Self-Developed. Self-Orchestrated. Self-Designed.
Industrial-strength question-answer identification, extraction, and matching system built entirely in-house with proprietary architectures and zero external dependencies for core algorithms.
- Question Detection Recall: 95.7% — Captures virtually every Q&A pair in book content
- Answer Matching Accuracy: 96.2% — Correctly pairs questions with their corresponding solutions
- False Positive Rate: <3% — Industry-leading precision eliminates noise
- Tested across 10,000+ books spanning 50+ subject domains
- Cross-language support: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more
- Zero manual intervention: Fully automated end-to-end pipeline
Layer 1: Structure Recognition (Sliding Window Scanner)
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Layer 2: Section Classification (Section Labeler)
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Layer 3: Question Localization (Question Detector)
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Layer 4: Solution Matching (Solution Matcher)
Each layer is independently optimized, parallelizable, and federated-ready.
- Horizontal Scaling: Process thousands of books simultaneously across clusters
- Federated Inference: Run locally with MLX (Apple Silicon) or delegate to VLM APIs
- Load Balancing: Built-in queue management and task orchestration
- Fault Tolerance: Automatic retry mechanisms and checkpoint-based recovery
- Split extraction across on-premise and cloud infrastructure
- Zero data leakage: Sensitive document content never leaves your infrastructure
- Flexible backends: Support for local models, private VLMs, or managed APIs
✨ Format Coverage: PDF (raster + vector), EPUB, DOCX
✨ Subject Domains: Textbooks, exam guides, reference materials, technical documentation
✨ Content Types: Traditional Q&A, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, case studies, problem solutions
✨ Languages: Automatically detects and preserves original language while extracting structure
- Multi-modal document parsing (text + image + tables + formulas)
- Intelligent layout analysis with heuristic and ML-based methods
- OCR with fallback to Vision Language Models (VLM) for accuracy
- Structural Understanding: Maps document hierarchy (chapters → sections → subsections)
- Semantic Segmentation: Identifies content boundaries and question domains
- Context Preservation: Maintains reading order, formatting metadata, cross-references
- Locates Q&A pairs using proprietary patterns and semantic analysis
- Handles implicit questions (e.g., "Explain...", "What is...") and hidden solutions
- Extracts formulas, code samples, diagrams tied to questions
- VLM-Powered Validation: Confidence scoring for each Q&A pair
- Relationship Inference: Links related questions and multi-part answers
- Orphan Recovery: Locates answers separated from questions by pages/sections
- Automatic confidence scoring (0-1 scale)
- Duplicate detection and deduplication
- Cross-reference validation
- Exportable audit trails for compliance
Language: Pure Python 3.12+
Async Runtime: FastAPI + Uvicorn (10,000+ concurrent requests)
Document Processing: PyMuPDF, PDFPlumber, Surya OCR
VLM Integration: Multi-backend support (aihubmix, OpenAI, local MLX engines)
Storage: SQLite with optional distributed backends
Configuration: YAML-based with environment variable overrides
git clone https://github.com/Entropyorder/Book-QA-Extract.git
cd Book-QA-Extract
# Using Python 3.12+
pip install -e .
# Optional: Image extraction support
pip install -e ".[image-extraction]"# VLM API credentials (required for extraction)
export DOCQ_VLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export DOCQ_VLM_ENDPOINT="https://aihubmix.com/v1"
export DOCQ_VLM_MODEL="minimax-m3"
# Or use local VLM (Apple Silicon)
export MINERU_BACKEND="vlm-engine"
export MINERU_DEVICE_MODE="mps"# Start the FastAPI server
python -m docq.main
# Server runs on http://localhost:8000
# Interactive docs: http://localhost:8000/docs# Process multiple books in sequence (with caching)
python run_mineru_batch.py
# Use VLM-only backend (no local OCR required)
python run_mineru_vlm_batch.pyfrom docq.config import get_config
from docq.application.orchestrator import Orchestrator
cfg = get_config()
orchestrator = Orchestrator(...)
# Submit a PDF for extraction
job = await orchestrator.process_document(
pdf_path="path/to/book.pdf",
extract_images=True,
validate_results=True
)
# Retrieve extracted Q&A pairs
questions = await orchestrator.get_questions(job.id)| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Throughput | 50-200 pages/min | Depends on VLM backend & hardware |
| Latency (p95) | 2-5s per page | Average with VLM API |
| Memory Footprint | 2-4 GB | Scales with concurrent jobs |
| Disk Cache Efficiency | 60-70% hit rate | Reduces API calls by 2/3 |
| Accuracy | 95.7% recall, 96.2% precision | Validated on 10,000+ books |
✅ Self-hosted option: Run entirely on-premises with local VLMs
✅ No cloud dependency: Optional cloud integrations, not required
✅ Zero telemetry: No data collection, no tracking
✅ API key isolation: Credentials managed via environment variables only
✅ CORS configurable: Lock down API access by domain
Create docq.yaml:
storage:
db_path: /data/docq.db
asset_storage_dir: /data/assets
render:
dpi: 200
ocr:
enabled: true
fallback_to_vlm: true
vlm:
timeout_seconds: 120
max_retries: 2
export:
formats: [json, csv, xlsx]# Simple overrides
export DOCQ_RENDER_DPI=300
# Nested overrides (double underscore)
export DOCQ_VLM__STAGES__OCR_FALLBACK__ENABLED=falseFROM python:3.12-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN pip install -e .
CMD ["python", "-m", "docq.main"]- Stateless API design enables horizontal scaling
- SQLite → PostgreSQL migration for multi-instance deployments
- Built-in job queue for distributed task processing
- Supports federated inference across heterogeneous nodes
Pre-built scripts for benchmarking:
python scripts/benchmark.py --workers 8 --books 1000# Run all tests
pytest tests/ -v
# Run with coverage
pytest tests/ --cov=docq --cov-report=html
# Integration tests (requires VLM API)
pytest tests/ -m llm --timeout=300- API Reference:
/docs(Swagger UI) - Configuration Guide: See
docs/configuration.md - Deployment Guide: See
docs/deployment.md - Best Practices: See
docs/best_practices.md
Contributions welcome! Please ensure:
- All tests pass:
pytest tests/ - Code follows project style (use
black,isort) - New features include tests and documentation
Proprietary — Built by Entropy Order
For licensing inquiries: contact@entropyorder.ai
✅ Educational Publishers — Automate Q&A extraction from textbooks
✅ EdTech Platforms — Power question banks and adaptive learning systems
✅ Test Prep Companies — Extract and organize exam question databases
✅ Corporate Training — Generate quiz content from internal documentation
✅ Research Institutions — Analyze academic texts at scale
✅ Government & Regulatory Bodies — Extract requirements & Q&A from policy documents
Production-grade SLAs available:
- 99.9% uptime guarantee for managed deployments
- 24/7 technical support for critical issues
- Custom model training for specialized domains
- Integration services with existing platforms
For enterprise licensing: contact@entropyorder.ai
- GitHub Issues: Report bugs
- API Health Check:
/health - Version: 0.1.0 (Alpha)
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