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daveandClaude Fable 5 74b06be742 pinion-pdf 1.0.0: rebuild a CSV from a spreadsheet printed to PDF
Derives page layout from the file itself (batch size, column edges, row
grid, heading font), places text by start-x to survive cell overflow,
detects blackout redactions including filled-path bars and
single-character bars, and self-verifies via Excel's printed row-number
chain. Output byte-identical to four independently written
implementations across a 1,048,576-row reference file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012bQ28wRBiQYcSR9FzV9U7c
2026-09-07 00:50:08 -04:00

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import sys
import statistics
import pymupdf
from .page import all_runs, run_start, run_text, row_numbers, vertical_rules
def find_heading_font(page0):
"""Excel draws its labelling (row numbers, letter strip) in a different
font from the data, and the row numbers sit leftmost on the page. So:
whatever font the leftmost text uses is the labelling font."""
leftmost = min(all_runs(page0), key=lambda r: run_start(r)[0])
if not run_text(leftmost).strip().isdigit():
sys.exit("Expected a row number at the far left of page 1, found "
f"{run_text(leftmost)!r}. Was this printed from a spreadsheet "
"with row and column headings switched on?")
return leftmost["font"]
def find_table_left(page0, font):
"""Where cell data begins. Left of this: margin. Right of this: table."""
return min(run_start(r)[0] for r in all_runs(page0) if r["font"] != font)
def column_letters(page, font, table_left):
"""The 'A B C D' strip above the table, read left to right."""
got = []
for run in all_runs(page):
if run["font"] != font:
continue
for ch in run["chars"]:
if ch[2][0] >= table_left and chr(ch[0]).isalpha():
got.append((ch[2][0], chr(ch[0])))
return "".join(c for _, c in sorted(got))
def find_batch_shape(doc, font, table_left):
"""How many pages hold one batch of rows, and which columns each shows.
We follow the letter strip page by page until it starts over at 'A'."""
strips = [column_letters(doc[p], font, table_left)
for p in range(min(40, doc.page_count))]
if not strips[0].startswith("A"):
sys.exit(f"Page 1 starts at column {strips[0][:1]!r}, not 'A'. This "
"does not look like the first page of a printed spreadsheet.")
ppb = next((i for i in range(1, len(strips))
if strips[i].startswith("A")), None)
if ppb is None:
sys.exit("Could not find where the column letters start over at 'A'.")
if doc.page_count % ppb:
sys.exit(f"The file has {doc.page_count} pages, which does not divide "
f"evenly into batches of {ppb}. The layout is not uniform "
"and this tool cannot safely rebuild it.")
return strips[:ppb], ppb, doc.page_count // ppb
def find_row_grid(page0_runs, font, table_left):
"""Rows per page, row height, and where the first row sits -- read off
the printed row numbers, which is exact. Assumes rows are evenly spaced
and the same height throughout the file."""
gutter = row_numbers(page0_runs, font, table_left)
if len(gutter) < 2:
sys.exit("Could not read Excel's printed row numbers from the left "
"margin of page 1. They are required to place rows exactly.")
ys = sorted(gutter)
if gutter[ys[0]] != 1:
sys.exit(f"Page 1 begins at spreadsheet row {gutter[ys[0]]}, not "
"row 1. This may not be the start of the document.")
pitch = statistics.median(b - a for a, b in zip(ys, ys[1:]))
return len(gutter), pitch, ys[0]
def find_column_edges(doc, font, strips, ppb, n_batches):
"""Column boundaries for each page type. Excel only draws a boundary
where a cell has a border, so no single page shows all of them -- we
sample many pages of each type and combine. Edges closer than 2pt are
the same line drawn twice; anything left of the first cell is margin,
except the last such line, which is the table's own left edge."""
step = max(1, n_batches // 80)
bands = []
for slice_no in range(ppb):
found, starts = set(), []
for b in range(0, n_batches, step):
page = doc[b * ppb + slice_no]
found |= vertical_rules(page)
starts += [run_start(r)[0] for r in all_runs(page)
if r["font"] != font]
if not starts:
sys.exit(f"No cell text found anywhere on page type {slice_no + 1}.")
leftmost_cell = min(starts)
edges = []
for x in sorted(found):
if x > leftmost_cell:
if edges and x - edges[-1] < 2.0:
continue
edges.append(x)
else:
edges = [x]
wanted = len(strips[slice_no]) + 1
if len(edges) != wanted:
sys.exit(f"On page type {slice_no + 1} the column letters say "
f"there are {len(strips[slice_no])} columns "
f"({strips[slice_no]}), which needs {wanted} edges, but "
f"{len(edges)} were found.")
bands.append(edges)
return bands
def measure(path):
"""Establish every fact the converter needs, narrating as we go."""
doc = pymupdf.open(path)
page0_runs = all_runs(doc[0])
print("MEASURING THE PAGE")
print("-" * 62)
font = find_heading_font(doc[0])
print(f" heading font ......... {font}")
table_left = find_table_left(doc[0], font)
print(f" table starts at x .... {table_left:.1f}pt "
f"(left of this is the row-number margin)")
strips, ppb, n_batches = find_batch_shape(doc, font, table_left)
print(f" pages per batch ...... {ppb} column strips {strips}")
print(f" batches in the file .. {n_batches:,}")
rows_per_page, pitch, first_row_y = find_row_grid(page0_runs, font, table_left)
print(f" rows per page ........ {rows_per_page}")
print(f" row height ........... {pitch:.2f}pt "
f"(first row sits at y={first_row_y:.1f})")
bands = find_column_edges(doc, font, strips, ppb, n_batches)
for i, edges in enumerate(bands):
print(f" page type {i + 1} ({strips[i]:<8}) {len(edges) - 1} columns, "
f"edges {' '.join(f'{e:.0f}' for e in edges)}")
# Telling a blackout bar from a grid line: separate by SHAPE, not size.
# A single-character blackout is only ~3pt wide, but it is always as
# tall as the writing it hides; a rule is long but paper-thin.
bar_min_w, bar_min_h = 1.2, pitch * 0.5
print(f" blackout bars ........ solid shapes over {bar_min_w}pt wide "
f"and {bar_min_h:.1f}pt tall")
print(f" spreadsheet shape .... {n_batches * rows_per_page:,} rows "
f"x {sum(len(s) for s in strips)} columns\n")
doc.close()
return {
"font": font, "table_left": table_left, "strips": strips,
"ppb": ppb, "n_batches": n_batches, "bands": bands,
"rows_per_page": rows_per_page, "pitch": pitch,
"first_row_y": first_row_y, "bar_min_w": bar_min_w,
"bar_min_h": bar_min_h,
"n_cols": sum(len(s) for s in strips),
"offsets": [sum(len(s) for s in strips[:i]) for i in range(ppb)],
}