pagepiper/docs/user-guide/library.md
pyr0ball f941ebdeeb feat: add ODT and Apple Pages document support, wire DOCX into UI
Extends Pagepiper's document shelving pipeline (renamed from "ingest" —
see below) to cover the formats most likely to appear in a real-world
engineering document corpus, prompted by scoping a STERIS licensing pitch
that needs DOCX/ODT coverage.

- Rename the ingest pipeline to "shelve" throughout (scripts/, app/api,
  tests, docs, frontend). "Glean" (Turnstone's term) was considered and
  rejected — that's a harvest metaphor for log/knowledge extraction,
  not a fit for documents entering a library. Documented as a general
  CF naming principle in the org-level CLAUDE.md.
- Wire DOCX into the upload/scan UI, README, and docs — the extraction
  logic (heading-based chunking, table serialization) already existed
  but wasn't exposed to users or covered by tests.
- Add ODT support via odfpy, mirroring DOCX's chunking strategy.
- Add Apple Pages support via headless LibreOffice conversion to ODT.
  No maintained Python library parses the IWA format directly; libreoffice
  bundles libetonyek, the only real open-source Pages parser. Adds
  libreoffice-writer to the Docker image (~300-400MB) for this.
- 24 new/updated tests across shelve_docx, shelve_odt, and shelve_pages;
  full suite (72 tests) passing.

Known gaps not addressed here: no Windchill/DocPortal connector exists
yet (metadata-only PowerShell recon only), Excel/.xlsx is unsupported,
and circuitforge_core.tasks.dispatch_task does not currently exist in
circuitforge-core — cf-orch dispatch is dead code, always falling
through to local BackgroundTasks. See
circuitforge-plans/pagepiper/superpowers/plans/2026-07-10-steris-licensing-pitch.md
for the full writeup.
2026-07-10 13:58:43 -07:00

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# Library
The library is the home screen. It shows all indexed documents and lets you add new ones.
## Adding documents
**Upload** — click **Upload PDF / EPUB / DOCX / ODT / Pages** and select a file. Files up to 200 MB are accepted. The document is saved to `data/uploads/` and queued for indexing immediately.
**Scan** — set `PAGEPIPER_WATCH_DIR` to a directory in your `.env`, then click **Scan for PDFs**. Any PDF, EPUB, DOCX, ODT, or Pages file not already in the library is queued. Re-scanning is safe; already-indexed documents are skipped.
## Document states
| Badge | Meaning |
|-------|---------|
| PROCESSING | Text extraction or embedding in progress |
| READY | Fully indexed and searchable |
| ERROR | Indexing failed — see the error message on the card |
## Shelving progress
While a document is processing, its card shows a live progress bar:
- Animated sliding bar while text is being extracted (before page count is known)
- "Embedding N / M pages (X%)" once vectors are being written
The card refreshes automatically and emits a library reload when indexing completes.
## Re-indexing
Click **Re-index** on any document card to re-run the full shelve pipeline. This is useful after:
- Changing the `PAGEPIPER_EMBED_MODEL` (dimension mismatch auto-detected at startup, but you can also trigger manually)
- A failed shelve you want to retry
- Updating to a new version of Pagepiper with an improved extractor
## Removing a document
Click **Remove** to delete the document's metadata, page chunks, and vectors. The source file on disk is not deleted.
## Storage
All data lives in the directory set by `PAGEPIPER_DATA_DIR` (default: `data/`):
| File | Contents |
|------|---------|
| `pagepiper.db` | Document metadata, page chunks, chat feedback |
| `pagepiper_vecs.db` | sqlite-vec vector store |
| `uploads/` | Files added via browser upload |