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Configuration Reference

This page documents all configuration types and their defaults across all languages.

AccelerationConfig

Hardware acceleration configuration for ONNX Runtime models.

Controls which execution provider (CPU, CoreML, CUDA, TensorRT) is used for inference in layout detection and embedding generation.

Field Type Default Description
provider ExecutionProviderType ExecutionProviderType.AUTO Execution provider to use for ONNX inference.
device_id int GPU device ID (for CUDA/TensorRT). Ignored for CPU/CoreML/Auto.

CaptioningConfig

Configuration for the VLM captioning post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
llm LlmConfig LLM configuration used for the VLM call.
prompt str \| None None Optional custom caption prompt. None uses the default RegionKind.Caption prompt that ships with crate.llm.region_extractor.
min_image_area int serde(default = "default_min_image_area") Skip images whose width * height is below this threshold (in pixels). Default 1_000 filters out icons and decorations.

PageClassificationConfig

Configuration for the page-classification post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
prompt_template str \| None None Minijinja prompt template. Receives {{ labels }} (joined list), {{ page_text }} and {{ multi_label }} variables. None lets the backend pick a sensible default.
labels list\[str\] The set of labels the classifier may emit. Must contain at least one entry.
multi_label bool /* serde(default) */ Allow multiple labels per page. Single-label mode returns at most one label.
llm LlmConfig LLM configuration used for classification.

ContentFilterConfig

Cross-extractor content filtering configuration.

Controls whether "furniture" content (headers, footers, page numbers, watermarks, repeating text) is included in or stripped from extraction results. Applies across all extractors (PDF, DOCX, RTF, ODT, HTML, etc.) with format-specific implementation.

When None on ExtractionConfig, each extractor uses its current default behavior unchanged.

Field Type Default Description
include_headers bool False Include running headers in extraction output. - PDF: Disables top-margin furniture stripping and prevents the layout model from treating PageHeader-classified regions as furniture. - DOCX: Includes document headers in text output. - RTF/ODT: Headers already included; this is a no-op when true. - HTML/EPUB: Keeps <header> element content. Default: False (headers are stripped or excluded).
include_footers bool False Include running footers in extraction output. - PDF: Disables bottom-margin furniture stripping and prevents the layout model from treating PageFooter-classified regions as furniture. - DOCX: Includes document footers in text output. - RTF/ODT: Footers already included; this is a no-op when true. - HTML/EPUB: Keeps <footer> element content. Default: False (footers are stripped or excluded).
strip_repeating_text bool True Enable the heuristic cross-page repeating text detector. When True (default), text that repeats verbatim across a supermajority of pages is classified as furniture and stripped. Disable this if brand names or repeated headings are being incorrectly removed by the heuristic. Note: when a layout-detection model is active, the model may independently classify page-header / page-footer regions as furniture on a per-page basis. To preserve those regions, set include_headers = true, include_footers = true, or both, in addition to disabling this flag. Primarily affects PDF extraction. Default: True.
include_watermarks bool False Include watermark text in extraction output. - PDF: Keeps watermark artifacts and arXiv identifiers. - Other formats: No effect currently. Default: False (watermarks are stripped).

EmailConfig

Configuration for email extraction.

Field Type Default Description
msg_fallback_codepage int \| None None Windows codepage number to use when an MSG file contains no codepage property. Defaults to None, which falls back to windows-1252. If an unrecognized or invalid codepage number is supplied (including 0), the behavior silently falls back to windows-1252 — the same as when the MSG file itself contains an unrecognized codepage. No error or warning is emitted. Users should verify output when supplying unusual values. Common values: - 1250: Central European (Polish, Czech, Hungarian, etc.) - 1251: Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, etc.) - 1252: Western European (default) - 1253: Greek - 1254: Turkish - 1255: Hebrew - 1256: Arabic - 932: Japanese (Shift-JIS) - 936: Simplified Chinese (GBK)

ExtractionConfig

Main extraction configuration.

This struct contains all configuration options for the extraction process. It can be loaded from TOML, YAML, or JSON files, or created programmatically.

Field Type Default Description
use_cache bool True Enable caching of extraction results
enable_quality_processing bool True Enable quality post-processing
ocr OcrConfig \| None None OCR configuration (None = OCR disabled)
force_ocr bool False Force OCR even for searchable PDFs
force_ocr_pages list\[int\] \| None None Force OCR on specific pages only (1-indexed page numbers, must be >= 1). When set, only the listed pages are OCR'd regardless of text layer quality. Unlisted pages use native text extraction. Ignored when force_ocr is True. Only applies to PDF documents. Duplicates are automatically deduplicated. An ocr config is recommended for backend/language selection; defaults are used if absent.
disable_ocr bool False Disable OCR entirely, even for images. When True, OCR is skipped for all document types. Images return metadata only (dimensions, format, EXIF) without text extraction. PDFs use only native text extraction without OCR fallback. Cannot be True simultaneously with force_ocr. Added in v4.7.0.
chunking ChunkingConfig \| None None Text chunking configuration (None = chunking disabled)
content_filter ContentFilterConfig \| None None Content filtering configuration (None = use extractor defaults). Controls whether document "furniture" (headers, footers, watermarks, repeating text) is included in or stripped from extraction results. See ContentFilterConfig for per-field documentation.
images ImageExtractionConfig \| None None Image extraction configuration (None = no image extraction)
pdf_options PdfConfig \| None None PDF-specific options (None = use defaults)
token_reduction TokenReductionOptions \| None None Token reduction configuration (None = no token reduction)
language_detection LanguageDetectionConfig \| None None Language detection configuration (None = no language detection)
pages PageConfig \| None None Page extraction configuration (None = no page tracking)
keywords KeywordConfig \| None None Keyword extraction configuration (None = no keyword extraction)
postprocessor PostProcessorConfig \| None None Post-processor configuration (None = use defaults)
html_output HtmlOutputConfig \| None None Styled HTML output configuration. When set alongside output_format = OutputFormat.Html, the extraction pipeline uses StyledHtmlRenderer which emits stable kb-* CSS class hooks on every structural element and optionally embeds theme CSS or user-supplied CSS in a <style> block. When None, the existing plain comrak-based HTML renderer is used.
extraction_timeout_secs int \| None None Default per-file timeout in seconds for batch extraction. When set, each file in a batch will be canceled after this duration unless overridden by FileExtractionConfig.timeout_secs. Defaults to Some(60) to prevent pathological files (e.g. deeply nested archives, documents with millions of cells) from running indefinitely and exhausting caller resources. Set to None to disable the timeout for trusted input or long-running workloads.
max_concurrent_extractions int \| None None Maximum concurrent extractions in batch operations (None = (num_cpus × 1.5).ceil()). Limits parallelism to prevent resource exhaustion when processing large batches. Defaults to (num_cpus × 1.5).ceil() when not set.
result_format ResultFormat ResultFormat.UNIFIED Result structure format Controls whether results are returned in unified format (default) with all content in the content field, or element-based format with semantic elements (for Unstructured-compatible output).
security_limits SecurityLimits \| None None Security limits for archive extraction. Controls maximum archive size, compression ratio, file count, and other security thresholds to prevent decompression bomb attacks. Also caps nesting depth, iteration count, entity / token length, total content size, and table cell count for every extraction path that ingests user-controlled bytes. When None, default limits are used.
max_embedded_file_bytes int \| None None Maximum uncompressed size in bytes for a single embedded file before recursive extraction is attempted (default: 50 MiB). Applies to embedded objects inside OOXML containers (DOCX, PPTX) and to email attachments processed via recursive extraction. Files that exceed this limit are skipped with a ProcessingWarning rather than passed to the extraction pipeline, preventing a single oversized embedded object from consuming unbounded memory or time. Set to None to disable the per-embedded-file cap (falls back to security_limits.max_archive_size as the only guard).
output_format OutputFormat OutputFormat.PLAIN Content text format (default: Plain). Controls the format of the extracted content: - Plain: Raw extracted text (default) - Markdown: Markdown formatted output - Djot: Djot markup format (requires djot feature) - Html: HTML formatted output When set to a structured format, extraction results will include formatted output. The formatted_content field may be populated when format conversion is applied.
layout LayoutDetectionConfig \| None None Layout detection configuration (None = layout detection disabled). When set, PDF pages and images are analyzed for document structure (headings, code, formulas, tables, figures, etc.) using RT-DETR models via ONNX Runtime. For PDFs, layout hints override paragraph classification in the markdown pipeline. For images, per-region OCR is performed with markdown formatting based on detected layout classes. Requires the layout-detection feature to run inference; the field is present whenever the layout-types feature is active (which includes layout-detection as well as the no-ORT target groups).
transcription TranscriptionConfig \| None None Transcription (speech-to-text) configuration for audio/video files. When set and enabled, files with audio/video MIME types (mp3, mp4, m4a, wav, webm, etc.) are routed to the Whisper-based transcription pipeline. The actual heavy dependencies are only active under the transcription feature; the field is visible under transcription-types (including on WASM and Android targets that use the no-ORT preset). Default: None (transcription disabled). This is an additive, non-breaking change.
use_layout_for_markdown bool False Run layout detection on the non-OCR PDF markdown path. When True and layout is Some(_), layout regions inform heading, table, list, and figure detection in the structure pipeline that would otherwise rely on font-clustering heuristics alone. Significantly improves SF1 (structural F1) at the cost of inference latency (~150-300ms/page CPU, ~20-50ms/page GPU). Default: False. Requires the layout-detection feature.
include_document_structure bool False Enable structured document tree output. When true, populates the document field on ExtractionResult with a hierarchical DocumentStructure containing heading-driven section nesting, table grids, content layer classification, and inline annotations. Independent of result_format — can be combined with Unified or ElementBased.
acceleration AccelerationConfig \| None None Hardware acceleration configuration for ONNX Runtime models. Controls execution provider selection for layout detection and embedding models. When None, uses platform defaults (CoreML on macOS, CUDA on Linux, CPU on Windows).
cache_namespace str \| None None Cache namespace for tenant isolation. When set, cache entries are stored under {cache_dir}/{namespace}/. Must be alphanumeric, hyphens, or underscores only (max 64 chars). Different namespaces have isolated cache spaces on the same filesystem.
cache_ttl_secs int \| None None Per-request cache TTL in seconds. Overrides the global max_age_days for this specific extraction. When 0, caching is completely skipped (no read or write). When None, the global TTL applies.
email EmailConfig \| None None Email extraction configuration (None = use defaults). Currently supports configuring the fallback codepage for MSG files that do not specify one. See EmailConfig for details.
max_archive_depth int Maximum recursion depth for archive extraction (default: 3). Set to 0 to disable recursive extraction (legacy behavior).
tree_sitter TreeSitterConfig \| None None Tree-sitter language pack configuration (None = tree-sitter disabled). When set, enables code file extraction using tree-sitter parsers. Controls grammar download behavior and code analysis options.
structured_extraction StructuredExtractionConfig \| None None Structured extraction via LLM (None = disabled). When set, the extracted document content is sent to an LLM with the provided JSON schema. The structured response is stored in ExtractionResult.structured_output.
ner NerConfig \| None None Named-entity recognition configuration. When set, the NER post-processor runs at the Middle stage and populates ExtractionResult.entities.
redaction RedactionConfig \| None None Redaction / anonymisation configuration. When set, the redaction post-processor runs at the Late stage and rewrites every textual field in ExtractionResult, emitting an audit trail in ExtractionResult.redaction_report.
summarization SummarizationConfig \| None None Summarisation configuration. When set, the summarisation post-processor runs at the Middle stage and populates ExtractionResult.summary.
translation TranslationConfig \| None None Translation configuration. When set, the translation post-processor runs at the Middle stage and populates ExtractionResult.translation.
page_classification PageClassificationConfig \| None None Per-page classification configuration. When set, the classification post-processor runs at the Middle stage and populates ExtractionResult.page_classifications.
captioning CaptioningConfig \| None None VLM captioning configuration for extracted images. When set, the captioning post-processor runs at the Middle stage and writes a caption into each ExtractedImage.caption.
qr_codes bool \| None None Enable QR-code detection in extracted images. When True, the QR post-processor runs at the Middle stage and populates ExtractedImage.qr_codes.

FileExtractionConfig

Per-file extraction configuration overrides for batch processing.

All fields are Option<T>None means "use the batch-level default." This type is used with batch_extract_files and batch_extract_bytes to allow heterogeneous extraction settings within a single batch.

Excluded Fields

The following ExtractionConfig fields are batch-level only and cannot be overridden per file:

  • max_concurrent_extractions — controls batch parallelism
  • use_cache — global caching policy
  • acceleration — shared ONNX execution provider
  • security_limits — global archive security policy
Field Type Default Description
enable_quality_processing bool \| None None Override quality post-processing for this file.
ocr OcrConfig \| None None Override OCR configuration for this file (None in the Option = use batch default).
force_ocr bool \| None None Override force OCR for this file.
force_ocr_pages list\[int\] \| None \[\] Override force OCR pages for this file (1-indexed page numbers).
disable_ocr bool \| None None Override disable OCR for this file.
chunking ChunkingConfig \| None None Override chunking configuration for this file.
content_filter ContentFilterConfig \| None None Override content filtering configuration for this file.
images ImageExtractionConfig \| None None Override image extraction configuration for this file.
pdf_options PdfConfig \| None None Override PDF options for this file.
token_reduction TokenReductionOptions \| None None Override token reduction for this file.
language_detection LanguageDetectionConfig \| None None Override language detection for this file.
pages PageConfig \| None None Override page extraction for this file.
keywords KeywordConfig \| None None Override keyword extraction for this file.
postprocessor PostProcessorConfig \| None None Override post-processor for this file.
result_format ResultFormat \| None None Override result format for this file.
output_format OutputFormat \| None None Override output content format for this file.
include_document_structure bool \| None None Override document structure output for this file.
layout LayoutDetectionConfig \| None None Override layout detection for this file.
transcription TranscriptionConfig \| None None Transcription configuration (see ExtractionConfig for docs).
timeout_secs int \| None None Override per-file extraction timeout in seconds. When set, the extraction for this file will be canceled after the specified duration. A timed-out file produces an error result without affecting other files in the batch.
tree_sitter TreeSitterConfig \| None None Override tree-sitter configuration for this file.
structured_extraction StructuredExtractionConfig \| None None Override structured extraction configuration for this file. When set, enables LLM-based structured extraction with a JSON schema for this specific file. The extracted content is sent to a VLM/LLM and the response is parsed according to the provided schema.

