date: 2026-05-29 project: daily-bill-scan
Session goal: Run bill scanner, process downloaded attachments.
Progress log:
- 09:19 — Ran
bill-scanner.py --scan: found 3 flagged emails (IDs 111, 110, 826). Downloaded 2 PDF attachments (ID 111 = Unitywater bill + info sheet). - 09:19 — Attempted GPU OCR via
--process-attachments. Blocked:No module named 'fitz'(PyMuPDF not installed, no pip in container). - 09:20 — Checked for alternative PDF tools — pdftoppm, pdfinfo, gs all absent. No poppler-utils installed.
- 09:21 — Tried raw binary extraction from Unitywater Bill (455KB) — PDF uses compressed font streams; inline text is fragmented/encoded. Only extracted metadata (g2p_params, dates: “27 May 2026”, fragment dollar amounts). Cannot reconstruct bill content without a proper PDF parser.
- 09:22 — Tested browser tools for rendering — CDP WebSocket connection refused on all calls (browser_vision, browser_snapshot, browser_navigate). Camofox-browser-service unreachable from this pod.
- 09:25 — Concluded: bill scanner detects correctly but OCR pipeline is broken end-to-end. Three infrastructure gaps: no PyMuPDF (
fitz), no poppler CLI tools, and no reachable CDP browser service for image-based OCR fallback.
Outputs:
- 3 flagged emails identified (IDs 111, 110, 826)
- 2 PDF attachments downloaded to
/opt/data/bills/attachments/111/ - No bill amounts or due dates extracted — stuck at PDF rendering step
Issues / Questions:
- BLOCKED: Need either (a) PyMuPDF installed (
pip install pymupdf) or (b) poppler-utils forpdftoppmconversion, or (c) a working CDP browser endpoint. Without one of these, PDF attachment processing is stalled. - GPU OCR pipeline timeout issue (pre-existing, logged in index.md) still active.
Status: blocked