# app.py - Hybrid RAG (FAISS semantic + BM25, fused with RRF) for multi-format documents. # Handles: PDFs (text + tables, OCR for scanned pages), DOCX (with tables), PPTX, XLSX/CSV, TXT/MD. Arabic + English. import glob import io import os import re import shutil import subprocess import tempfile import unicodedata from collections import defaultdict import faiss import fitz # PyMuPDF import numpy as np import pandas as pd import streamlit as st from docx import Document from langchain_groq import ChatGroq from PIL import Image, ImageOps from pptx import Presentation from rank_bm25 import BM25Okapi from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer # ========================= CONSTANTS ========================= EMBED_MODEL_NAME = "paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2" # Arabic + English, 384-dim LLM_MODEL_NAME = "openai/gpt-oss-120b" CHUNK_WORDS = 80 # stays under the embedding model's 128-token limit CHUNK_OVERLAP = 15 TABLE_CHUNK_WORDS = 60 # table/spreadsheet rows are token-heavy, so smaller groups RRF_K = 60 OCR_DPI = 200 # Tesseract works best when text is ~30px tall; 400 hurt large poster text. Raise for tiny fax text. OCR_PSMS = (3, 11) # 3 = auto page layout, 11 = sparse text (finds scattered words on posters) EXTRACT_VERSION = "ocr-cli-v3" # bump to invalidate st.cache_data (it does not track helper functions) OCR_LANGS = "ara+eng" OCR_FALLBACK_LANGS = "eng" # tried first (Arabic data can hurt English-only pages); also the fallback if Arabic data is missing OCR_CONTENT_THRESHOLD = 200 # gray level below which a pixel counts as "content" (0-255) OCR_CLIP_PAD = 8 # points of padding around detected content # ========================= TEXT NORMALIZATION ========================= DIACRITICS_RE = re.compile(r"[ؐ-ًؚ-ٰٟۖ-ۭ]") DIGIT_MAP = str.maketrans("٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹", "01234567890123456789") def light_clean(text): text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text) text = DIACRITICS_RE.sub("", text) return text.replace("ـ", "") def normalize(text): text = light_clean(text).translate(DIGIT_MAP) text = re.sub("[إأآٱ]", "ا", text) text = text.replace("ى", "ي").replace("ة", "ه") return text.lower() def tokenize(text): tokens = re.findall(r"[\w\+#]+", normalize(text)) return [t[2:] if len(t) > 4 and t.startswith("ال") else t for t in tokens] # ========================= EXTRACTION ========================= def make_block(text, source, loc, kind): return {"text": text, "source": source, "loc": loc, "kind": kind} def pdf_tables(page): out = [] try: for t in page.find_tables().tables: lines = [] for r in t.extract(): cells = [(c or "").replace("\n", " ").strip() for c in r] if any(cells): lines.append(" | ".join(cells)) if len(lines) >= 2: out.append("\n".join(lines)) except Exception: pass return out def _set_tessdata(): """Point PyMuPDF at Tesseract's language data (path differs by distro/version).""" if os.environ.get("TESSDATA_PREFIX"): return for p in glob.glob("/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/*/tessdata") + ["/usr/share/tessdata"]: if os.path.isdir(p): os.environ["TESSDATA_PREFIX"] = p return def _content_clip(page): """Bounding box of non-white content, so large blank margins don't shrink the text during OCR. Returns None if the page is blank, or the full page rect if the content already fills it.""" try: pix = page.get_pixmap(dpi=72, colorspace=fitz.csGRAY) # at 72 dpi, 1 pixel = 1 point arr = np.frombuffer(pix.samples, dtype=np.uint8).reshape(pix.height, pix.width) ys, xs = np.where(arr < OCR_CONTENT_THRESHOLD) if xs.size == 0: return None r = page.rect clip = fitz.Rect( r.x0 + xs.min() - OCR_CLIP_PAD, r.y0 + ys.min() - OCR_CLIP_PAD, r.x0 + xs.max() + 1 + OCR_CLIP_PAD, r.y0 + ys.max() + 1 + OCR_CLIP_PAD, ) & r if clip.is_empty or clip.width < 20 or clip.height < 20: return r