SvgOptions

SVG-specific configuration for the image-encode pipeline.

Applies when the source image is SVG or when the output format is set to ImageOutputFormat.Svg. Available when the svg feature is active.

Used via ImageExtractionConfig.svg.

Field Type Default Description
sanitize bool True Run SVG bytes through usvg sanitization (strips external href attributes, JavaScript event handlers, and foreignObject elements) even when the output format is Native. Defaults to True.
render_dpi float 96 Target DPI when rasterizing SVG to a pixel-based format (PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIF). The tree's viewBox is scaled by render_dpi / 96.0 before the pixel buffer is allocated. Defaults to 96.0 (1× CSS pixel density).

ImageExtractionConfig

Image extraction configuration.

Field Type Default Description
extract_images bool True Extract images from documents
target_dpi int 300 Target DPI for image normalization
max_image_dimension int 4096 Maximum dimension for images (width or height)
inject_placeholders bool True Whether to inject image reference placeholders into markdown output. When True (default), image references like !\[Image 1\](embedded:p1_i0) are appended to the markdown. Set to False to extract images as data without polluting the markdown output.
auto_adjust_dpi bool True Automatically adjust DPI based on image content
min_dpi int 72 Minimum DPI threshold
max_dpi int 600 Maximum DPI threshold
max_images_per_page int \| None None Maximum number of image objects to extract per PDF page. Some PDFs (e.g. technical diagrams stored as thousands of raster fragments) can trigger extremely long or indefinite extraction times when every image object on a dense page is decoded individually via the PDF extractor. Setting this limit causes kreuzberg to stop collecting individual images once the count per page reaches the cap and emit a warning instead. None (default) means no limit — all images are extracted.
classify bool False When True, extracted images are classified by kind and grouped into clusters where they appear to belong to one figure. Defaults to False — opt in explicitly to avoid unexpected ML overhead.
include_page_rasters bool False When True, full-page renders produced during OCR preprocessing are captured and returned as ImageKind.PageRaster entries in ExtractionResult.images. PDF + OCR only. No rasters are captured for non-PDF inputs or when the document-level OCR bypass is active (whole-document backend). When OCR is enabled and this flag is set but the active backend skips per-page rendering, a ProcessingWarning is emitted in ExtractionResult.processing_warnings. Defaults to False. Enable when downstream consumers need page thumbnails (e.g. citation previews, visual grounding).
run_ocr_on_images bool True Run OCR on extracted images and include the recognized text in the document content. When True (default) and ExtractionConfig.ocr is configured, extracted images are processed with the configured OCR backend. Set to False to extract images without OCR processing, even when OCR is enabled.
ocr_text_only bool False When True, image OCR results are rendered as plain text without the !\[...\](...) markdown placeholder. Only takes effect when run_ocr_on_images is also True.
append_ocr_text bool False When True and ocr_text_only is False, append the OCR text after the image placeholder in the rendered output.
output_format ImageOutputFormat ImageOutputFormat.NATIVE Target format for re-encoding extracted images. When set to anything other than Native, each extracted image is re-encoded to the requested format before being returned. This lets callers receive uniform output without duplicating encode logic downstream. Defaults to Native — no re-encode pass is performed and ExtractedImage.format reflects the source extractor's output.
svg SvgOptions SVG-specific knobs for the image-encode pipeline. Controls sanitization and rasterization DPI when the source or output format is SVG. Only available when the svg feature is active.
include_data_base64 bool False When True, populate ExtractedImage.data_base64 with a Base64-encoded copy of the raw image bytes. Useful for JSON-only clients that cannot efficiently parse the default integer-array serialization of data. Defaults to False; enabling it doubles the in-memory image representation for the duration of the response.

TokenReductionOptions

Token reduction configuration.

Field Type Default Description
mode str Reduction mode: "off", "light", "moderate", "aggressive", "maximum"
preserve_important_words bool True Preserve important words (capitalized, technical terms)

LanguageDetectionConfig

Language detection configuration.

Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Enable language detection
min_confidence float 0.8 Minimum confidence threshold (0.0-1.0)
detect_multiple bool False Detect multiple languages in the document

HtmlOutputConfig

Configuration for styled HTML output.

When set on html_output alongside output_format = OutputFormat.Html, the pipeline builds a StyledHtmlRenderer instead of the plain comrak-based renderer.

Field Type Default Description
css str \| None None Inline CSS string injected into the output after the theme stylesheet. Concatenated after css_file content when both are set.
css_file str \| None None Path to a CSS file loaded once at renderer construction time. Concatenated before css when both are set.
theme HtmlTheme HtmlTheme.UNSTYLED Built-in colour/typography theme. Default: HtmlTheme.Unstyled.
class_prefix str CSS class prefix applied to every emitted class name. Default: "kb-". Change this if your host application already uses classes that start with kb-.
embed_css bool True When True (default), write the resolved CSS into a <style> block immediately after the opening <div class="{prefix}doc">. Set to False to emit only the structural markup and wire up your own stylesheet targeting the kb-* class names.

LayoutDetectionConfig

Layout detection configuration.

Controls layout detection behavior in the extraction pipeline. When set on ExtractionConfig, layout detection is enabled for PDF extraction.

Field Type Default Description
confidence_threshold float \| None None Confidence threshold override (None = use model default).
apply_heuristics bool True Whether to apply postprocessing heuristics (default: true).
table_model TableModel TableModel.TATR Table structure recognition model. Controls which model is used for table cell detection within layout-detected table regions. Defaults to TableModel.Tatr.
acceleration AccelerationConfig \| None None Hardware acceleration for ONNX models (layout detection + table structure). When set, controls which execution provider (CPU, CUDA, CoreML, TensorRT) is used for inference. Defaults to None (auto-select per platform).
enable_chart_understanding bool False Route regions classified as charts to the chart-understanding OCR task. When True, layout regions detected as charts are sent to the VLM chart task (data-series/axis recovery) instead of being treated as generic image regions. Defaults to False — chart understanding is opt-in and has no effect on standard text/table extraction scores.

LlmConfig

Configuration for an LLM provider/model via liter-llm.

Each feature (VLM OCR, VLM embeddings, structured extraction) carries its own LlmConfig, allowing different providers per feature.

Field Type Default Description
model str Provider/model string using liter-llm routing format. Examples: "openai/gpt-4o", "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514", "groq/llama-3.1-70b-versatile".
api_key str \| None None API key for the provider. When None, liter-llm falls back to the provider's standard environment variable (e.g., OPENAI_API_KEY).
base_url str \| None None Custom base URL override for the provider endpoint.
timeout_secs int \| None None Request timeout in seconds (default: 60).
max_retries int \| None None Maximum retry attempts (default: 3).
temperature float \| None None Sampling temperature for generation tasks.
max_tokens int \| None None Maximum tokens to generate.

StructuredExtractionConfig

Configuration for LLM-based structured data extraction.

Sends extracted document content to a VLM with a JSON schema, returning structured data that conforms to the schema.

Field Type Default Description
schema dict\[str, Any\] JSON Schema defining the desired output structure.
schema_name str serde(default = "default_schema_name") Schema name passed to the LLM's structured output mode.
schema_description str \| None /* serde(default) */ Optional schema description for the LLM.
strict bool /* serde(default) */ Enable strict mode — output must exactly match the schema.
prompt str \| None /* serde(default) */ Custom Jinja2 extraction prompt template. When None, a default template is used. Available template variables: - {{ content }} — The extracted document text. - {{ schema }} — The JSON schema as a formatted string. - {{ schema_name }} — The schema name. - {{ schema_description }} — The schema description (may be empty).
llm LlmConfig LLM configuration for the extraction.

NerConfig

Configuration for the NER post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
backend NerBackendKind NerBackendKind.ONNX Backend that runs the entity detection.
categories list\[EntityCategory\] \[\] Entity categories to detect. Defaults to a sensible PERSON/ORG/LOCATION/EMAIL set when empty.
model str \| None None Override the default model — only used by NerBackendKind.Onnx. None lets the backend pick its pinned default (urchade/gliner_multi-v2.1 for gline-rs).
llm LlmConfig \| None None Optional LLM configuration — only used by NerBackendKind.Llm. Token usage for LLM backends is recorded in ExtractionResult.llm_usage.
custom_labels list\[str\] \[\] Arbitrary user-supplied entity labels for zero-shot detection. gline-rs natively supports zero-shot inference over caller-supplied labels — this is the primary value of GLiNER. The LLM backend also honours these labels by including them in the structured-output schema. Custom labels surface as EntityCategory.Custom in the resulting Entity stream. Use this when you need domain-specific entity types (e.g. "Treatment", "Product", "Vessel") without forking GLiNER's taxonomy.

OcrQualityThresholds

Quality thresholds for OCR fallback decisions and pipeline quality gating.

All fields default to the values that match the previous hardcoded behavior, so OcrQualityThresholds.default() preserves existing semantics exactly.

Field Type Default Description
min_total_non_whitespace int 64 Minimum total non-whitespace characters to consider text substantive.
min_non_whitespace_per_page float 32 Minimum non-whitespace characters per page on average.
min_meaningful_word_len int 4 Minimum character count for a word to be "meaningful".
min_meaningful_words int 3 Minimum count of meaningful words before text is accepted.
min_alnum_ratio float 0.3 Minimum alphanumeric ratio (non-whitespace chars that are alphanumeric).
min_garbage_chars int 5 Minimum Unicode replacement characters (U+FFFD) to trigger OCR fallback.
max_fragmented_word_ratio float 0.6 Maximum fraction of short (1-2 char) words before text is considered fragmented.
critical_fragmented_word_ratio float 0.8 Critical fragmentation threshold — triggers OCR regardless of meaningful words. Normal English text has ~20-30% short words. 80%+ is definitive garbage.
min_avg_word_length float 2 Minimum average word length. Below this with enough words indicates garbled extraction.
min_words_for_avg_length_check int 50 Minimum word count before average word length check applies.
min_consecutive_repeat_ratio float 0.08 Minimum consecutive word repetition ratio to detect column scrambling.
min_words_for_repeat_check int 50 Minimum word count before consecutive repetition check is applied.
substantive_min_chars int 100 Minimum character count for "substantive markdown" OCR skip gate.
non_text_min_chars int 20 Minimum character count for "non-text content" OCR skip gate.
alnum_ws_ratio_threshold float 0.4 Alphanumeric+whitespace ratio threshold for skip decisions.
pipeline_min_quality float 0.5 Minimum quality score (0.0-1.0) for a pipeline stage result to be accepted. If the result from a backend scores below this, try the next backend.

OcrPipelineConfig

Multi-backend OCR pipeline with quality-based fallback.

Backends are tried in priority order (highest first). After each backend produces output, quality is evaluated. If it meets quality_thresholds.pipeline_min_quality, the result is accepted. Otherwise the next backend is tried.

Field Type Default Description
stages list\[OcrPipelineStage\] Ordered list of backends to try. Sorted by priority (descending) at runtime.
quality_thresholds OcrQualityThresholds /* serde(default) */ Quality thresholds for deciding whether to accept a result or try the next backend.

OcrConfig

OCR configuration.

Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Whether OCR is enabled. Setting enabled: false is a shorthand for disable_ocr: true on the parent ExtractionConfig. Images return metadata only; PDFs use native text extraction without OCR fallback. Defaults to True. When False, all other OCR settings are ignored.
backend str OCR backend: tesseract, easyocr, paddleocr
language list\[str\] \[\] Language code(s) for OCR recognition. Accepts either a single language code ("eng") or a list (["eng", "deu"]). Defaults to ["eng"]. For Tesseract, languages are joined with "+".
tesseract_config TesseractConfig \| None None Tesseract-specific configuration (optional)
output_format OutputFormat \| None None Output format for OCR results (optional, for format conversion)
paddle_ocr_config dict\[str, Any\] \| None None PaddleOCR-specific configuration (optional, JSON passthrough)
backend_options dict\[str, Any\] \| None None Arbitrary per-call options passed through to the backend unchanged. Custom OCR backends and built-in backends that support runtime tuning can read this value and deserialize the keys they care about. Keys unknown to the backend are silently ignored. This is the recommended extension point for per-call parameters that are not covered by the typed fields above (e.g. mode switching, preprocessing flags, inference batch size). Scope: when pipeline is None, this value is propagated to the primary stage of the auto-constructed pipeline. When pipeline is explicitly set, this field has no effect — the caller must set OcrPipelineStage.backend_options directly on the relevant stage(s) instead. Example: json { "mode": "fast", "enable_layout": true, "timeout_ms": 5000 }
element_config OcrElementConfig \| None None OCR element extraction configuration
quality_thresholds OcrQualityThresholds \| None None Quality thresholds for the native-text-to-OCR fallback decision. When None, uses compiled defaults (matching previous hardcoded behavior).
pipeline OcrPipelineConfig \| None None Multi-backend OCR pipeline configuration. When set, enables weighted fallback across multiple OCR backends based on output quality. When None, uses the single backend field (same as today).
auto_rotate bool False Enable automatic page rotation based on orientation detection. When enabled, uses Tesseract's DetectOrientationScript() to detect page orientation (0/90/180/270 degrees) before OCR. If the page is rotated with high confidence, the image is corrected before recognition. This is critical for handling rotated scanned documents.
vlm_fallback VlmFallbackPolicy VlmFallbackPolicy.DISABLED Ergonomic VLM fallback policy. When set to anything other than VlmFallbackPolicy.Disabled and OcrConfig.pipeline is None, a multi-stage pipeline is synthesised automatically: - VlmFallbackPolicy.OnLowQuality\[classical_stage, vlm_stage\] with the quality_threshold mapped onto OcrQualityThresholds.pipeline_min_quality. - VlmFallbackPolicy.Always\[vlm_stage\] only. Requires OcrConfig.vlm_config to be Some when not Disabled. When OcrConfig.pipeline is explicitly set, this field is ignored.
vlm_config LlmConfig \| None None VLM (Vision Language Model) OCR configuration. Required when backend is "vlm" or when vlm_fallback is not VlmFallbackPolicy.Disabled. Uses liter-llm to send page images to a vision model for text extraction.
vlm_prompt str \| None None Custom Jinja2 prompt template for VLM OCR. When None, uses the default template. Available variables: - {{ language }} — The document language code (e.g., "eng", "deu").
acceleration AccelerationConfig \| None None Hardware acceleration for ONNX Runtime models (e.g. PaddleOCR, layout detection). Not user-configurable via config files — injected at runtime from ExtractionConfig.acceleration before each process_image call.
tessdata_bytes dict\[str, bytes\] \| None None Caller-supplied Tesseract traineddata bytes per language code. Primary use case is the WASM build, which has no filesystem and cannot download tessdata at runtime. Native builds typically rely on TessdataManager and ignore this field. When present, the WASM Tesseract backend prefers these bytes over its compile-time-bundled English data. Skipped by serde to keep config files small — supply via the typed API at runtime.
tessdata_path str \| None None Runtime override for tessdata directory path. When set, uses this path as the highest-priority tessdata location, bypassing environment variables and cache directories. Useful for embedding pre-installed tessdata in applications. When None, uses the standard resolution chain: TESSDATA_PREFIX env, cache dir, system paths.

