fix: coordinates bug on pdf parsing

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.10.16-dev2
+## 0.10.16
 
 
 ### Enhancements
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+* ***Fixes an issue that caused a partition error for some PDF's.** Fixes GH Issue 1460 by bypassing a coordinate check if an element has invalid coordinates.
 ## 0.10.15
 
 ### Enhancements

test_unstructured/partition/pdf-image/test_pdf.py

@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_strategy(
         assert element.metadata.filename == "layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf"
 
 
+def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_neg_coordinates():
+    filename = "example-docs/negative-coords.pdf"
+    elements = pdf.partition_pdf(filename=filename, url=None, strategy="fast")
+    assert len(elements) == 5
+    assert elements[0].metadata.coordinates.points[0][0] < 0
+    assert elements[0].metadata.coordinates.points[1][0] < 0
+
+
 def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_groups_text(
     filename="example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf",
 ):

unstructured/__version__.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.10.16-dev2"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.10.16"  # pragma: no cover

unstructured/partition/pdf.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     FileType,
     add_metadata_with_filetype,
 )
-from unstructured.logger import logger
+from unstructured.logger import logger, trace_logger
 from unstructured.nlp.patterns import PARAGRAPH_PATTERN
 from unstructured.partition.common import (
     convert_to_bytes,
@@ -761,7 +761,10 @@ def check_coords_within_boundary(
         a float ranges from [0,1] to scale the horizontal (x-axis) boundary
     """
     if not coord_has_valid_points(coordinates) and not coord_has_valid_points(boundary):
-        raise ValueError("Invalid coordinates.")
+        trace_logger.detail(  # type: ignore
+            f"coordinates {coordinates} and boundary {boundary} did not pass validation",
+        )
+        return False
 
     boundary_x_min = boundary.points[0][0]
     boundary_x_max = boundary.points[2][0]