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Pixel-Native RAG: A Practical Guide to Visual Document Indexing

August 4, 2026
in AI & Technology
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Pixel-Native RAG: A Practical Guide to Visual Document Indexing
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@dataclass
class Tile:
   tile_id: str
   doc_id: str
   source: str
   kind: str
   page: int
   seq: int
   y0: int
   y1: int
   path: str
   ocr_text: str = ""
   title: str = ""
def _doc_id_from_source(src: str) -> str:
   tail = src.rstrip("/").split("/")[-1] or src
   tail = re.sub(r"\.(html?|pdf|png|jpg)$", "", tail, flags=re.I)
   return re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9_.\-()]+", "_", tail)[:80] or hashlib.md5(src.encode()).hexdigest()[:10]
def _ahash(img, size: int = 8) -> int:
   """64-bit average hash — cheap near-duplicate detection for repeated headers."""
   import numpy as np
   g = img.convert("L").resize((size, size))
   a = np.asarray(g, dtype="float32")
   bits = (a > a.mean()).flatten()
   out = 0
   for b in bits:
       out = (out << 1) | int(b)
   return out
def _hamming(a: int, b: int) -> int:
   return bin(a ^ b).count("1")
def _is_informative(img, cfg: Config) -> bool:
   """Reject blank / solid-colour tiles before they ever reach the GPU."""
   import numpy as np
   a = np.asarray(img.convert("L"), dtype="float32")
   return float(a.std()) >= cfg.blank_std_threshold
def _save_tile(img, out_dir: Path, name: str) -> str:
   out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
   p = out_dir / f"{name}.png"
   img.convert("RGB").save(p, format="PNG", optimize=True)
   return str(p)
def slice_image_to_tiles(img, cfg: Config, *, doc_id: str, source: str, kind: str,
                        page: int, out_dir: Path, start_seq: int = 0,
                        seen_hashes: Optional[List[int]] = None,
                        title: str = "") -> List[Tile]:
   """Vertical sliding window with overlap. Used for PDFs and text fallback."""
   from PIL import Image
   seen_hashes = seen_hashes if seen_hashes is not None else []
   W, H = img.size
   if W != cfg.tile_width:
       new_h = max(1, int(H * cfg.tile_width / W))
       img = img.resize((cfg.tile_width, new_h))
       W, H = img.size
   step = max(1, cfg.tile_height - cfg.tile_overlap)
   tiles: List[Tile] = []
   y, seq = 0, start_seq
   while y < H and (seq - start_seq) < cfg.max_tiles_per_doc:
       h = min(cfg.tile_height, H - y)
       if h < cfg.min_tile_height and seq > start_seq:
           break
       crop = img.crop((0, y, W, y + h))
       if _is_informative(crop, cfg):
           hsh = _ahash(crop)
           if all(_hamming(hsh, s) > cfg.dedup_hamming for s in seen_hashes):
               seen_hashes.append(hsh)
               tid = f"{doc_id}__p{page}__t{seq}"
               tiles.append(Tile(
                   tile_id=tid, doc_id=doc_id, source=source, kind=kind, page=page,
                   seq=seq, y0=y, y1=y + h, title=title,
                   path=_save_tile(crop, out_dir, tid),
               ))
               seq += 1
       y += step
   return tiles
_JS_AUTOSCROLL = """
async () => {
 await new Promise((resolve) => {
   let y = 0;
   const timer = setInterval(() => {
     window.scrollBy(0, 800);
     y += 800;
     if (y >= document.body.scrollHeight || y > 40000) {
       clearInterval(timer);
       window.scrollTo(0, 0);
       setTimeout(resolve, 250);
     }
   }, 40);
 });
}
"""
_JS_FLATTEN = """
() => {
 document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach((el) => {
   const s = getComputedStyle(el);
   if (s.position === 'fixed' || s.position === 'sticky') el.style.position = 'absolute';
 });
 document.querySelectorAll('[role="dialog"], .cookie, #cookie-banner, .cc-banner')
   .forEach((el) => el.remove());
}
"""
_CSS_CLEANUP = """
* { animation: none !important; transition: none !important;
   scroll-behavior: auto !important; }
html { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }
video, iframe[src*="youtube"] { visibility: hidden !important; }
"""
_UA = ("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
      "Chrome/124.0 Safari/537.36 PixelRAG-Tutorial/1.0")
async def _render_urls_async(urls: List[str], cfg: Config, out_dir: Path) -> List[Tile]:
   from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
   from PIL import Image
   all_tiles: List[Tile] = []
   async with async_playwright() as pw:
       browser = await pw.chromium.launch(headless=True, args=cfg.headless_args)