PageConfig

Page extraction and tracking configuration.

Controls how pages are extracted, tracked, and represented in the extraction results. When None, page tracking is disabled.

Page range tracking in chunk metadata (first_page/last_page) is automatically enabled when page boundaries are available and chunking is configured.

Field Type Default Description
extract_pages bool False Extract pages as separate array (ExtractionResult.pages)
insert_page_markers bool False Insert page markers in main content string
marker_format str "<!-- PAGE {page_num} -->" Page marker format (use {page_num} placeholder) Default: "\n\n\n\n"

PdfConfig

PDF-specific configuration.

Field Type Default Description
extract_images bool False Extract images from PDF
extract_tables bool True Extract tables from PDF. When True (default), runs pdf_oxide's native grid detector and, if it finds nothing, falls back to the heuristic text-layer reconstruction in pdf.oxide.table.extract_tables_heuristic. Set to False to skip both passes — tables will then be empty in the result.
passwords list\[str\] \| None None List of passwords to try when opening encrypted PDFs
extract_metadata bool True Extract PDF metadata
hierarchy HierarchyConfig \| None None Hierarchy extraction configuration (None = hierarchy extraction disabled)
extract_annotations bool False Extract PDF annotations (text notes, highlights, links, stamps). Default: false
top_margin_fraction float \| None None Top margin fraction (0.0–1.0) of page height to exclude headers/running heads. Default: 0.06 (6%)
bottom_margin_fraction float \| None None Bottom margin fraction (0.0–1.0) of page height to exclude footers/page numbers. Default: 0.05 (5%)
allow_single_column_tables bool False Allow single-column pseudo tables in extraction results. By default, tables with fewer than 2 columns (layout-guided) or 3 columns (heuristic) are rejected. When True, the minimum column count is relaxed to 1, allowing single-column structured data (glossaries, itemized lists) to be emitted as tables. Other quality filters (density, sparsity, prose detection) still apply.
ocr_inline_images bool False Perform OCR on inline images extracted from PDF pages and attach the recognized text to each ExtractedImage.ocr_result. Requires Tesseract to be available; if ExtractionConfig.ocr is None the extractor falls back to TesseractConfig.default(). Per-image failures degrade gracefully (the image is returned without OCR text rather than failing the whole extraction). Default: False.
extract_form_fields bool True Extract AcroForm and XFA form fields into ExtractionResult.form_fields. When True (default), reads the document's interactive form structure (field names, types, values, widget geometry). Cheap and strictly additive — non-form PDFs simply yield an empty list. Set to False to skip the form pass entirely.
reading_order bool False Reorder extracted text by layout-detected reading order. When True, projects text spans onto layout-detected regions, performs column detection, and emits spans in natural reading order (important for multi-column academic PDFs). Requires the layout-detection feature; has no effect without it. Defaults to False.

HierarchyConfig

Hierarchy extraction configuration for PDF text structure analysis.

Enables extraction of document hierarchy levels (H1-H6) based on font size clustering and semantic analysis. When enabled, hierarchical blocks are included in page content.

Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Enable hierarchy extraction
k_clusters int 3 Number of font size clusters to use for hierarchy levels (1-7) Default: 6, which provides H1-H6 heading levels with body text. Larger values create more fine-grained hierarchy levels.
include_bbox bool True Include bounding box information in hierarchy blocks
ocr_coverage_threshold float \| None None OCR coverage threshold for smart OCR triggering (0.0-1.0) Determines when OCR should be triggered based on text block coverage. OCR is triggered when text blocks cover less than this fraction of the page. Default: 0.5 (trigger OCR if less than 50% of page has text)

PostProcessorConfig

Post-processor configuration.

Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Enable post-processors
enabled_processors list\[str\] \| None None Whitelist of processor names to run (None = all enabled)
disabled_processors list\[str\] \| None None Blacklist of processor names to skip (None = none disabled)
enabled_set list\[str\] \| None None Pre-computed AHashSet for O(1) enabled processor lookup
disabled_set list\[str\] \| None None Pre-computed AHashSet for O(1) disabled processor lookup

ChunkingConfig

Chunking configuration.

Configures text chunking for document content, including chunk size, overlap, trimming behavior, and optional embeddings.

Use ..the default constructor when constructing to allow for future field additions:

Field Type Default Description
max_characters int 1000 Maximum size per chunk (in units determined by sizing). When sizing is Characters (default), this is the max character count. When using token-based sizing, this is the max token count. Default: 1000
overlap int 200 Overlap between chunks (in units determined by sizing). Default: 200
trim bool True Whether to trim whitespace from chunk boundaries. Default: true
chunker_type ChunkerType ChunkerType.TEXT Type of chunker to use (Text or Markdown). Default: Text
embedding EmbeddingConfig \| None None Optional embedding configuration for chunk embeddings.
preset str \| None None Use a preset configuration (overrides individual settings if provided).
sizing ChunkSizing ChunkSizing.CHARACTERS How to measure chunk size. Default: Characters (Unicode character count). Enable chunking-tiktoken or chunking-tokenizers features for token-based sizing.
prepend_heading_context bool False When True and chunker_type is Markdown, prepend the heading hierarchy path (e.g. "# Title > ## Section\n\n") to each chunk's content string. This is useful for RAG pipelines where each chunk needs self-contained context about its position in the document structure. Default: False
topic_threshold float \| None None Optional cosine similarity threshold for semantic topic boundary detection. Only used when chunker_type is Semantic and an EmbeddingConfig is provided. You almost never need to set this. When omitted, defaults to 0.75 which works well for most documents. Lower values detect more topic boundaries (more, smaller chunks); higher values detect fewer. Range: 0.0..=1.0.
table_chunking TableChunkingMode TableChunkingMode.SPLIT How to handle markdown tables that exceed the chunk size limit. Only applies when chunker_type is Markdown. - Split (default) — tables are split at row boundaries; continuation chunks do not repeat the header. - RepeatHeader — the table header row and separator are prepended to every continuation chunk so each chunk is self-contained. Default: Split

EmbeddingConfig

Embedding configuration for text chunks.

Configures embedding generation using ONNX models via the vendored embedding engine. Requires the embeddings feature to be enabled.

Field Type Default Description
model EmbeddingModelType EmbeddingModelType.PRESET The embedding model to use (defaults to "balanced" preset if not specified)
normalize bool True Whether to normalize embedding vectors (recommended for cosine similarity)
batch_size int 32 Batch size for embedding generation
show_download_progress bool False Show model download progress
cache_dir str \| None None Custom cache directory for model files Defaults to ~/.cache/kreuzberg/embeddings/ if not specified. Allows full customization of model download location.
acceleration AccelerationConfig \| None None Hardware acceleration for the embedding ONNX model. When set, controls which execution provider (CPU, CUDA, CoreML, TensorRT) is used for inference. Defaults to None (auto-select per platform).
max_embed_duration_secs int \| None None Maximum wall-clock duration (in seconds) for a single embed() call when using EmbeddingModelType.Plugin. Applies only to the in-process plugin path — protects against hung host-language backends (e.g. a Python callback deadlocked on the GIL, a model stuck on CUDA OOM retries, etc.). On timeout, the dispatcher returns Plugin instead of blocking forever. None disables the timeout. The default (60 seconds) is conservative for common in-process inference; increase for large batches on slow hardware.

RedactionConfig

Configuration for the redaction post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
categories list\[PiiCategory\] \[\] Categories to redact. Empty means "every category supported by the engine."
strategy RedactionStrategy RedactionStrategy.MASK Strategy applied to every match.
ner NerConfig \| None None Optional NER backend — required to redact PERSON / ORGANIZATION / LOCATION categories (the pure-Rust pattern engine only covers regex-detectable PII).
preserve_offsets bool True When True, chunk byte ranges are kept consistent with the rewritten content by adjusting byte_start / byte_end after replacement. When False, chunk byte ranges still refer to the original content offsets — useful when downstream consumers want to map findings back to the original document.
custom_terms list\[RedactionTerm\] \[\] Arbitrary user-supplied literal terms to redact. Each term is treated as a regex hit against the document, surfacing as PiiCategory.Custom(label) in RedactionFinding where label is the per-term label (defaulting to the literal value itself). Case-insensitive by default; set RedactionTerm.case_sensitive for exact match. Use this when you need to redact tenant-specific tokens (employee IDs, project codes, internal product names) without writing a custom plugin.
custom_patterns list\[RedactionPattern\] \[\] Arbitrary user-supplied regex patterns to redact. Same surfacing semantics as custom_terms: each hit becomes a PiiCategory.Custom(label) finding. Patterns are validated at config-construction time via RedactionConfig.validate.

RerankerConfig

Configuration for the reranking pipeline.

Controls which model to use, how many results to return, and download/cache behavior for local ONNX models.

Since v5.0.

Field Type Default Description
model RerankerModelType RerankerModelType.PRESET The reranker model to use (defaults to "balanced" preset if not specified).
top_k int \| None None Return at most this many documents. None returns all. Applied after sorting by score, so the highest-scoring documents are kept.
batch_size int 32 Batch size for local ONNX cross-encoder inference.
show_download_progress bool False Show model download progress (local ONNX path only).
cache_dir str \| None None Custom cache directory for model files. Defaults to ~/.cache/kreuzberg/rerankers/ if not specified.
acceleration AccelerationConfig \| None None Hardware acceleration for the reranker ONNX model. Controls which execution provider (CPU, CUDA, CoreML, TensorRT) is used for local inference. Defaults to None (auto-select per platform).
max_rerank_duration_secs int \| None None Maximum wall-clock duration (in seconds) for a single rerank() call when using RerankerModelType.Plugin. Applies only to the in-process plugin path — protects against hung host-language backends. On timeout, the dispatcher returns Plugin instead of blocking forever. None disables the timeout. The default (60 seconds) is conservative for common in-process inference; increase for large document sets on slow hardware.

SummarizationConfig

Configuration for the summarisation post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
strategy SummaryStrategy SummaryStrategy.EXTRACTIVE Summarisation strategy.
max_tokens int \| None None Maximum summary length in tokens. None lets the backend pick a default.
llm LlmConfig \| None None LLM configuration for the abstractive backend. Ignored when strategy = Extractive. Required when strategy = Abstractive.

TranscriptionConfig

Configuration for audio/video transcription (speech-to-text).

When present and enabled, Kreuzberg will route audio and video files (mp3, mp4, m4a, wav, webm, etc.) through the transcription pipeline.

The heavy dependencies (ORT, hf-hub, symphonia) are only pulled when the transcription feature is enabled. The config struct itself is available under transcription-types so that ExtractionConfig round-trips on all targets.

All fields have sensible defaults. The recommended starting point is:

[extraction.transcription]
enabled = true
model = "tiny"
Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Master switch. When false the block is ignored and audio files fall back to the normal "unsupported format" path.
model WhisperModel WhisperModel.TINY Whisper model size to use. Smaller = faster + lower memory. tiny is the pragmatic default for first-time users and CI.
language str \| None None Optional language hint (ISO-639-1 code, e.g. "en", "de"). When None (default), the current engine falls back to English. For deterministic production output, always set this explicitly.
timestamps bool False Whether to request segment-level timestamps. Accepted for forward compatibility. The current engine always uses <\|notimestamps\|> and does not emit segment metadata yet.
max_duration_ms int \| None None Hard safety limit on input duration (milliseconds). Files longer than this are rejected after decode, before model work. Default: 30 minutes. Set to None to disable (not recommended for untrusted input).
max_bytes int \| None None Hard safety limit on input size (bytes). Default: 512 MiB. Protects against pathological or malicious uploads.
timeout_ms int \| None None Wall-clock timeout for the entire transcription operation (ms). Default: 10 minutes. Reserved for timeout enforcement; the current extractor does not enforce this field yet.
model_cache_dir str \| None None Override the directory used for Whisper model cache. When None, uses the centralized resolver: KREUZBERG_CACHE_DIR/whisper or the platform default (~/.cache/kreuzberg/whisper on Linux, etc.).
allow_network bool True Allow network access to download models from Hugging Face Hub. When False, only previously cached models may be used. Useful for air-gapped or fully offline deployments.
verify_hash bool True Request SHA256 verification of downloaded model files. Reserved for the checksum table follow-up. The current resolver logs a warning and treats this as a no-op.