return clip except Exception: return page.rect def _render_gray(page, clip): pix = page.get_pixmap(dpi=OCR_DPI, clip=clip, colorspace=fitz.csGRAY) return Image.frombytes("L", (pix.width, pix.height), pix.samples) def _tesseract_cli(img, lang, psm): """Run the tesseract binary directly on a PIL image. Raises if it is missing or fails.""" with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp: path = os.path.join(tmp, "page.png") img.save(path) env = dict(os.environ) r = subprocess.run(["tesseract", path, "stdout", "-l", lang, "--psm", str(psm)], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=180, env=env) if r.returncode != 0: raise RuntimeError((r.stderr or "tesseract failed").strip()[:300]) return unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", r.stdout).strip() def _tesseract_pymupdf(img, lang): """Fallback when the tesseract binary is not on PATH: PyMuPDF's built-in OCR.""" w, h = img.size pix = fitz.Pixmap(fitz.csGRAY, w, h, img.tobytes(), False) pix.set_dpi(OCR_DPI, OCR_DPI) ocr_doc = fitz.open("pdf", pix.pdfocr_tobytes(language=lang)) try: return unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", ocr_doc[0].get_text("text") or "").strip() finally: ocr_doc.close() def ocr_page(page): """OCR a scanned page. Returns (text, error). Tries English first, then Arabic+English, each on the raw render and a contrast-stretched inverted copy (for white-on-dark banners), with two page-segmentation modes, and merges the unique lines. error is None unless every attempt raised.""" _set_tessdata() clip = _content_clip(page) if clip is None: # truly blank page: nothing to OCR, and not an error return "", None, "page looked blank (no pixels darker than the content threshold)" try: raw = _render_gray(page, clip) except Exception as e: return "", f"could not render page: {e}", "" inv = ImageOps.invert(ImageOps.autocontrast(raw, cutoff=2)) use_cli = shutil.which("tesseract") is not None errors, lines, seen = [], [], set() for lang in dict.fromkeys((OCR_FALLBACK_LANGS, OCR_LANGS)): # de-duplicated, order kept for img in (raw, inv): for psm in (OCR_PSMS if use_cli else (None,)): try: txt = _tesseract_cli(img, lang, psm) if use_cli else _tesseract_pymupdf(img, lang) except Exception as e: errors.append(f"[{lang}] {e}") continue for ln in txt.splitlines(): key = re.sub(r"\W+", "", ln.lower()) if len(key) >= 3 and key not in seen: seen.add(key) lines.append(ln.strip()) info = f"engine={'tesseract CLI' if use_cli else 'PyMuPDF OCR'}, image={raw.size[0]}x{raw.size[1]}px, unique lines={len(lines)}" if lines: return "\n".join(lines), None, info return "", ("; ".join(errors) if errors else None), info def extract_pdf(name, data): blocks = [] stats = {"pages": 0, "tables": 0, "notes": []} doc = fitz.open(stream=data, filetype="pdf") empty_pages, ocr_pages, ocr_errors, ocr_infos = [], [], [], [] for i, page in enumerate(doc, 1): stats["pages"] += 1 loc = f"p.{i}" text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", page.get_text("text") or "").strip() for tbl in pdf_tables(page): blocks.append(make_block(tbl, name, loc, "table")) stats["tables"] += 1 if len(text) < 50: ocr_text, ocr_err, ocr_info = ocr_page(page) ocr_infos.append((i, len(ocr_text), ocr_info)) if ocr_err: ocr_errors.append((i, ocr_err)) if len(ocr_text) > len(text): text = ocr_text ocr_pages.append(i) if len(text) < 50: empty_pages.append(i) if text: blocks.append(make_block(text, name, loc, "text")) if ocr_pages: shown = ", ".join(map(str, ocr_pages[:15])) + ("..." if len(ocr_pages) > 15 else "") stats["notes"].append(f"OCR used on page(s) {shown}. Text may contain recognition errors.") if ocr_errors: # Report the first error once; it usually repeats for every page. first_pages = ", ".join(str(p) for p, _ in ocr_errors[:15]) + ("..." if len(ocr_errors) > 15 else "") stats["notes"].append( f"OCR could not run on page(s) {first_pages}: {ocr_errors[0][1]}. " "Check that Tesseract and its language data (eng, ara) are installed." ) if empty_pages: dbg = "; ".join(f"p.