       ctx = await browser.new_context(
           viewport={"width": cfg.tile_width, "height": cfg.tile_height},
           device_scale_factor=cfg.device_scale,
           user_agent=_UA,
           java_script_enabled=True,
       )
       for url in urls:
           doc_id = _doc_id_from_source(url)
           page = await ctx.new_page()
           try:
               await page.goto(url, wait_until="domcontentloaded", timeout=cfg.nav_timeout_ms)
               try:
                   await page.wait_for_load_state("networkidle", timeout=12000)
               except Exception:
                   pass
               await page.evaluate(_JS_AUTOSCROLL)
               await page.add_style_tag(content=_CSS_CLEANUP)
               await page.evaluate(_JS_FLATTEN)
               title = (await page.title()) or doc_id
               height = await page.evaluate(
                   "() => Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight, "
                   "document.documentElement.scrollHeight)")
               height = int(min(height, cfg.max_page_height))
               step = max(1, cfg.tile_height - cfg.tile_overlap)
               seen: List[int] = []
               y, seq = 0, 0
               while y < height and seq < cfg.max_tiles_per_doc:
                   h = min(cfg.tile_height, height - y)
                   if h < cfg.min_tile_height and seq > 0:
                       break
                   buf = await page.screenshot(
                       full_page=True, type="png",
                       clip={"x": 0, "y": y, "width": cfg.tile_width, "height": h})
                   img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(buf)).convert("RGB")
                   if img.size[0] != cfg.tile_width:
                       img = img.resize((cfg.tile_width,
                                         max(1, int(img.size[1] * cfg.tile_width / img.size[0]))))
                   if _is_informative(img, cfg):
                       hsh = _ahash(img)
                       if all(_hamming(hsh, s) > cfg.dedup_hamming for s in seen):
                           seen.append(hsh)
                           tid = f"{doc_id}__p0__t{seq}"
                           all_tiles.append(Tile(
                               tile_id=tid, doc_id=doc_id, source=url, kind="web",
                               page=0, seq=seq, y0=y, y1=y + h, title=title,
                               path=_save_tile(img, out_dir, tid)))
                           seq += 1
                   y += step
               log.info("  rendered %-34s -> %2d tiles (page %dpx)", doc_id, seq, height)
           except Exception as exc:
               log.warning("  FAILED %s (%s)", url, type(exc).__name__)
           finally:
               await page.close()
       await ctx.close()
       await browser.close()
   return all_tiles
def render_urls(urls: List[str], cfg: Config, out_dir: Path) -> List[Tile]:
   """Screenshot every URL into tiles; degrade to the text renderer on failure."""
   try:
       tiles = run_async(_render_urls_async(urls, cfg, out_dir))
       if tiles:
           return tiles
       log.warning("Browser produced no tiles — using text-render fallback.")
   except Exception as exc:
       log.warning("Playwright unavailable (%s: %s) — using text-render fallback.",
                   type(exc).__name__, str(exc)[:160])
   return [t for u in urls for t in render_url_as_text(u, cfg, out_dir)]
def _strip_html(html: str) -> str:
   html = re.sub(r"(?is)<(script|style|nav|footer|header|noscript).*?", " ", html)
   html = re.sub(r"(?s)", " ", html)
   html = re.sub(r"(?i)", "\n", html)
   text = re.sub(r"(?s)<[^>]+>", " ", html)
   for a, b in [(" ", " "), ("&", "&"), ("<", "<"), (">", ">"), (""", '"')]:
       text = text.replace(a, b)
   text = re.sub(r"\[\d+\]", "", text)
   text = re.sub(r"[ \t]+", " ", text)
   return re.sub(r"\n{2,}", "\n", text).strip()
def _mono_font(size: int = 20):
   from PIL import ImageFont
   for cand in ("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf",
                "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf"):
       if os.path.exists(cand):
           return ImageFont.truetype(cand, size)
   try:
       import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
       return ImageFont.truetype(fm.findfont("DejaVu Sans"), size)
   except Exception:
       return ImageFont.load_default()
def text_to_image(text: str, cfg: Config, title: str = "") -> Any:
   """Render plain text onto a tall white canvas — a browser-free stand-in."""