TranslationConfig

Configuration for the translation post-processor.

Field Type Default Description
target_lang str BCP-47 language tag for the target language (e.g. "de", "fr-CA").
source_lang str \| None None Optional explicit source language. None asks the backend to auto-detect.
preserve_markup bool /* serde(default) */ Translate the formatted (Markdown/HTML) rendition alongside plain text when formatted_content is present.
llm LlmConfig LLM configuration used for translation.

TreeSitterConfig

Configuration for tree-sitter language pack integration.

Controls grammar download behavior and code analysis options.

Example (TOML)

[tree_sitter]
languages = ["python", "rust"]
groups = ["web"]

[tree_sitter.process]
structure = true
comments = true
docstrings = true
Field Type Default Description
enabled bool True Enable code intelligence processing (default: true). When False, tree-sitter analysis is completely skipped even if the config section is present.
cache_dir str \| None None Custom cache directory for downloaded grammars. When None, uses the default: ~/.cache/tree-sitter-language-pack/v{version}/libs/.
languages list\[str\] \| None None Languages to pre-download on init (e.g., \["python", "rust"\]).
groups list\[str\] \| None None Language groups to pre-download (e.g., \["web", "systems", "scripting"\]).
process TreeSitterProcessConfig Processing options for code analysis.

TreeSitterProcessConfig

Processing options for tree-sitter code analysis.

Controls which analysis features are enabled when extracting code files.

Field Type Default Description
structure bool True Extract structural items (functions, classes, structs, etc.). Default: true.
imports bool True Extract import statements. Default: true.
exports bool True Extract export statements. Default: true.
comments bool False Extract comments. Default: false.
docstrings bool False Extract docstrings. Default: false.
symbols bool False Extract symbol definitions. Default: false.
diagnostics bool False Include parse diagnostics. Default: false.
chunk_max_size int \| None None Maximum chunk size in bytes. None disables chunking.
content_mode CodeContentMode CodeContentMode.CHUNKS Content rendering mode for code extraction.

ServerConfig

API server configuration.

This struct holds all configuration options for the Kreuzberg API server, including host/port settings, CORS configuration, and upload limits.

Defaults

  • host: "127.0.0.1" (localhost only)
  • port: 8000
  • cors_origins: empty listtor (allows all origins)
  • max_request_body_bytes: 104_857_600 (100 MB)
  • max_multipart_field_bytes: 104_857_600 (100 MB)
Field Type Default Description
host str Server host address (e.g., "127.0.0.1", "0.0.0.0")
port int Server port number
cors_origins list\[str\] \[\] CORS allowed origins. Empty vector means allow all origins. If this is an empty listtor, the server will accept requests from any origin. If populated with specific origins (e.g., "<https://example.com">), only those origins will be allowed.
max_request_body_bytes int Maximum size of request body in bytes (default: 100 MB)
max_multipart_field_bytes int Maximum size of multipart fields in bytes (default: 100 MB)

DocxAppProperties

Application properties from docProps/app.xml for DOCX

Contains Word-specific document statistics and metadata.

Field Type Default Description
application str \| None None Application name (e.g., "Microsoft Office Word")
app_version str \| None None Application version
template str \| None None Template filename
total_time int \| None None Total editing time in minutes
pages int \| None None Number of pages
words int \| None None Number of words
characters int \| None None Number of characters (excluding spaces)
characters_with_spaces int \| None None Number of characters (including spaces)
lines int \| None None Number of lines
paragraphs int \| None None Number of paragraphs
company str \| None None Company name
doc_security int \| None None Document security level
scale_crop bool \| None None Scale crop flag
links_up_to_date bool \| None None Links up to date flag
shared_doc bool \| None None Shared document flag
hyperlinks_changed bool \| None None Hyperlinks changed flag

XlsxAppProperties

Application properties from docProps/app.xml for XLSX

Contains Excel-specific document metadata.

Field Type Default Description
application str \| None None Application name (e.g., "Microsoft Excel")
app_version str \| None None Application version
doc_security int \| None None Document security level
scale_crop bool \| None None Scale crop flag
links_up_to_date bool \| None None Links up to date flag
shared_doc bool \| None None Shared document flag
hyperlinks_changed bool \| None None Hyperlinks changed flag
company str \| None None Company name
worksheet_names list\[str\] \[\] Worksheet names

PptxAppProperties

Application properties from docProps/app.xml for PPTX

Contains PowerPoint-specific document metadata.

Field Type Default Description
application str \| None None Application name (e.g., "Microsoft Office PowerPoint")
app_version str \| None None Application version
total_time int \| None None Total editing time in minutes
company str \| None None Company name
doc_security int \| None None Document security level
scale_crop bool \| None None Scale crop flag
links_up_to_date bool \| None None Links up to date flag
shared_doc bool \| None None Shared document flag
hyperlinks_changed bool \| None None Hyperlinks changed flag
slides int \| None None Number of slides
notes int \| None None Number of notes
hidden_slides int \| None None Number of hidden slides
multimedia_clips int \| None None Number of multimedia clips
presentation_format str \| None None Presentation format (e.g., "Widescreen", "Standard")
slide_titles list\[str\] \[\] Slide titles

CoreProperties

Dublin Core metadata from docProps/core.xml

Contains standard metadata fields defined by the Dublin Core standard and Office-specific extensions.

Field Type Default Description
title str \| None None Document title
subject str \| None None Document subject/topic
creator str \| None None Document creator/author
keywords str \| None None Keywords or tags
description str \| None None Document description/abstract
last_modified_by str \| None None User who last modified the document
revision str \| None None Revision number
created str \| None None Creation timestamp (ISO 8601)
modified str \| None None Last modification timestamp (ISO 8601)
category str \| None None Document category
content_status str \| None None Content status (Draft, Final, etc.)
language str \| None None Document language
identifier str \| None None Unique identifier
version str \| None None Document version
last_printed str \| None None Last print timestamp (ISO 8601)

SecurityLimits

Configuration for security limits across extractors.

All limits are intentionally conservative to prevent DoS attacks while still supporting legitimate documents.

Field Type Default Description
max_archive_size int 524288000 Maximum uncompressed size for archives (500 MB)
max_compression_ratio int 100 Maximum compression ratio before flagging as potential bomb (100:1)
max_files_in_archive int 10000 Maximum number of files in archive (10,000)
max_nesting_depth int 1024 Maximum nesting depth for structures (100)
max_entity_length int 1048576 Maximum length of any single XML entity / attribute / token (1 MiB). This is a per-token cap, NOT a total cap — billion-laughs class attacks where a single entity expands to hundreds of MB are caught here, while normal long text content (a paragraph, a CDATA block) is caught by max_content_size instead.
max_content_size int 104857600 Maximum string growth per document (100 MB)
max_iterations int 10000000 Maximum iterations per operation
max_xml_depth int 1024 Maximum XML depth (100 levels)
max_table_cells int 100000 Maximum cells per table (100,000)

TokenReductionConfig

Configuration for the token-reduction pipeline.

Field Type Default Description
level ReductionLevel ReductionLevel.MODERATE Reduction intensity level.
language_hint str \| None None ISO 639-1 language code hint for stopword selection (e.g. "en", "de").
preserve_markdown bool False Preserve Markdown formatting tokens during reduction.
preserve_code bool True Preserve code block contents unchanged.
semantic_threshold float 0.3 Cosine similarity threshold below which sentences are considered dissimilar.
enable_parallel bool True Use Rayon parallel iterators for multi-core processing.
use_simd bool True Use SIMD-optimized text scanning where available.
custom_stopwords dict\[str, list\[str\]\] \| None None Per-language custom stopword lists (language_code → stopword_list).
preserve_patterns list\[str\] \[\] Regex patterns whose matched text is always preserved unchanged.
target_reduction float \| None None Target fraction of text to retain (0.0–1.0); None = no fixed target.
enable_semantic_clustering bool False Group semantically similar sentences and emit only one per cluster.

FootnoteConfig

Configuration for markdown footnote and citation parsing.

Field Type Default Description
parse_citations bool True Whether to parse the structured citation block (default: true). When enabled, the parser will look for and extract citations from the block after --- + <!-- citations ... -->.

DocumentStructure

Top-level structured document representation.

A flat array of nodes with index-based parent/child references forming a tree. Root-level nodes have parent: None. Use body_roots() and furniture_roots() to iterate over top-level content by layer.

Validation

Call validate() after construction to verify all node indices are in bounds and parent-child relationships are bidirectionally consistent.

Field Type Default Description
nodes list\[DocumentNode\] \[\] All nodes in document/reading order.
source_format str \| None None Origin format identifier (e.g. "docx", "pptx", "html", "pdf"). Allows renderers to apply format-aware heuristics when converting the document tree to output formats.
relationships list\[DocumentRelationship\] \[\] Resolved relationships between nodes (footnote refs, citations, anchor links, etc.). Populated during derivation from the internal document representation. Empty when no relationships are detected.
node_types list\[str\] \[\] Sorted, deduplicated list of node type names present in this document. Each value is the snake_case node_type tag of the corresponding NodeContent variant (e.g. "paragraph", "heading", "table", …). Computed from nodes via DocumentStructure.finalize_node_types. Empty until that method is called (internal construction paths call it at the end of derivation).

TableGrid

Structured table grid with cell-level metadata.

Stores row/column dimensions and a flat list of cells with position info.

Field Type Default Description
rows int Number of rows in the table.
cols int Number of columns in the table.
cells list\[GridCell\] \[\] All cells in row-major order.

ExtractionResult

General extraction result used by the core extraction API.

This is the main result type returned by all extraction functions.

Field Type Default Description
content str Plain-text representation of the extracted document content.
mime_type str MIME type of the source document (e.g. "application/pdf").
metadata Metadata Document-level metadata (author, title, dates, format-specific fields).
extraction_method ExtractionMethod \| None None Extraction strategy used to produce the returned text. Populated when the extractor can reliably distinguish native text extraction, OCR-only extraction, or mixed native/OCR output.
tables list\[Table\] \[\] Tables extracted from the document, each with structured cell data.
detected_languages list\[str\] \| None \[\] ISO 639-1 language codes detected in the document content.
chunks list\[Chunk\] \| None \[\] Text chunks when chunking is enabled. When chunking configuration is provided, the content is split into overlapping chunks for efficient processing. Each chunk contains the text, optional embeddings (if enabled), and metadata about its position.
images list\[ExtractedImage\] \| None \[\] Extracted images from the document. When image extraction is enabled via ImageExtractionConfig, this field contains all images found in the document with their raw data and metadata. Each image may optionally contain a nested ocr_result if OCR was performed.
pages list\[PageContent\] \| None \[\] Per-page content when page extraction is enabled. When page extraction is configured, the document is split into per-page content with tables and images mapped to their respective pages.
elements list\[Element\] \| None \[\] Semantic elements when element-based result format is enabled. When result_format is set to ElementBased, this field contains semantic elements with type classification, unique identifiers, and metadata for Unstructured-compatible element-based processing.
djot_content DjotContent \| None None Rich Djot content structure (when extracting Djot documents). When extracting Djot documents with structured extraction enabled, this field contains the full semantic structure including: - Block-level elements with nesting - Inline formatting with attributes - Links, images, footnotes - Math expressions - Complete attribute information The content field still contains plain text for backward compatibility. Always None for non-Djot documents.
ocr_elements list\[OcrElement\] \| None \[\] OCR elements with full spatial and confidence metadata. When OCR is performed with element extraction enabled, this field contains the structured representation of detected text including: - Bounding geometry (rectangles or quadrilaterals) - Confidence scores (detection and recognition) - Rotation information - Hierarchical relationships (Tesseract only) This field preserves all metadata that would otherwise be lost when converting to plain text or markdown output formats. Only populated when OcrElementConfig.include_elements is true.
document DocumentStructure \| None None Structured document tree (when document structure extraction is enabled). When include_document_structure is true in ExtractionConfig, this field contains the full hierarchical representation of the document including: - Heading-driven section nesting - Table grids with cell-level metadata - Content layer classification (body, header, footer, footnote) - Inline text annotations (formatting, links) - Bounding boxes and page numbers Independent of result_format — can be combined with Unified or ElementBased.
extracted_keywords list\[Keyword\] \| None \[\] Extracted keywords when keyword extraction is enabled. When keyword extraction (RAKE or YAKE) is configured, this field contains the extracted keywords with scores, algorithm info, and position data. Previously stored in metadata.additional\["keywords"\].
quality_score float \| None None Document quality score from quality analysis. A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating the overall text quality. Previously stored in metadata.additional\["quality_score"\].
processing_warnings list\[ProcessingWarning\] \[\] Non-fatal warnings collected during processing pipeline stages. Captures errors from optional pipeline features (embedding, chunking, language detection, output formatting) that don't prevent extraction but may indicate degraded results. Previously stored as individual keys in metadata.additional.
annotations list\[PdfAnnotation\] \| None \[\] PDF annotations extracted from the document. When annotation extraction is enabled via PdfConfig.extract_annotations, this field contains text notes, highlights, links, stamps, and other annotations found in PDF documents.
children list\[ArchiveEntry\] \| None \[\] Nested extraction results from archive contents. When extracting archives, each processable file inside produces its own full extraction result. Set to None for non-archive formats. Use max_archive_depth in config to control recursion depth.
uris list\[ExtractedUri\] \| None \[\] URIs/links discovered during document extraction. Contains hyperlinks, image references, citations, email addresses, and other URI-like references found in the document. Always extracted when present in the source document.
revisions list\[DocumentRevision\] \| None \[\] Tracked changes embedded in the source document. Populated by per-format extractors that understand change-tracking metadata (DOCX w:ins/w:del/w:rPrChange, ODT text:change-*, …). Every extractor defaults to None until its format-specific implementation is added. Extractors that do populate this field follow the "accepted-changes" convention: inserted text is present in content, deleted text is absent — the revision list is the separate audit trail.
structured_output dict\[str, Any\] \| None None Structured extraction output from LLM-based JSON schema extraction. When structured_extraction is configured in ExtractionConfig, the extracted document content is sent to a VLM with the provided JSON schema. The response is parsed and stored here as a JSON value matching the schema.
code_intelligence dict\[str, Any\] \| None None Code intelligence results from tree-sitter analysis. Populated when extracting source code files with the tree-sitter feature. Contains metrics, structural analysis, imports/exports, comments, docstrings, symbols, diagnostics, and optionally chunked code segments. Stored as an opaque JSON value so that all language bindings (Go, Java, C#, …) can deserialize it as a raw JSON object rather than a typed struct. The underlying type is tree_sitter_language_pack.ProcessResult.
llm_usage list\[LlmUsage\] \| None \[\] LLM token usage and cost data for all LLM calls made during this extraction. Contains one entry per LLM call. Multiple entries are produced when VLM OCR, structured extraction, or LLM embeddings run during the same extraction. None when no LLM was used.
entities list\[Entity\] \| None \[\] Named entities detected in content by the NER post-processor. None when no NER backend is configured. Populated by the gline-rs ONNX backend or the LLM-driven backend (see crates/kreuzberg/src/text/ner/).
summary DocumentSummary \| None None Summary of content produced by the summarisation post-processor. None when summarisation is not configured. Populated by the TextRank extractive backend (deterministic, no external service) or by the liter-llm-driven abstractive backend.
extraction_confidence ExtractionConfidence \| None None Confidence score computed by the heuristics pipeline. Populated when the heuristics feature is enabled and confidence scoring has been performed. Combines text-coverage, OCR aggregate confidence, and schema-compliance into a single \[0, 1\] value. None when confidence scoring is not configured or the feature is absent.
translation Translation \| None None Translation of content produced by the translation post-processor. None when translation is not configured.
page_classifications list\[PageClassification\] \| None \[\] Per-page classifications produced by the page-classification post-processor. None when classification is not configured.
redaction_report RedactionReport \| None None Audit report of redactions applied by the redaction post-processor. The redaction processor rewrites content, formatted_content, every chunk's text, and the textual fields of entities / summary / translation / page_classifications in place. This report describes what was found and how it was replaced. None when redaction is not configured.
formulas list\[Formula\] \[\] Mathematical formulas recognized in the document. Populated by the layout-guided formula pipeline when the layout-detection feature is enabled and the document contains regions classified as formulas. Empty otherwise.
form_fields list\[PdfFormField\] \[\] Form fields extracted from a PDF's AcroForm or XFA structure. Populated by the PDF extractor when PdfConfig.extract_form_fields is enabled (default) and the document is a fillable form. Empty otherwise.
formatted_content str \| None None Pre-rendered content in the requested output format. Populated during derive_extraction_result before tree derivation consumes element data. apply_output_format swaps this into content at the end of the pipeline, after post-processors have operated on plain text.

