Large scanned PDFs (hundreds of pages) were slow and fragile end-to-end.
This change addresses the parse, transport, and task-scheduling layers:
docreader (parse + transport):
- Parallelize per-page scanned rendering across processes (forkserver/fork),
with serial fallback. ~4-7x faster on large scanned PDFs; pdfium is not
thread-safe so we fan out across processes. Configurable via
DOCREADER_PDF_RENDER_PARALLELISM.
- Add server-streaming ReadStream RPC: emit one meta frame then one frame per
image, so documents with many page images are no longer capped by the unary
gRPC message-size limit (a 874-page PDF produced ~193MiB of images, far over
the 50MB cap) and memory is bounded on both ends. Unary Read is kept for
backward compatibility; the Go production reader switches to ReadStream.
VLM:
- Make the VLM HTTP timeout configurable (VLM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS) and raise
the default 90s -> 180s so dense scanned-page OCR does not time out with
"context deadline exceeded".
Async task queues:
- Isolate high-volume, model-heavy fan-out tasks into dedicated asynq queues so
a single large document cannot saturate the shared worker pool and block
user-facing document parsing:
image:multimodal -> "multimodal"
chunk:extract -> "graph"
question:generation -> "question"
- Register the new queues in the server weight map and the cancel inspector's
scanned-queue set (so cancelling a knowledge still purges its pending tasks).
- Removed the image storage handling from the `_resolve_images` function, which now only decodes images and returns them as inline bytes.
- Updated the function's docstring to clarify that image persistence is managed by the Go App, and the return value for `image_dir_path` is always empty.
- Adjusted related gRPC and protobuf files to remove the `ConvertToPDF` method and its associated types, streamlining the API.
- Enhanced security measures in the frontend by implementing a placeholder for provider images and ensuring proper hydration of protected file images.
These changes improve the clarity and efficiency of image processing and API interactions within the application.
- Added a new `.env.lite.example` file for the Lite version, providing a minimal configuration template.
- Updated `.env.example` to remove deprecated variables and include new Docreader settings.
- Enhanced Docker configurations to support the Lite version, including a new Dockerfile for the Docreader service.
- Introduced a Makefile target for building and running the Lite version, along with packaging capabilities.
- Created GitHub workflows for building and releasing Lite binaries, including Homebrew formula support.
- Implemented a new service file for managing the Lite version as a system service.
This update enables a streamlined, single-binary deployment of WeKnora, reducing external dependencies and simplifying setup.
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