{p}: {n} chars, {inf}" for p, n, inf in ocr_infos if p in empty_pages[:3]) if dbg: stats["notes"].append(f"OCR details: {dbg}") shown = ", ".join(map(str, empty_pages[:15])) + ("..." if len(empty_pages) > 15 else "") stats["notes"].append( f"Little or no readable text found on page(s) {shown}" + ("." if ocr_errors else ", even after OCR.") ) return blocks, stats def extract_docx(name, data): doc = Document(io.BytesIO(data)) blocks, tables = [], 0 text = "\n".join(p.text for p in doc.paragraphs if p.text.strip()) if text.strip(): blocks.append(make_block(text, name, None, "text")) for table in doc.tables: lines = [] for row in table.rows: cells = [c.text.replace("\n", " ").strip() for c in row.cells] if any(cells): lines.append(" | ".join(cells)) if len(lines) >= 2: blocks.append(make_block("\n".join(lines), name, None, "table")) tables += 1 return blocks, {"pages": 1, "tables": tables, "notes": ["Images embedded inside the DOCX are not read."]} def extract_pptx(name, data): prs = Presentation(io.BytesIO(data)) blocks, tables = [], 0 for i, slide in enumerate(prs.slides, 1): loc = f"slide {i}" texts = [] for shape in slide.shapes: if shape.has_text_frame and shape.text_frame.text.strip(): texts.append(shape.text_frame.text.strip()) if getattr(shape, "has_table", False) and shape.has_table: lines = [" | ".join(c.text.strip() for c in row.cells) for row in shape.table.rows] if len(lines) >= 2: blocks.append(make_block("\n".join(lines), name, loc, "table")) tables += 1 if slide.has_notes_slide and slide.notes_slide.notes_text_frame.text.strip(): texts.append("Notes: " + slide.notes_slide.notes_text_frame.text.strip()) if texts: blocks.append(make_block("\n".join(texts), name, loc, "text")) return blocks, {"pages": len(prs.slides), "tables": tables, "notes": ["Pictures and charts on slides are not read."]} def df_to_rows(df): df = df.dropna(how="all").dropna(axis=1, how="all").fillna("") headers = [str(c) for c in df.columns] lines = [] for _, row in df.iterrows(): cells = [] for h, v in zip(headers, row): v = str(v).strip() if v: cells.append(v if h.startswith("Unnamed") else f"{h}: {v}") if cells: lines.append(" | ".join(cells)) return "\n".join(lines) def extract_spreadsheet(name, data): blocks = [] if name.lower().endswith(".csv"): df = None for enc in ("utf-8-sig", "cp1256", "latin-1"): try: df = pd.read_csv(io.BytesIO(data), encoding=enc) break except Exception: continue sheets = {"": df} if df is not None else {} else: sheets = pd.read_excel(io.BytesIO(data), sheet_name=None) for sheet, df in sheets.items(): text = df_to_rows(df) if text: blocks.append(make_block(text, name, f"sheet {sheet}" if sheet else None, "rows")) return blocks, {"pages": len(sheets), "tables": len(blocks), "notes": []} def extract_text_file(name, data): text = data.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore") blocks = [make_block(text, name, None, "text")] if text.strip() else [] return blocks, {"pages": 1, "tables": 0, "notes": []} @st.cache_data(show_spinner=False) def extract_file(name, data, version=EXTRACT_VERSION): lower = name.lower() if lower.endswith(".pdf"): return extract_pdf(name, data) if lower.endswith(".docx"): return extract_docx(name, data) if lower.endswith(".pptx"): return extract_pptx(name, data) if lower.endswith((".xlsx", ".csv")): return extract_spreadsheet(name, data) if lower.endswith((".txt", ".md")): return extract_text_file(name, data) return [], {"pages": 0, "tables": 0, "notes": ["Unsupported file type."]