LlmUsage

Token usage and cost data for a single LLM call made during extraction.

Populated when VLM OCR, structured extraction, or LLM-based embeddings are used. Multiple entries may be present when multiple LLM calls occur within one extraction (e.g. VLM OCR + structured extraction).

Field Type Default Description
model str The LLM model identifier (e.g. "openai/gpt-4o", "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514").
source str The pipeline stage that triggered this LLM call (e.g. "vlm_ocr", "structured_extraction", "embeddings").
input_tokens int \| None None Number of input/prompt tokens consumed.
output_tokens int \| None None Number of output/completion tokens generated.
total_tokens int \| None None Total tokens (input + output).
estimated_cost float \| None None Estimated cost in USD based on the provider's published pricing.
finish_reason str \| None None Why the model stopped generating (e.g. "stop", "length", "content_filter").

ExtractedImage

Extracted image from a document.

Contains raw image data, metadata, and optional nested OCR results. Raw bytes allow cross-language compatibility - users can convert to PIL.Image (Python), Sharp (Node.js), or other formats as needed.

Field Type Default Description
data bytes Raw image data (PNG, JPEG, WebP, etc. bytes). Uses bytes.Bytes for cheap cloning of large buffers.
format str Image format (e.g., "jpeg", "png", "webp") Uses Cow<'static, str> to avoid allocation for static literals.
image_index int Zero-indexed position of this image in the document/page
page_number int \| None None Page/slide number where image was found (1-indexed)
width int \| None None Image width in pixels
height int \| None None Image height in pixels
colorspace str \| None None Colorspace information (e.g., "RGB", "CMYK", "Gray")
bits_per_component int \| None None Bits per color component (e.g., 8, 16)
is_mask bool Whether this image is a mask image
description str \| None None Optional description of the image
ocr_result ExtractionResult \| None None Nested OCR extraction result (if image was OCRed) When OCR is performed on this image, the result is embedded here rather than in a separate collection, making the relationship explicit.
bounding_box BoundingBox \| None None Bounding box of the image on the page (PDF coordinates: x0=left, y0=bottom, x1=right, y1=top). Only populated for PDF-extracted images when position data is available from the PDF extractor.
source_path str \| None None Original source path of the image within the document archive (e.g., "media/image1.png" in DOCX). Used for rendering image references when the binary data is not extracted.
image_kind ImageKind \| None None Heuristic classification of what this image likely depicts. None if classification was disabled or inconclusive.
kind_confidence float \| None None Confidence score for image_kind, in the range 0.0 to 1.0.
cluster_id int \| None None Identifier shared across images that form a single logical figure (e.g. all raster tiles of one technical drawing). None for singletons.
caption str \| None None VLM-generated caption describing the image, when captioning is configured. Populated by the captioning post-processor (crates/kreuzberg/src/plugins/processor/builtin/captioning.rs), which routes each image through crate.llm.region_extractor.extract_region_with_vlm in caption mode. None when captioning is disabled or the VLM declined to caption.
qr_codes list\[QrCode\] \| None \[\] QR codes decoded from this image, when QR detection is enabled. Populated by the QR post-processor (crates/kreuzberg/src/extractors/qr.rs) via the pure-Rust rqrr decoder. None when QR detection is disabled; an empty Some(\[\]) when detection ran but found nothing.
data_base64 str \| None None Base64-encoded copy of data; populated when ImageExtractionConfig.include_data_base64 is True. Omitted from JSON by default; use instead of data in JSON-only clients.

BoundingBox

Bounding box coordinates for element positioning.

Field Type Default Description
x0 float Left x-coordinate
y0 float Bottom y-coordinate
x1 float Right x-coordinate
y1 float Top y-coordinate

ImagePreprocessingConfig

Image preprocessing configuration for OCR.

These settings control how images are preprocessed before OCR to improve text recognition quality. Different preprocessing strategies work better for different document types.

Field Type Default Description
target_dpi int 300 Target DPI for the image (300 is standard, 600 for small text).
auto_rotate bool False Auto-detect and correct image rotation.
deskew bool True Correct skew (tilted images).
denoise bool False Remove noise from the image.
contrast_enhance bool False Enhance contrast for better text visibility.
binarization_method str "otsu" Binarization method: "otsu", "sauvola", "adaptive".
invert_colors bool False Invert colors (white text on black → black on white).

TesseractConfig

Tesseract OCR configuration.

Provides fine-grained control over Tesseract OCR engine parameters. Most users can use the defaults, but these settings allow optimization for specific document types (invoices, handwriting, etc.).

Field Type Default Description
language list\[str\] \[\] Language code(s) for OCR recognition. Accepts either a single language code ("eng") or a list (["eng", "deu"]). For Tesseract backend, languages are joined with "+".
psm int 3 Page Segmentation Mode (0-13). Common values: - 3: Fully automatic page segmentation (native default) - 6: Assume a single uniform block of text (WASM default — avoids layout-analysis hang) - 11: Sparse text with no particular order
output_format str "markdown" Output format ("text" or "markdown")
oem int 3 OCR Engine Mode (0-3). - 0: Legacy engine only - 1: Neural nets (LSTM) only (usually best) - 2: Legacy + LSTM - 3: Default (based on what's available)
min_confidence float 0 Minimum confidence threshold (0.0-100.0). Words with confidence below this threshold may be rejected or flagged.
preprocessing ImagePreprocessingConfig \| None None Image preprocessing configuration. Controls how images are preprocessed before OCR. Can significantly improve quality for scanned documents or low-quality images.
enable_table_detection bool True Enable automatic table detection and reconstruction
table_min_confidence float 0 Minimum confidence threshold for table detection (0.0-1.0)
table_column_threshold int 50 Column threshold for table detection (pixels)
table_row_threshold_ratio float 0.5 Row threshold ratio for table detection (0.0-1.0)
use_cache bool True Enable OCR result caching
classify_use_pre_adapted_templates bool True Use pre-adapted templates for character classification
language_model_ngram_on bool False Enable N-gram language model
tessedit_dont_blkrej_good_wds bool True Don't reject good words during block-level processing
tessedit_dont_rowrej_good_wds bool True Don't reject good words during row-level processing
tessedit_enable_dict_correction bool True Enable dictionary correction
tessedit_char_whitelist str "" Whitelist of allowed characters (empty = all allowed)
tessedit_char_blacklist str "" Blacklist of forbidden characters (empty = none forbidden)
tessedit_use_primary_params_model bool True Use primary language params model
textord_space_size_is_variable bool True Variable-width space detection
thresholding_method bool False Use adaptive thresholding method

Metadata

Extraction result metadata.

Contains common fields applicable to all formats, format-specific metadata via a discriminated union, and additional custom fields from postprocessors.

Field Type Default Description
title str \| None None Document title
subject str \| None None Document subject or description
authors list\[str\] \| None \[\] Primary author(s) - always Vec for consistency
keywords list\[str\] \| None \[\] Keywords/tags - always Vec for consistency
language str \| None None Primary language (ISO 639 code)
created_at str \| None None Creation timestamp (ISO 8601 format)
modified_at str \| None None Last modification timestamp (ISO 8601 format)
created_by str \| None None User who created the document
modified_by str \| None None User who last modified the document
pages PageStructure \| None None Page/slide/sheet structure with boundaries
format FormatMetadata \| None None Format-specific metadata (discriminated union) Contains detailed metadata specific to the document format. Serialized as a nested "format" object with a format_type discriminator field.
image_preprocessing ImagePreprocessingMetadata \| None None Image preprocessing metadata (when OCR preprocessing was applied)
json_schema dict\[str, Any\] \| None None JSON schema (for structured data extraction)
error ErrorMetadata \| None None Error metadata (for batch operations)
extraction_duration_ms int \| None None Extraction duration in milliseconds (for benchmarking). This field is populated by batch extraction to provide per-file timing information. It's None for single-file extraction (which uses external timing).
category str \| None None Document category (from frontmatter or classification).
tags list\[str\] \| None \[\] Document tags (from frontmatter).
document_version str \| None None Document version string (from frontmatter).
abstract_text str \| None None Abstract or summary text (from frontmatter).
output_format str \| None None Output format identifier (e.g., "markdown", "html", "text"). Set by the output format pipeline stage when format conversion is applied. Previously stored in metadata.additional\["output_format"\].
ocr_used bool Whether OCR was used during extraction. Set to True whenever the extraction pipeline ran an OCR backend (Tesseract, PaddleOCR, VLM, etc.) and used that output as the primary or fallback text. False means native text extraction was used exclusively.
additional dict\[str, dict\[str, Any\]\] {} Additional custom fields from postprocessors. Serialized as a nested "additional" object (not flattened at root level). Uses Cow<'static, str> keys so static string keys avoid allocation.

ExcelMetadata

Excel/spreadsheet format metadata.

Identifies the document as a spreadsheet source via the FormatMetadata.Excel discriminant. Sheet count and sheet names are stored inside this struct.

Field Type Default Description
sheet_count int \| None None Number of sheets in the workbook.
sheet_names list\[str\] \| None \[\] Names of all sheets in the workbook.

EmailMetadata

Email metadata extracted from .eml and .msg files.

Includes sender/recipient information, message ID, and attachment list.

Field Type Default Description
from_email str \| None None Sender's email address
from_name str \| None None Sender's display name
to_emails list\[str\] \[\] Primary recipients
cc_emails list\[str\] \[\] CC recipients
bcc_emails list\[str\] \[\] BCC recipients
message_id str \| None None Message-ID header value
attachments list\[str\] \[\] List of attachment filenames

ArchiveMetadata

Archive (ZIP/TAR/7Z) metadata.

Extracted from compressed archive files containing file lists and size information.

Field Type Default Description
format str Archive format ("ZIP", "TAR", "7Z", etc.)
file_count int Total number of files in the archive
file_list list\[str\] \[\] List of file paths within the archive
total_size int Total uncompressed size in bytes
compressed_size int \| None None Compressed size in bytes (if available)

ImageMetadata

Image metadata extracted from image files.

Includes dimensions, format, and EXIF data.

Field Type Default Description
width int Image width in pixels
height int Image height in pixels
format str Image format (e.g., "PNG", "JPEG", "TIFF")
exif dict\[str, str\] {} EXIF metadata tags

XmlMetadata

XML metadata extracted during XML parsing.

Provides statistics about XML document structure.

Field Type Default Description
element_count int Total number of XML elements processed
unique_elements list\[str\] \[\] List of unique element tag names (sorted)

TextMetadata

Text/Markdown metadata.

Extracted from plain text and Markdown files. Includes word counts and, for Markdown, structural elements like headers and links.

Field Type Default Description
line_count int Number of lines in the document
word_count int Number of words
character_count int Number of characters
headers list\[str\] \| None \[\] Markdown headers (headings text only, for Markdown files)

HtmlMetadata

HTML metadata extracted from HTML documents.

Includes document-level metadata, Open Graph data, Twitter Card metadata, and extracted structural elements (headers, links, images, structured data).

