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Marc-André Bombeck df6d20b696 fix(documents): read a PDF the server cannot render by its text layer
On a host whose CPU cannot run the page renderer (x64 without AVX2, arm64
musl without LSE/RCpc), every AI read of a PDF for a provider that only
takes images failed with "Scanning PDFs needs a Claude vision provider",
which says nothing about the cause. Most medical PDFs are produced
digitally and carry every word in their text layer, which pdf.js reads
without rendering.

`prepareVisionInput` now answers a text read (`mode: "text"`) when the
renderer is unavailable on this host, the provider cannot take the PDF
whole and the PDF has a usable text layer. Summary, suggest and the
background summary send that text through their existing text mode;
"Read with AI" and the index backfill write it as the local text index it
is, with no provider call; the automatic index leaves it to its local path.
`planVisionReads` does the same for the extraction and the lab scan: text
reads by page group, with anchored provenance, and the pages without a text
layer reported as `extractionIncomplete` on a document and as `unreadPages`
on a lab scan. A supplement label PDF is read from its text layer too.

A scan on such a host now answers `documents.inbound.pdfRendererUnavailable`
and `labs.ocr.pdfRendererUnavailable` (422): this server's processor cannot
run the page renderer, so a scanned PDF can only be read by a provider that
takes PDF files directly, or as photos. The `pdfNeedsAnthropic` codes are no
longer emitted, since with a working renderer every provider reads a PDF;
the recorded index outcome keeps its `pdf-needs-anthropic` value with
corrected copy.

The extraction path no longer folds a render failure of one document into
the capability error: like `prepareVisionInput` since #776 it reports
"The PDF pages couldn't be rendered for scanning." (`extractFailed`), and
the lab scan answers `labs.ocr.extractFailed`.

Hosts that render, and providers that take PDFs whole, are unchanged.

Refs #1311
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docs/ — internal reference + operator playbooks

The user-facing documentation lives at https://docs.healthlog.dev — that's the canonical surface for self-hosting guides, integration walkthroughs, AI-provider setup, and the doctor-report workflow.

The files in this directory are the internal operator playbooks, audit notes, and machine-readable specs that ship alongside the source:

  • api/ — the OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the native-client subset (iOS DTO codegen target). See api/README.md for the preview commands. Also home to the MCP-server contract: api/mcp-capabilities.md (tools, resources, prompts, write model) and api/mcp-skills.md (building a connector / skill).
  • ops/ — operator runbooks: deploy, backup / restore, encryption-key rotation, password reset and account recovery, env checks, TLS pinning, data repair. These are what an operator reaches for during an incident.
  • self-hosting/ — operator notes next to the code: getting-started.md (install and updates, the page the boot log points at), the TrueNAS, Unraid and Portainer installs with their catalog templates, Tailscale, the reverse proxy, horizontal scaling (HEALTHLOG_PROCESS_TYPE=web|worker|all), notification channels, the environment module, document sources and reproductive-health data. Includes self-hosting/mcp.md — enabling the off-by-default MCP connector and pointing Claude.ai / ChatGPT / Claude Desktop at it, and self-hosting/sso.md — OIDC SSO login: IdP setup, the identity-pinning security model, OIDC_ONLY consequences, and the break-glass runbook. Also self-hosting/geolite2.md — bringing your own offline GeoLite2 databases via GEOLITE2_DIR instead of sending login IPs to a third-party lookup. And self-hosting/account-sharing.md — letting one account on the instance open another's health record: the three access levels, the eight sections a grant can be narrowed to, managed profiles for somebody with no login and the guardians who look after them, what revocation does and does not undo, and which trust properties of the instance are unchanged by any of it. And self-hosting/support.md — reporting a problem: error ids, the support info every account can copy, the operator's redacted support report, and finding an error in the admin log.
  • using/ — notes on using the app that sit close to the code. using/search.md covers the command palette's record search: opening it, what it finds, how matching works, and its limits on very large and shared records.
  • migration/ — migration notes. Currently only v1.3 to v1.4; later releases are covered by CHANGELOG.md and https://docs.healthlog.dev.
  • integrations/ — per-integration reference: Withings, WHOOP, Fitbit, Google Health, Strava, Nightscout, Dawarich and the Garmin route; the Apple Health, Health Connect, document and data imports; AI providers; and Home Assistant with its blueprint. Oura and Polar are covered on the docs site only.
  • adr/ — architecture decision records.
  • security/ — threat-model notes.
  • diagrams/ — architecture diagrams rendered through docs.healthlog.dev.
  • releases/ — release imagery.
  • apple-store-connect-checklist.md — the iOS submission gate.
  • codex-protocol-spec.md — Codex / ChatGPT OAuth protocol reverse-engineering notes.
  • contributing/ui-standards.md — the binding UI standards: card anatomy, spacing, text colour, tokens and which primitive to use where. Read before touching any surface.
  • contributing/benchmarks.md — the large-account benchmark (latency and statements per request) and the statement budgets on the hot routes.
  • contributing/testing.md — which suite a test belongs in, the route test kit, the integration database, sharding, property and mutation tests, and the flaky-test quarantine.
  • ui-guidelines.md — UI / a11y house style; where it disagrees with the UI standards, the standards win.

If you're a self-hoster looking to spin up an instance, start at https://docs.healthlog.dev or jump to the Quick Start in the project README.