} # ========================= CHUNKING ========================= def make_chunk(block, text): return {"text": text, "source": block["source"], "loc": block["loc"], "kind": block["kind"]} def chunk_blocks(blocks): chunks = [] step = max(1, CHUNK_WORDS - CHUNK_OVERLAP) for b in blocks: if b["kind"] in ("table", "rows"): lines = [l for l in b["text"].split("\n") if l.strip()] header = lines[0] if b["kind"] == "table" else None body = lines[1:] if b["kind"] == "table" else lines group, wc = [], 0 for line in body: lw = len(line.split()) if group and wc + lw > TABLE_CHUNK_WORDS: chunks.append(make_chunk(b, "\n".join(([header] if header else []) + group))) group, wc = [], 0 group.append(line) wc += lw if group: chunks.append(make_chunk(b, "\n".join(([header] if header else []) + group))) else: words = b["text"].split() for i in range(0, len(words), step): piece = " ".join(words[i:i + CHUNK_WORDS]) if len(piece.strip()) > 20: chunks.append(make_chunk(b, piece)) return chunks def cite_label(c): return f"{c['source']}, {c['loc']}" if c["loc"] else c["source"] # ========================= INDEX + HYBRID SEARCH ========================= @st.cache_resource(show_spinner="Loading embedding model...") def load_embedder(): return SentenceTransformer(EMBED_MODEL_NAME, cache_folder="/tmp/model_cache", device="cpu") def build_index(chunks, embedder): texts = [light_clean(c["text"]) for c in chunks] emb = embedder.encode(texts, batch_size=32, convert_to_numpy=True, normalize_embeddings=True, show_progress_bar=False).astype("float32") faiss_index = faiss.IndexFlatIP(emb.shape[1]) # inner product on normalized vectors = cosine faiss_index.add(emb) bm25 = BM25Okapi([tokenize(c["text"]) for c in chunks]) return {"chunks": chunks, "faiss": faiss_index, "bm25": bm25} def hybrid_search(query, index, embedder, top_k, w_sem): """FAISS semantic + BM25, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion.""" q_vec = embedder.encode([light_clean(query)], convert_to_numpy=True, normalize_embeddings=True, show_progress_bar=False).astype("float32") n = len(index["chunks"]) pool = min(n, top_k * 4) scores, ids = index["faiss"].search(q_vec, pool) sem_scores = {int(i): float(s) for i, s in zip(ids[0], scores[0]) if i >= 0} best_sem = float(scores[0][0]) bm = index["bm25"].get_scores(tokenize(query)) bm_rank = np.argsort(-bm)[:pool] fused = defaultdict(float) for r, i in enumerate(ids[0]): if i >= 0: fused[int(i)] += w_sem / (RRF_K + r + 1) for r, i in enumerate(bm_rank): if bm[i] > 0: fused[int(i)] += (1 - w_sem) / (RRF_K + r + 1) top = sorted(fused, key=fused.get, reverse=True)[:top_k] return top, best_sem, sem_scores, bm # ========================= GENERATION ========================= def generate_answer(llm, query, retrieved): context = "\n\n---\n\n".join(f"[{cite_label(c)}]\n{c['text']}" for c in retrieved) prompt = f"""You are a document assistant. Answer ONLY from the context below. - Answer in the same language as the question. - After each fact, cite its source exactly as shown in the context, e.g. [file, p.N]. - Table rows use " | " between cells; the first line of a table chunk is its header. - If the context does not contain the answer, say it was not found in the documents and suggest contacting the document owner. Do not guess. Context: {context} Question: {query} Answer:""" return llm.invoke(prompt).content # ========================= STREAMLIT APP ========================= st.set_page_config(page_title="HR Policies / Benefits Assistant", page_icon="📚", layout="wide") HEADER_IMAGE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "HR_policies.png") if os.path.exists(HEADER_IMAGE): st.image(HEADER_IMAGE, use_container_width=True) else: # image missing from the repo: fall back to a text title st.title("HR Policies / Benefits Assistant") st.caption("Find information about company policies, benefits, leaves, and employee support.") with st.sidebar: st.header("Settings") top_k = st.slider("Chunks sent to the LLM (Top-K)", 3, 10, 5) w_sem = st.slider("Semantic weight (BM25 gets the rest)", 0.0, 1.0, 0.6, 