Field Type Default Description
title str \| None None Document title from <title> tag
description str \| None None Document description from <meta name="description"> tag
keywords list\[str\] \[\] Document keywords from <meta name="keywords"> tag, split on commas
author str \| None None Document author from <meta name="author"> tag
canonical_url str \| None None Canonical URL from <link rel="canonical"> tag
base_href str \| None None Base URL from <base href=""> tag for resolving relative URLs
language str \| None None Document language from lang attribute
text_direction TextDirection \| None None Document text direction from dir attribute
open_graph dict\[str, str\] {} Open Graph metadata (og:* properties) for social media Keys like "title", "description", "image", "url", etc.
twitter_card dict\[str, str\] {} Twitter Card metadata (twitter:* properties) Keys like "card", "site", "creator", "title", "description", "image", etc.
meta_tags dict\[str, str\] {} Additional meta tags not covered by specific fields Keys are meta name/property attributes, values are content
headers list\[HeaderMetadata\] \[\] Extracted header elements with hierarchy
links list\[LinkMetadata\] \[\] Extracted hyperlinks with type classification
images list\[ImageMetadataType\] \[\] Extracted images with source and dimensions
structured_data list\[StructuredData\] \[\] Extracted structured data blocks

OcrMetadata

OCR processing metadata.

Captures information about OCR processing configuration and results.

Field Type Default Description
language str OCR language code(s) used
psm int Tesseract Page Segmentation Mode (PSM)
output_format str Output format (e.g., "text", "hocr")
table_count int Number of tables detected
table_rows int \| None None Number of rows in the detected table (if a single table was found).
table_cols int \| None None Number of columns in the detected table (if a single table was found).

PptxMetadata

PowerPoint presentation metadata.

Extracted from PPTX files containing slide counts and presentation details.

Field Type Default Description
slide_count int Total number of slides in the presentation
slide_names list\[str\] \[\] Names of slides (if available)
image_count int \| None None Number of embedded images
table_count int \| None None Number of tables

DocxMetadata

Word document metadata.

Extracted from DOCX files using shared Office Open XML metadata extraction. Integrates with office_metadata module for core/app/custom properties.

Field Type Default Description
core_properties CoreProperties \| None None Core properties from docProps/core.xml (Dublin Core metadata) Contains title, creator, subject, keywords, dates, etc. Shared format across DOCX/PPTX/XLSX documents.
app_properties DocxAppProperties \| None None Application properties from docProps/app.xml (Word-specific statistics) Contains word count, page count, paragraph count, editing time, etc. DOCX-specific variant of Office application properties.
custom_properties dict\[str, dict\[str, Any\]\] \| None {} Custom properties from docProps/custom.xml (user-defined properties) Contains key-value pairs defined by users or applications. Values can be strings, numbers, booleans, or dates.

CsvMetadata

CSV/TSV file metadata.

Field Type Default Description
row_count int Total number of data rows (excluding the header row if present).
column_count int Number of columns detected.
delimiter str \| None None Field delimiter character (e.g. "," or "\t").
has_header bool Whether the first row was treated as a header.
column_types list\[str\] \| None \[\] Inferred data type for each column (e.g. "string", "integer", "float").

BibtexMetadata

BibTeX bibliography metadata.

Field Type Default Description
entry_count int Number of entries in the bibliography.
citation_keys list\[str\] \[\] BibTeX citation keys (e.g. "knuth1984") for all entries.
authors list\[str\] \[\] Author names collected across all bibliography entries.
year_range YearRange \| None None Earliest and latest publication years found in the bibliography.
entry_types dict\[str, int\] \| None {} Count of entries grouped by BibTeX entry type (e.g. "article" → 5).

CitationMetadata

Citation file metadata (RIS, PubMed, EndNote).

Field Type Default Description
citation_count int Total number of citation records in the file.
format str \| None None Detected citation file format (e.g. "ris", "pubmed", "endnote").
authors list\[str\] \[\] Author names collected across all citation records.
year_range YearRange \| None None Earliest and latest publication years found in the file.
dois list\[str\] \[\] DOI identifiers found in the citation records.
keywords list\[str\] \[\] Keywords collected from all citation records.

FictionBookMetadata

FictionBook (FB2) metadata.

Field Type Default Description
genres list\[str\] \[\] Genre tags as declared in the FB2 <genre> elements.
sequences list\[str\] \[\] Book series (sequence) names, if any.
annotation str \| None None Short annotation / summary from the FB2 <annotation> element.

DbfMetadata

dBASE (DBF) file metadata.

Field Type Default Description
record_count int Total number of data records in the DBF file.
field_count int Number of field (column) definitions.
fields list\[DbfFieldInfo\] \[\] Descriptor for each field in the table schema.

JatsMetadata

JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) metadata.

Field Type Default Description
copyright str \| None None Copyright statement from the article's <permissions> element.
license str \| None None Open-access license URI from the article's <license> element.
history_dates dict\[str, str\] {} Publication history dates keyed by event type (e.g. "received", "accepted").
contributor_roles list\[ContributorRole\] \[\] Authors and contributors with their stated roles.

EpubMetadata

EPUB metadata (Dublin Core extensions).

Field Type Default Description
coverage str \| None None Dublin Core coverage field (geographic or temporal scope).
dc_format str \| None None Dublin Core format field (media type of the resource).
relation str \| None None Dublin Core relation field (related resource identifier).
source str \| None None Dublin Core source field (origin resource identifier).
dc_type str \| None None Dublin Core type field (nature or genre of the resource).
cover_image str \| None None Path or identifier of the cover image within the EPUB container.

PstMetadata

Outlook PST archive metadata.

Field Type Default Description
message_count int Total number of email messages found in the PST archive.

AudioMetadata

Audio/video file metadata.

Populated from container tags (ID3v2, MP4 atoms, Vorbis comments, etc.) and PCM decode properties. Available when the transcription-types feature is enabled.

Field Type Default Description
duration_ms int \| None None Duration in milliseconds derived from the decoded audio stream.
codec str \| None None Audio codec (e.g. "mp3", "aac", "opus", "flac").
container str \| None None Container format (e.g. "mpeg", "mp4", "ogg", "wav").
sample_rate_hz int \| None None Sample rate in Hz after decode (always 16000 when resampled for Whisper).
channels int \| None None Number of audio channels (1 = mono, 2 = stereo).
bitrate int \| None None Audio bitrate in kbps from the source file tags/properties.

OcrConfidence

Confidence scores for an OCR element.

Separates detection confidence (how confident that text exists at this location) from recognition confidence (how confident about the actual text content).

Field Type Default Description
detection float \| None None Detection confidence: how confident the OCR engine is that text exists here. PaddleOCR provides this as box_score, Tesseract doesn't have a direct equivalent. Range: 0.0 to 1.0 (or None if not available).
recognition float Recognition confidence: how confident about the text content. Range: 0.0 to 1.0.

OcrElement

A unified OCR element representing detected text with full metadata.

This is the primary type for structured OCR output, preserving all information from both Tesseract and PaddleOCR backends.

Field Type Default Description
text str The recognized text content.
geometry OcrBoundingGeometry OcrBoundingGeometry.RECTANGLE Bounding geometry (rectangle or quadrilateral).
confidence OcrConfidence Confidence scores for detection and recognition.
level OcrElementLevel OcrElementLevel.LINE Hierarchical level (word, line, block, page).
rotation OcrRotation \| None None Rotation information (if detected).
page_number int Page number (1-indexed).
parent_id str \| None None Parent element ID for hierarchical relationships. Only used for Tesseract output which has word -> line -> block hierarchy.
backend_metadata dict\[str, dict\[str, Any\]\] {} Backend-specific metadata that doesn't fit the unified schema.

OcrElementConfig

Configuration for OCR element extraction.

Controls how OCR elements are extracted and filtered.

Field Type Default Description
include_elements bool Whether to include OCR elements in the extraction result. When true, the ocr_elements field in ExtractionResult will be populated.
min_level OcrElementLevel OcrElementLevel.LINE Minimum hierarchical level to include. Elements below this level (e.g., words when min_level is Line) will be excluded.
min_confidence float Minimum recognition confidence threshold (0.0-1.0). Elements with confidence below this threshold will be filtered out.
build_hierarchy bool Whether to build hierarchical relationships between elements. When true, parent_id fields will be populated based on spatial containment. Only meaningful for Tesseract output.

LayoutRegion

A detected layout region on a page.

When layout detection is enabled, each page may have layout regions identifying different content types (text, pictures, tables, etc.) with confidence scores and spatial positions.

Field Type Default Description
class_name str Layout class name (e.g. "picture", "table", "text", "section_header").
confidence float Confidence score from the layout detection model (0.0 to 1.0).
bounding_box BoundingBox Bounding box in document coordinate space.
area_fraction float Fraction of the page area covered by this region (0.0 to 1.0).

RevisionDelta

The content changes that make up a single revision.

For insertions and deletions the content field carries the added/removed lines as DiffLine.Added / DiffLine.Removed entries. For format changes, content is empty — the property diff is left as a TODO for a later enrichment pass.

Field Type Default Description
content list\[DiffLine\] \[\] Line-level content changes for this revision.
table_changes list\[CellChange\] \[\] Cell-level table changes for this revision.

Table

Extracted table structure.

Represents a table detected and extracted from a document (PDF, image, etc.). Tables are converted to both structured cell data and Markdown format.

Field Type Default Description
cells list\[list\[str\]\] \[\] Table cells as a 2D vector (rows × columns)
markdown str Markdown representation of the table
page_number int Page number where the table was found (1-indexed)
bounding_box BoundingBox \| None None Bounding box of the table on the page (PDF coordinates: x0=left, y0=bottom, x1=right, y1=top). Only populated for PDF-extracted tables when position data is available.

TableCell

Individual table cell with content and optional styling.

Future extension point for rich table support with cell-level metadata.

Field Type Default Description
content str Cell content as text
row_span int Row span (number of rows this cell spans)
col_span int Column span (number of columns this cell spans)
is_header bool Whether this is a header cell

DiffOptions

Options controlling how two ExtractionResult values are compared.

Field Type Default Description
include_metadata bool True Include metadata changes in the diff. Default: True.
include_embedded bool True Include embedded-children changes in the diff. Default: True.
max_content_chars int \| None None Truncate content to this many characters before diffing. Useful for very large documents where only the first N characters matter. None means no truncation.

ExtractionDiff

The complete diff between two ExtractionResult values.

Field Type Default Description
content_diff list\[DiffHunk\] \[\] Unified-diff hunks for the content field. Empty when the content is identical.
tables_added list\[Table\] \[\] Tables present in b but not in a (by index position, excess right-side tables).
tables_removed list\[Table\] \[\] Tables present in a but not in b (by index position, excess left-side tables).
tables_changed list\[TableDiff\] \[\] Cell-level changes for table pairs that share the same index and dimensions.
metadata_changed dict\[str, Any\] Metadata difference, encoded as a JSON object with three top-level keys: added (keys present in b but not a), removed (keys present in a but not b), and changed (keys whose values differ — each entry is { "from": <value-in-a>, "to": <value-in-b> }). This is NOT RFC 6902 JSON Patch — we deliberately chose a flatter shape to avoid pulling in a json-patch crate. If you need RFC 6902 semantics (with JSON Pointer paths) feed a.metadata and b.metadata to your preferred json-patch impl directly.
embedded_changes EmbeddedChanges Changes to embedded archive children.

EmbeddedChanges

Changes to embedded archive children between two results.

Field Type Default Description
added list\[ArchiveEntry\] \[\] Children present in b but not in a (matched by path).
removed list\[ArchiveEntry\] \[\] Children present in a but not in b (matched by path).
changed list\[EmbeddedDiff\] \[\] Children present in both but with differing content (matched by path). Each entry holds the diff of the nested ExtractionResult.

YakeParams

YAKE-specific parameters.

Field Type Default Description
window_size int 2 Window size for co-occurrence analysis (default: 2). Controls the context window for computing co-occurrence statistics.

RakeParams

RAKE-specific parameters.

Field Type Default Description
min_word_length int 1 Minimum word length to consider (default: 1).
max_words_per_phrase int 3 Maximum words in a keyword phrase (default: 3).

KeywordConfig

Keyword extraction configuration.

Field Type Default Description
algorithm KeywordAlgorithm KeywordAlgorithm.YAKE Algorithm to use for extraction.
max_keywords int 10 Maximum number of keywords to extract (default: 10).
min_score float 0 Minimum score threshold (0.0-1.0, default: 0.0). Keywords with scores below this threshold are filtered out. Note: Score ranges differ between algorithms.
language str \| None None Language code for stopword filtering (e.g., "en", "de", "fr"). If None, no stopword filtering is applied.
yake_params YakeParams \| None None YAKE-specific tuning parameters.
rake_params RakeParams \| None None RAKE-specific tuning parameters.

EnrichOptions

Which enrichment passes to run on a piece of text.

All fields default to False / empty so callers can opt in precisely.

Field Type Default Description
keywords bool Run keyword extraction on the input text. When True, the enrichment backend identifies the most salient terms and returns them in EnrichResult.keywords.
entities bool Run named-entity recognition (NER) on the input text. When True, the enrichment backend identifies named entities (persons, organisations, locations, etc.) and returns them in EnrichResult.entities.
labels list\[str\] \[\] Custom labels to pass through to the result without modification. These are caller-supplied tags that the enrichment pipeline propagates verbatim into EnrichResult.labels. Useful for attaching project- or document-level metadata to every enrichment result.

EnrichResult

Structured output produced by a completed enrichment pass.

Fields are populated only when the corresponding EnrichOptions flag was set.

Field Type Default Description
keywords list\[str\] \[\] Salient terms extracted from the text. Populated when EnrichOptions.keywords was True. The ordering is backend-defined (typically by descending relevance score).
entities list\[Entity\] \[\] Named entities found in the text. Populated when EnrichOptions.entities was True. Uses the shared OSS entity schema (Entity / EntityCategory) so consumers can pattern-match on entity categories without JSON gymnastics.
labels list\[str\] \[\] Caller-supplied labels echoed from EnrichOptions.labels.