   from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
   font, tfont = _mono_font(20), _mono_font(30)
   pad, lh, wrap = 40, 30, max(20, (cfg.tile_width - 80) // 11)
   lines: List[str] = []
   for para in text.split("\n"):
       para = para.strip()
       if not para:
           continue
       while len(para) > wrap:
           cut = para.rfind(" ", 0, wrap)
           cut = cut if cut > 0 else wrap
           lines.append(para[:cut])
           para = para[cut:].lstrip()
       lines.append(para)
   lines = lines[:900]
   height = pad * 2 + 60 + lh * len(lines)
   img = Image.new("RGB", (cfg.tile_width, max(cfg.tile_height, height)), "white")
   d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
   d.text((pad, pad), title[:60], font=tfont, fill=(15, 15, 15))
   for i, ln in enumerate(lines):
       d.text((pad, pad + 60 + i * lh), ln, font=font, fill=(35, 35, 35))
   return img
def render_url_as_text(url: str, cfg: Config, out_dir: Path) -> List[Tile]:
   import requests
   doc_id = _doc_id_from_source(url)
   try:
       r = requests.get(url, timeout=30, headers={"User-Agent": _UA})
       r.raise_for_status()
       body = _strip_html(r.text)
       m = re.search(r"(?is)(.*?)", r.text)
       title = m.group(1).strip() if m else doc_id
   except Exception as exc:
       log.warning("  fetch failed for %s (%s)", url, type(exc).__name__)
       return []
   img = text_to_image(body, cfg, title=title)
   log.info("  text-rendered %-30s -> canvas %dpx", doc_id, img.size[1])
   return slice_image_to_tiles(img, cfg, doc_id=doc_id, source=url, kind="text",
                               page=0, out_dir=out_dir, title=title)
def render_pdf(pdf_path: str, cfg: Config, out_dir: Path, dpi: int = 150) -> List[Tile]:
   import fitz
   from PIL import Image
   doc_id = _doc_id_from_source(pdf_path)
   tiles: List[Tile] = []
   with fitz.open(pdf_path) as doc:
       title = (doc.metadata or {}).get("title") or doc_id
       n_pages = doc.page_count
       for pno in range(n_pages):
           pix = doc[pno].get_pixmap(dpi=dpi)
           img = Image.frombytes("RGB", (pix.width, pix.height), pix.samples)
           tiles += slice_image_to_tiles(img, cfg, doc_id=doc_id, source=pdf_path,
                                         kind="pdf", page=pno, out_dir=out_dir,
                                         title=title)
   log.info("  rendered %-34s -> %2d tiles (%d pages)", doc_id, len(tiles), n_pages)
   return tiles
def make_synthetic_pdf(path: Path) -> str:
   """A tiny PDF so the tutorial always exercises the PDF path, offline or not."""
   import fitz
   body = [
       ("PixelRAG Internal Note", 22),
       ("", 12),
       ("Why pixel-native retrieval?", 16),
       ("Parsers are per-site glue code. A renderer is one code path for every", 11),
       ("document type: HTML, PDF, scanned fax, spreadsheet export, dashboard.", 11),
       ("", 11),
       ("Tiling policy", 16),
       ("Tiles are 1024x1024 with 128px of vertical overlap. Overlap keeps a", 11),
       ("sentence or table row from being split across two embeddings, which is", 11),
       ("the single biggest source of recall loss in naive screenshot pipelines.", 11),
       ("", 11),
       ("Serving", 16),
       ("FAISS inner-product over L2-normalised vectors equals cosine similarity.", 11),
       ("Tile scores are max-pooled per document so one strong tile can surface", 11),
       ("a long page, mirroring late-interaction retrieval behaviour.", 11),
       ("", 11),
       ("The mitochondria reference is a joke; the overlap advice is not.", 11),
   ]
   doc = fitz.open()
   page = doc.new_page()
   y = 72
   for line, size in body:
       page.insert_text((72, y), line, fontsize=size, fontname="helv")
       y += size + 8
   doc.save(str(path))
   doc.close()
   return str(path)

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