Running Tests

Some tests are integration-style and expect local document folders and API credentials to exist. That means not every test is portable in a clean checkout.

To run the test suite:

pytest -q

If you only want to work on isolated units, review the test files first and run a narrower subset.

Demo Harness

There is now a manual workflow-ingest demo harness that can run the end-to-end flow against:

• an in-process isolated FastAPI server
• a subprocess-hosted local server
• an already running external Kogwistar server

The legacy semantic-smoke test in tests/test_semantic_layerwise_doc_parsing.py also expects a live Kogwistar server at http://127.0.0.1:28110. It does not start that server for you, so use the VS Code server launch config or start it manually before running the Ollama case.

Example:

.venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_workflow_ingest_demo.py --output-dir logs\workflow_ingest_demo

External live server example:

.venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_workflow_ingest_demo.py --server-mode external_http --external-base-url http://127.0.0.1:28110

Demo artifacts are written into the chosen output directory:

• probe-events.jsonl: demo-friendly step and lifecycle probe events
• demo-summary.json: run summary, persistence result, and artifact pointers
• llm-cache/: workflow-native cached proposal/review call results
• engines/: local workflow and conversation graph storage for the run
• server-data/: isolated server-side persistence directory when the harness boots its own server

Notes:

• The workflow-native layer proposal/review path uses deterministic file-backed caching to reduce repeated token cost and compute time.
• The legacy parser path also supports a redirected joblib cache via KG_DOC_PARSER_JOBLIB_CACHE_DIR.
• Probe logging is separate from CDC and conversation graph traces, so demos can show a short readable event trail without digging into runtime internals.

OCR And Parsing Workflows

The newer workflow-first paths are designed as reusable subworkflows:

• OCR image/PDF ingest
  • resumable via ocr-state.sqlite
  • emits workflow-events.jsonl
  • keeps legacy OCR page artifacts on disk
• page-index parsing
  • heuristic mode for deterministic structure extraction
  • Ollama mode for local parser-backed parsing
• recursive layerwise parsing
  • wraps the legacy recursive parser in a reusable workflow runner

These can be invoked from Python directly or through the workflow-ingest CLI family, depending on whether you want reusable orchestration or a quick shell command.

Notes

• README.md, env handling, and ingestion boundaries are still being cleaned up as part of the ongoing refactor.
• Runtime outputs such as logs/, local .env, caches, and generated artifacts should remain uncommitted.
• If behavior diverges between this repo and kogwistar, prefer the direction of the ongoing migration and refactor work.