UserChunkConfig

User-provided chunk configuration.

Field Type Default Description
page_ranges list\[PageRange\] \| None \[\] User-specified page ranges (overrides automatic chunking).
pages_per_chunk int \| None None User-specified pages per chunk (overrides automatic calculation).
force_chunking bool Force chunking even for small documents.
disable_chunking bool Disable chunking even for large documents.

ConfidenceWeights

Tunable weights for the confidence scoring formula.

Defaults picked by inspection; callers tune them via config.

Field Type Default Description
text_coverage float 0.3 Weight assigned to text_coverage. Default 0.30.
ocr_aggregate float 0.3 Weight assigned to ocr_aggregate when OCR ran. Default 0.30 — folds into text_coverage weight when OCR did not run.
schema_compliance float 0.4 Weight assigned to schema_compliance. Default 0.40.

HeuristicsConfig

Configuration for document chunking and analysis heuristics.

Every threshold is a public field so callers can override any subset via struct-update syntax: HeuristicsConfig { text_layer_threshold: 0.5, ..the default constructor }.

Field Type Default Description
enable_pdf_text_heuristics bool True Enable PDF text-layer detection heuristics. When True, PDFs with a substantial text layer will skip chunking. Default: True.
text_layer_threshold float 0.7 Minimum fraction of pages that must have text to skip chunking. Range 0.0..=1.0. Default: 0.7 (70 % of pages).
file_size_threshold_bytes int 10485760 File size threshold in bytes for considering chunking. Files smaller than this are processed without chunking. Default: 10 MiB (10 × 1 024 × 1 024).
page_count_threshold int 50 Page count threshold for considering chunking. Documents with fewer pages are processed without chunking. Default: 50.
target_pages_per_chunk int 10 Target number of pages per chunk for optimal parallel processing. Default: 10.
max_pages_per_chunk int 25 Hard cap on pages per chunk. No chunk will exceed this limit. Must be ≥ target_pages_per_chunk. Default: 25.
disk_processing_threshold_bytes int 52428800 File size threshold for disk-based processing. Files larger than this are buffered to disk to prevent OOM. Default: 50 MiB (50 × 1 024 × 1 024).
min_chars_per_page int 50 Minimum characters per page to consider a page as having text. Default: 50.
max_xlsx_sheet_count int 200 Maximum sheet count allowed in an XLSX workbook. Workbooks beyond this are rejected pre-extraction to avoid OOM / abusive billing inflation. Default: 200.
max_xlsx_workbook_cells int 5000000 Maximum cell count (sheets × rows × columns approximation) in an XLSX workbook. Default: 5 000 000 (≈ 200 sheets × 25 k cells).
max_pptx_embedded_count int 50 Maximum number of OLE-embedded objects extractable from a single PPTX or DOCX. Protects against zip-bomb-style nested-document abuse. Default: 50.

ChunkPlan

Complete chunking plan for a document.

Field Type Default Description
total_chunks int 0 Total number of chunks.
chunks list\[ChunkInfo\] \[\] Individual chunk information.
total_estimated_time_ms int 0 Estimated total processing time in milliseconds.
use_disk_processing bool False Whether to use disk-based processing for large files.
reason ChunkingReason ChunkingReason.LARGE_FILE Reason for chunking.

MultidocThresholds

Thresholds for multi-document boundary detection.

All fields are public; callers override any subset via struct-update syntax.

Field Type Default Description
density_shift_threshold float 0.3 Text density difference threshold for DensityShift detection. Default: 0.3.
bigram_overlap_min float 0.1 Minimum bigram-overlap ratio below which a density shift is promoted to a DensityShift boundary. Default: 0.1 (10 % overlap).

StructuredThresholds

Thresholds for the structured-extraction call-mode heuristic.

All defaults are conservative starting points. Deployments should measure their own document corpus and override via their own config; these values are chosen to be safe-by-default, not to be optimal for any particular workload.

Construct custom thresholds with struct-update syntax:

Field Type Default Description
scan_max_coverage float 0.1 PDFs with text_coverage strictly below this are treated as scanned. Conservative default: 0.10 — deployments override via their own config after measuring their document corpus.
digital_min_coverage float 0.9 PDFs with text_coverage at or above this AND zero embedded images route to StructuredCallMode.TextOnly. Conservative default: 0.90 — deployments override via their own config after measuring their document corpus.
docx_text_min_density float 200 DOCX / HTML / text documents with avg_chars_per_page above this route to StructuredCallMode.TextOnly. Conservative default: 200.0 — deployments override via their own config after measuring their document corpus.
enable_vision_fallback bool False When True, emit StructuredCallMode.TextOnlyWithVisionFallback instead of StructuredCallMode.TextOnly so the orchestrator can escalate to vision on low confidence. Conservative default: False — must be explicitly enabled per deployment after bench validation; deployments override via their own config.

PaddleOcrConfig

Configuration for PaddleOCR backend.

Configures PaddleOCR text detection and recognition with multi-language support. Uses a builder pattern for convenient configuration.

Field Type Default Description
language str Language code (e.g., "en", "ch", "jpn", "kor", "deu", "fra")
cache_dir str \| None None Optional custom cache directory for model files
use_angle_cls bool Enable angle classification for rotated text (default: false). Can misfire on short text regions, rotating crops incorrectly before recognition.
enable_table_detection bool Enable table structure detection (default: false)
det_db_thresh float Database threshold for text detection (default: 0.3) Range: 0.0-1.0, higher values require more confident detections
det_db_box_thresh float Box threshold for text bounding box refinement (default: 0.5) Range: 0.0-1.0
det_db_unclip_ratio float Unclip ratio for expanding text bounding boxes (default: 1.6) Controls the expansion of detected text regions
det_limit_side_len int Maximum side length for detection image (default: 960) Larger images may be resized to this limit for faster inference
rec_batch_num int Batch size for recognition inference (default: 6) Number of text regions to process simultaneously
padding int Padding in pixels added around the image before detection (default: 10). Large values can include surrounding content like table gridlines.
drop_score float Minimum recognition confidence score for text lines (default: 0.5). Text regions with recognition confidence below this threshold are discarded. Matches PaddleOCR Python's drop_score parameter. Range: 0.0-1.0
model_tier str Model tier controlling detection/recognition model size and accuracy trade-off. - "mobile" (default): Lightweight models (~4.5MB detection, ~16.5MB recognition), fast download and inference - "server": Large, high-accuracy models (~88MB detection, ~84MB recognition), best for GPU or complex documents

PdfMetadata

PDF-specific metadata.

Contains metadata fields specific to PDF documents that are not in the common Metadata structure. Common fields like title, authors, keywords, and dates are at the Metadata level.

Field Type Default Description
pdf_version str \| None None PDF version (e.g., "1.7", "2.0")
producer str \| None None PDF producer (application that created the PDF)
is_encrypted bool \| None None Whether the PDF is encrypted/password-protected
width int \| None None First page width in points (1/72 inch)
height int \| None None First page height in points (1/72 inch)
page_count int \| None None Total number of pages in the PDF document

ClassificationEnrichmentConfig

Classification enrichment knob: how to label the document.

Field Type Default Description
config PageClassificationConfig Label set and LLM settings for the classification stage.

CaptioningEnrichmentConfig

Captioning enrichment knob: which LLM to use for image captions.

The enrichment stage calls caption_image for every image in ExtractionResult.images that has non-empty data. Images with empty byte data (e.g. reference-only images populated via source_path) are skipped rather than forwarded to the VLM.

Field Type Default Description
config LlmConfig LLM / VLM configuration forwarded verbatim to each caption_image call.
custom_prompt str \| None None Optional custom prompt override forwarded to every caption_image call. None uses the default RegionKind.Caption prompt.

Enums

ChunkSizing

How chunk size is measured.

Defaults to Characters (Unicode character count). When using token-based sizing, chunks are sized by token count according to the specified tokenizer.

Token-based sizing uses HuggingFace tokenizers loaded at runtime. Any tokenizer available on HuggingFace Hub can be used, including OpenAI-compatible tokenizers (e.g., Xenova/gpt-4o, Xenova/cl100k_base).

Variant Wire value Description
Characters characters Size measured in Unicode characters (default).
Tokenizer tokenizer Size measured in tokens from a HuggingFace tokenizer. — Fields: model: String, cache_dir: PathBuf

ChunkerType

Type of text chunker to use.

Variants

  • Text - Generic text splitter, splits on whitespace and punctuation
  • Markdown - Markdown-aware splitter, preserves formatting and structure
  • Yaml - YAML-aware splitter, creates one chunk per top-level key
  • Semantic - Topic-aware chunker. With an EmbeddingConfig, splits at embedding-based topic shifts tuned by topic_threshold (default 0.75, lower = more splits). Without an embedding, falls back to a structural-boundary heuristic (ALL-CAPS headers, numbered sections, blank-line paragraphs) and merges groups into chunks capped at max_characters (default 1000). topic_threshold has no effect in the fallback path. For best results, pair with an embedding model.
Variant Wire value Description
Text text Generic whitespace- and punctuation-aware text splitter (default).
Markdown markdown Markdown-aware splitter that preserves heading and code-block boundaries.
Yaml yaml YAML-aware splitter that creates one chunk per top-level key.
Semantic semantic Topic-aware chunker that splits at embedding-based topic shifts.

ChunkingReason

Reason for chunking a document.

Variant Description
LargeFile File exceeds size threshold. — Fields: size_bytes: u64, threshold_bytes: u64
ManyPages Document has many pages. — Fields: page_count: u32, threshold: u32
OcrRequired PDF requires OCR and is large. — Fields: page_count: u32, force_ocr: bool
LargeAndManyPages Both size and page count exceed thresholds. — Fields: size_bytes: u64, page_count: u32

CodeContentMode

Content rendering mode for code extraction.

Controls how extracted code content is represented in the content field of ExtractionResult.

Variant Wire value Description
Chunks chunks Use TSLP semantic chunks as content (default).
Raw raw Use raw source code as content.
Structure structure Emit function/class headings + docstrings (no code bodies).

DiffLine

A single line in a unified-diff hunk.

Defined here (rather than only in crate.diff) so RevisionDelta can reference it unconditionally, without requiring the diff Cargo feature. crate.diff re-exports this type verbatim.

Variant Wire value Description
Context context Unchanged context line. — Fields: _0: String
Added added Line added in the "after" version. — Fields: _0: String
Removed removed Line removed from the "before" version. — Fields: _0: String

EmbeddingModelType

Embedding model types supported by Kreuzberg.

Variant Wire value Description
Preset preset Use a preset model configuration (recommended) — Fields: name: String
Custom custom Use a custom ONNX model from HuggingFace — Fields: model_id: String, dimensions: usize
Llm llm Provider-hosted embedding model via liter-llm. Uses the model specified in the nested LlmConfig (e.g., "openai/text-embedding-3-small"). — Fields: llm: LlmConfig
Plugin plugin In-process embedding backend registered via the plugin system. The caller registers an EmbeddingBackend once (e.g. a wrapper around an already-loaded llama-cpp-python, sentence-transformers, or tuned ONNX model), then references it by name in config. Kreuzberg calls back into the registered backend during chunking and standalone embed requests — no HuggingFace download, no ONNX Runtime requirement, no HTTP sidecar. When this variant is selected, only the following EmbeddingConfig fields apply: normalize (post-call L2 normalization) and max_embed_duration_secs (dispatcher timeout). Model-loading fields (batch_size, cache_dir, show_download_progress, acceleration) are ignored — the host owns the model lifecycle. Semantic chunking falls back to ChunkingConfig.max_characters when this variant is used, since there is no preset to look a chunk-size ceiling up against — size your context window via max_characters directly. See register_embedding_backend. — Fields: name: String

EntityCategory

Standard entity categories produced by built-in NER backends.

The Custom(String) variant lets caller-supplied categories (e.g. LLM schemas) flow through without losing fidelity to the consumer.

Variant Wire value Description
Person person A person's name.
Organization organization A company, institution, or organisation name.
Location location A geographic location (city, country, address).
Date date A calendar date.
Time time A time of day or duration.
Money money A monetary amount with optional currency.
Percent percent A percentage value.
Email email An email address.
Phone phone A phone number.
Url url A URL or URI.
Custom custom A caller-supplied custom category label. — Fields: _0: String

ExecutionProviderType

ONNX Runtime execution provider type.

Determines which hardware backend is used for model inference. Auto (default) selects the best available provider per platform.

Variant Wire value Description
Auto auto Auto-select: CoreML on macOS, CUDA on Linux, CPU elsewhere.
Cpu cpu CPU execution provider (always available).
CoreMl coreml Apple CoreML (macOS/iOS Neural Engine + GPU).
Cuda cuda NVIDIA CUDA GPU acceleration.
TensorRt tensorrt NVIDIA TensorRT (optimized CUDA inference).

ExtractionMethod

How the extracted text was produced.

Variant Wire value Description
Native native Text extracted directly from the document's native format (no OCR).
Ocr ocr All text was obtained via OCR (e.g. scanned image-only PDF).
Mixed mixed Text came from a combination of native extraction and OCR.

FormatMetadata

Format-specific metadata (discriminated union).

Only one format type can exist per extraction result. This provides type-safe, clean metadata without nested optionals.