0.1) min_rel = st.slider("Minimum relevance to answer", 0.0, 0.8, 0.25, 0.05, help="If the best semantic match is below this, the app says 'not found' instead of guessing.") with st.expander("OCR diagnostics"): tbin = shutil.which("tesseract") st.write(f"tesseract binary: `{tbin or 'NOT FOUND (using PyMuPDF OCR fallback)'}`") if tbin: try: _set_tessdata() out = subprocess.run(["tesseract", "--list-langs"], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=20) st.code((out.stdout or out.stderr).strip()) except Exception as e: st.write(f"Could not query Tesseract: {e}") st.write(f"TESSDATA_PREFIX: `{os.environ.get('TESSDATA_PREFIX', 'unset')}`") st.caption(f"Extraction version: {EXTRACT_VERSION}") if st.button("Clear extraction cache"): st.cache_data.clear() st.session_state.pop("signature", None) st.rerun() embedder = load_embedder() groq_key = None try: groq_key = st.secrets.get("GROQ_API_KEY") except Exception: pass groq_key = groq_key or os.getenv("GROQ_API_KEY") if not groq_key: st.error("GROQ_API_KEY not found. Add it to Streamlit secrets or environment variables.") st.stop() llm = ChatGroq(temperature=0.1, model_name=LLM_MODEL_NAME, groq_api_key=groq_key) uploaded_files = st.file_uploader( "Upload documents", type=["pdf", "docx", "pptx", "xlsx", "csv", "txt", "md"], accept_multiple_files=True, ) # Rebuild the index whenever the set of uploaded files changes if uploaded_files: signature = tuple(sorted((f.name, f.size) for f in uploaded_files)) if st.session_state.get("signature") != signature: all_blocks, report = [], {} with st.spinner("Reading documents (scanned pages are OCR'd and may take a while)..."): for f in uploaded_files: try: blocks, stats = extract_file(f.name, f.getvalue(), EXTRACT_VERSION) except Exception as e: blocks, stats = [], {"pages": 0, "tables": 0, "notes": [f"Could not read file: {e}"]} all_blocks.extend(blocks) report[f.name] = stats chunks = chunk_blocks(all_blocks) if not chunks: st.error("No readable text found in the uploaded files.") st.session_state.pop("index", None) st.session_state.pop("signature", None) with st.expander("Extraction report", expanded=True): for fname, s in report.items(): for note in s["notes"]: st.write(f"**{fname}**: {note}") st.stop() with st.spinner("Building FAISS + BM25 indexes..."): st.session_state.index = build_index(chunks, embedder) st.session_state.report = report st.session_state.signature = signature st.success(f"Indexed {len(st.session_state.index['chunks'])} chunks from {len(uploaded_files)} file(s)") with st.expander("📋 Extraction report"): for fname, s in st.session_state.report.items(): st.write(f"**{fname}**: {s['pages']} page(s)/sheet(s), {s['tables']} table(s)") for note in s["notes"]: st.caption(f"⚠️ {note}") else: st.session_state.pop("index", None) st.session_state.pop("signature", None) # Query form: the LLM is only called when the user presses the button with st.form("ask"): query = st.text_input("Ask a question about your documents (Arabic or English):") submitted = st.form_submit_button("Ask") if submitted and query.strip(): index = st.session_state.get("index") if not index: st.warning("Upload at least one document first.") else: top, best_sem, sem_scores, bm = hybrid_search(query, index, embedder, top_k, w_sem) retrieved = [index["chunks"][i] for i in top] st.subheader("Answer") if not retrieved or best_sem < min_rel: st.info("Not found in the uploaded documents.") else: with st.spinner("Generating answer..."): st.write(generate_answer(llm, query, retrieved)) with st.expander("🔍 Retrieved chunks"): for rank, i in enumerate(top, 1): c = index["chunks"][i] sem_txt = f"{sem_scores[i]:.2f}" if i in sem_scores else "n/a" st.markdown(f"**{rank}. {cite_label(c)}** ({c['kind']}) · semantic {sem_txt} · BM25 {bm[i]:.2f}") st.text(c["text"]) else: st.info("Upload documents, type a question, and press Ask.")