Variant Wire value Description
Pdf pdf Metadata extracted from a PDF document. — Fields: _0: PdfMetadata
Docx docx Metadata extracted from a DOCX Word document. — Fields: _0: DocxMetadata
Excel excel Metadata extracted from an Excel spreadsheet. — Fields: _0: ExcelMetadata
Email email Metadata extracted from an email message (EML/MSG). — Fields: _0: EmailMetadata
Pptx pptx Metadata extracted from a PowerPoint presentation. — Fields: _0: PptxMetadata
Archive archive Metadata extracted from an archive (ZIP, TAR, 7Z, etc.). — Fields: _0: ArchiveMetadata
Image image Metadata extracted from a raster or vector image. — Fields: _0: ImageMetadata
Xml xml Metadata extracted from an XML document. — Fields: _0: XmlMetadata
Text text Metadata extracted from a plain-text file. — Fields: _0: TextMetadata
Html html Metadata extracted from an HTML document. — Fields: _0: HtmlMetadata
Ocr ocr Metadata produced by an OCR pipeline. — Fields: _0: OcrMetadata
Csv csv Metadata extracted from a CSV or TSV file. — Fields: _0: CsvMetadata
Bibtex bibtex Metadata extracted from a BibTeX bibliography file. — Fields: _0: BibtexMetadata
Citation citation Metadata extracted from a citation file (RIS, PubMed, EndNote). — Fields: _0: CitationMetadata
FictionBook fiction_book Metadata extracted from a FictionBook (FB2) e-book. — Fields: _0: FictionBookMetadata
Dbf dbf Metadata extracted from a dBASE (DBF) database file. — Fields: _0: DbfMetadata
Jats jats Metadata extracted from a JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) XML file. — Fields: _0: JatsMetadata
Epub epub Metadata extracted from an EPUB e-book. — Fields: _0: EpubMetadata
Pst pst Metadata extracted from an Outlook PST archive. — Fields: _0: PstMetadata
Audio audio Metadata extracted from an audio or video file. — Fields: _0: AudioMetadata
Code code Code (tree-sitter analyzable source). The structured analysis result is exposed via ExtractionResult.code_intelligence; this variant only tags the format.

HtmlTheme

Built-in HTML theme selection.

Variant Wire value Description
Default default Sensible defaults: system font stack, neutral colours, readable line measure. CSS custom properties (--kb-*) are all defined so user CSS can override individual values.
GitHub github GitHub Markdown-inspired palette and spacing.
Dark dark Dark background, light text.
Light light Minimal light theme with generous whitespace.
Unstyled unstyled No built-in stylesheet emitted. CSS custom properties are still defined on :root so user stylesheets can reference var(--kb-*) tokens.

ImageKind

Heuristic classification of what an image likely depicts.

Variant Wire value Description
Photograph photograph Photographic image (natural scene, photograph)
Diagram diagram Technical or schematic diagram
Chart chart Chart, graph, or plot
Drawing drawing Freehand or technical drawing
TextBlock text_block Text-heavy image (scanned text, document)
Decoration decoration Decorative element or border
Logo logo Logo or brand mark
Icon icon Small icon
TileFragment tile_fragment Fragment of a larger tiled image (tile of a technical drawing)
Mask mask Mask or transparency map
PageRaster page_raster Full-page render produced during OCR preprocessing; used as a citation thumbnail.
Unknown unknown Could not classify with reasonable confidence

ImageOutputFormat

Target format for re-encoding extracted images.

Controls whether and how extracted images are normalised to a uniform container format before being returned in ExtractionResult.images. The default (Native) preserves the format produced by each extractor without any additional encode pass.

Callers that need uniform output — e.g. cloud pipelines that always store WebP thumbnails — set this once on ImageExtractionConfig.output_format rather than re-encoding downstream.

Serde shape

Uses a tagged enum: {"type": "native"}, {"type": "png"}, {"type": "jpeg", "quality": 90}, etc.

Variant Wire value Description
Native native Preserve whatever format the extractor produced (default). No re-encode pass is performed. ExtractedImage.format reflects the source format: JPEG for embedded PDF images, PNG for rasterised content, or the native container format from office documents.
Png png Re-encode all extracted images as PNG (lossless).
Jpeg jpeg Re-encode all extracted images as JPEG at the given quality level. quality must be in 1..=100. Values outside this range are clamped and a warning is emitted. Higher values produce larger files with less artefacting; 85 is a reasonable default. — Fields: quality: u8
Webp webp Re-encode all extracted images as WebP at the given quality level. quality must be in 1..=100. Values outside this range are clamped and a warning is emitted. 80 is a reasonable default. — Fields: quality: u8
Heif heif Re-encode all extracted images as HEIF/HEIC at the given quality level. Requires the heic feature. quality must be in 1..=100. Values outside this range are clamped and a warning is emitted. 80 is a reasonable default. — Fields: quality: u8
Svg svg Output pure-vector SVG. Lossless. Raster sources are not re-encoded (a warning is emitted and the image bytes are left untouched). When the source is already SVG, the bytes are passed through the usvg sanitizer (strips external hrefs, JS event handlers, and foreignObject elements) when SvgOptions.sanitize is True. Requires the svg feature.

KeywordAlgorithm

Keyword algorithm selection.

Variant Wire value Description
Yake yake YAKE (Yet Another Keyword Extractor) - statistical approach
Rake rake RAKE (Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction) - co-occurrence based

NerBackendKind

NER backend selector.

Variant Wire value Description
Onnx onnx gline-rs ONNX inference. Requires ner-onnx feature. Models download lazily from HuggingFace via model_download.hf_download.
Llm llm liter-llm zero-shot NER via structured-output prompts. Requires ner-llm feature. Useful when domain-specific categories outstrip the ONNX taxonomy.

OcrBoundingGeometry

Bounding geometry for an OCR element.

Supports both axis-aligned rectangles (from Tesseract) and 4-point quadrilaterals (from PaddleOCR and rotated text detection).

Variant Wire value Description
Rectangle rectangle Axis-aligned bounding box (typical for Tesseract output). — Fields: left: u32, top: u32, width: u32, height: u32
Quadrilateral quadrilateral 4-point quadrilateral for rotated/skewed text (PaddleOCR). Points are in clockwise order starting from top-left: \[top_left, top_right, bottom_right, bottom_left\]

OcrElementLevel

Hierarchical level of an OCR element.

Maps to Tesseract's page segmentation hierarchy and provides equivalent semantics for PaddleOCR.

Variant Wire value Description
Word word Individual word
Line line Line of text (default for PaddleOCR)
Block block Paragraph or text block
Page page Page-level element

OutputFormat

Output format for extraction results.

Controls the format of the content field in ExtractionResult. When set to Markdown, Djot, or Html, the output uses that format. Plain returns the raw extracted text. Structured returns JSON with full OCR element data including bounding boxes and confidence scores.

Variant Wire value Description
Plain plain Plain text content only (default)
Markdown markdown Markdown format
Djot djot Djot markup format
Html html HTML format
Json json JSON tree format with heading-driven sections.
Structured structured Structured JSON format with full OCR element metadata.
Custom custom Custom renderer registered via the RendererRegistry. The string is the renderer name (e.g., "docx", "latex"). — Fields: _0: String

PiiCategory

PII categories the pattern engine recognises.

Variant Wire value Description
Email email Email address (e.g. user@example.com).
Phone phone Phone number in any common format.
Ssn ssn US Social Security Number.
CreditCard credit_card Payment card number (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc.).
PostalCode postal_code Postal / ZIP code.
IpAddress ip_address IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Iban iban International Bank Account Number.
SwiftBic swift_bic SWIFT / BIC bank identifier code.
DateOfBirth date_of_birth Date of birth.
Person person Person name, surfaced by the optional NER backend.
Organization organization Organization name, surfaced by the optional NER backend.
Location location Location, surfaced by the optional NER backend.
Custom custom Caller-supplied custom category (e.g. internal employee IDs). Surfaced by the redaction engine when a hit comes from RedactionConfig.custom_terms or RedactionConfig.custom_patterns. The string is the label passed alongside the term/pattern. Use those fields rather than constructing Custom directly via the categories filter — the pattern engine cannot detect arbitrary text from a category name alone. — Fields: _0: String

RedactionStrategy

Strategy applied when a PII match is rewritten.

Variant Wire value Description
Mask mask Replace the matched span with a fixed mask token (default "\[REDACTED\]").
Hash hash Replace with a SHA-256 hash of the original value (truncated to 16 hex chars). Lets downstream consumers do equality joins without recovering the source.
TokenReplace token_replace Replace with a per-category running token ("\[PERSON_1\]", "\[PERSON_2\]", …) so the same person referenced twice gets the same token within the document.
Drop drop Delete the matched span entirely.

ReductionLevel

Intensity level for the token-reduction pipeline.

Variant Description
Off No reduction applied; text is returned as-is.
Light Remove only the most common stopwords.
Moderate Balanced stopword removal and redundancy filtering.
Aggressive Aggressive filtering; may remove less common content words.
Maximum Maximum compression; prioritizes brevity over completeness.

RerankerModelType

Reranker model types supported by Kreuzberg.

Since v5.0.

Variant Wire value Description
Preset preset Use a preset cross-encoder model (recommended). — Fields: name: String
Custom custom Use a custom ONNX cross-encoder from HuggingFace. — Fields: model_id: String, model_file: String, additional_files: Vec<String>, max_length: i64
Llm llm Provider-hosted reranker via liter-llm (e.g. Cohere, Jina, Voyage). The model in the nested LlmConfig must be a rerank-capable model ID (e.g. "cohere/rerank-english-v3.0"). — Fields: llm: LlmConfig
Plugin plugin In-process reranker registered via the plugin system. The caller registers a RerankerBackend once (e.g. a wrapper around a sentence-transformers cross-encoder or a provider client), then references it by name in config. Kreuzberg calls back into the registered backend — no HuggingFace download, no ONNX Runtime requirement. When this variant is selected, only max_rerank_duration_secs applies. Model-loading fields (batch_size, cache_dir, show_download_progress, acceleration) are ignored — the host owns the model lifecycle. See register_reranker_backend. — Fields: name: String

ResultFormat

Result-shape selection for extraction results.

Distinct from OutputFormat (which controls rendering — Plain, Markdown, HTML, etc.). ResultFormat controls the shape of the result: a unified content blob vs. an element-based decomposition.

Variant Wire value Description
Unified unified Unified format with all content in content field
ElementBased element_based Element-based format with semantic element extraction

SummaryStrategy

Summarisation strategy.

Variant Wire value Description
Extractive extractive Pure-Rust extractive summary (TextRank over the chunk graph). Deterministic, fast, no external service required.
Abstractive abstractive Abstractive summary produced by liter-llm. Requires liter-llm feature and a configured LlmConfig. Token usage is captured in ExtractionResult.llm_usage.

TableChunkingMode

Controls how markdown tables are handled when they exceed the chunk size limit.

Only applies when chunker_type is Markdown.

Variants

  • Split - Default behavior: tables are split at row boundaries like any other block element. Continuation chunks contain only data rows without the header, which can break downstream consumers that need column context.

  • RepeatHeader - Prepend the table header (header row + separator row) to every continuation chunk that contains data rows from the same table. Adds a small amount of duplicate text but ensures each chunk is self-contained for extraction, search, and LLM consumption.

Variant Wire value Description
Split split Split tables at row boundaries (default). Continuation chunks have no header.
RepeatHeader repeat_header Prepend the table header to every chunk that continues a split table.

TableModel

Which table structure recognition model to use.

Controls the model used for table cell detection within layout-detected table regions. Wire format is snake_case in all serializers (JSON, TOML, YAML).

Variant Wire value Description
Tatr tatr TATR (Table Transformer) -- default, 30MB, DETR-based row/column detection.
SlanetWired slanet_wired SLANeXT wired variant -- 365MB, optimized for bordered tables.
SlanetWireless slanet_wireless SLANeXT wireless variant -- 365MB, optimized for borderless tables.
SlanetPlus slanet_plus SLANet-plus -- 7.78MB, lightweight general-purpose.
SlanetAuto slanet_auto Classifier-routed SLANeXT: auto-select wired/wireless per table. Uses PP-LCNet classifier (6.78MB) + both SLANeXT variants (730MB total).
Disabled disabled Disable table structure model inference entirely; use heuristic path only.

TextDirection

Text direction enumeration for HTML documents.

Variant Wire value Description
LeftToRight ltr Left-to-right text direction
RightToLeft rtl Right-to-left text direction
Auto auto Automatic text direction detection

VlmFallbackPolicy

Policy controlling when VLM (Vision Language Model) OCR is used as a fallback.

This knob is syntactic sugar over the explicit OcrPipelineConfig stage ordering. When vlm_fallback is set and pipeline is None, an equivalent pipeline is synthesised at extraction time:

  • VlmFallbackPolicy.Disabled — no synthesis; single-backend mode (default).
  • VlmFallbackPolicy.OnLowQuality — tries the classical backend first; if the result scores below quality_threshold, tries VLM.

  • VlmFallbackPolicy.Always — skips the classical backend and sends every page to the VLM.

When OcrConfig.pipeline is explicitly set, vlm_fallback is ignored — the explicit pipeline takes precedence.

Errors:

Both OnLowQuality and Always require OcrConfig.vlm_config to be Some. Constructing an OcrConfig with one of these policies but no vlm_config is detected by OcrConfig.validate and will surface as a Validation error at extraction time, not a panic.

Variant Wire value Description
Disabled disabled No VLM fallback (default). Behaves identically to the pre-policy single-backend mode.
OnLowQuality on_low_quality Try the classical OCR backend first. If the quality score is below quality_threshold, send the page to the VLM. quality_threshold is in the \[0.0, 1.0\] range produced by calculate_quality_score. A value of 0.5 is a reasonable starting point; calibrate with the Stage 0 benchmark harness. — Fields: quality_threshold: f64
Always always Skip the classical OCR backend entirely. Every page is sent to the VLM.

WhisperModel

Supported Whisper model sizes.

These map to published ONNX exports on Hugging Face (onnx-community or similar orgs). The actual filenames and repos are resolved inside the transcription engine.

Variant Wire value Description
Tiny tiny Smallest, fastest, lowest quality. Good default for development and CI.
Base base Reasonable quality/speed tradeoff.
Small small Better accuracy with higher memory and cache use.
Medium medium High quality; slower and more memory-intensive.
LargeV3 large_v3 Best quality (large-v3). Use only when latency and memory use are acceptable.

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