feat: make pymupdf an optional [images] extra

The default install stays permissively licensed (PyMuPDF is AGPL). Text
extraction is PyPDF2 everywhere; image extraction requires
pip install "pageindex[images]" and degrades to text-only with a
one-time warning when PyMuPDF is absent.

README.md

@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ A unified `PageIndexClient` powers both local self-hosted and cloud-managed mode
 pip install pageindex
 ```
 
+Local-mode image extraction uses PyMuPDF (AGPL-licensed) and is an optional extra: `pip install "pageindex[images]"`. Without it, local indexing is text-only.
+
 ### Quick start
 
 ```python

pageindex/index/utils.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import re
 import asyncio
 import threading
 import PyPDF2
-import pymupdf
 import yaml
 from datetime import datetime
 from io import BytesIO
@@ -817,6 +816,7 @@ def get_page_tokens(pdf_path, model=None, pdf_parser="PyPDF2"):
             page_list.append((page_text, token_length))
         return page_list
     elif pdf_parser == "PyMuPDF":
+        import pymupdf  # optional dependency: pip install pageindex[images]
         if isinstance(pdf_path, BytesIO):
             pdf_stream = pdf_path
             doc = pymupdf.open(stream=pdf_stream, filetype="pdf")

pageindex/parser/pdf.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+import logging
 import PyPDF2
-import pymupdf
 from pathlib import Path
 from .protocol import ContentNode, ParsedDocument
 from ..tokens import count_tokens
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ from ..tokens import count_tokens
 # Minimum image dimension to keep (skip icons/artifacts)
 _MIN_IMAGE_SIZE = 32
 
+_warned_no_pymupdf = False
+
 
 class PdfParser:
     def supported_extensions(self) -> list[str]:
@@ -17,16 +19,10 @@ class PdfParser:
         model = kwargs.get("model")
         images_dir = kwargs.get("images_dir")
 
-        # Images are extracted with PyMuPDF (PyPDF2 cannot); text stays with
+        # Images are extracted with PyMuPDF (optional extra); text stays with
         # PyPDF2 below so the extracted text — and therefore the tree — matches
         # the CLI / pre-SDK default.
-        page_images: dict[int, list[dict]] = {}
-        if images_dir:
-            with pymupdf.open(str(path)) as doc:
-                for i, page in enumerate(doc):
-                    images = self._extract_page_images(page, i + 1, images_dir)
-                    if images:
-                        page_images[i + 1] = images
+        page_images = self._extract_images(path, images_dir) if images_dir else {}
 
         reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(str(path))
         nodes = []
@@ -49,9 +45,33 @@ class PdfParser:
         return ParsedDocument(doc_name=path.stem, nodes=nodes,
                               metadata={"page_count": len(reader.pages)})
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_images(path: Path, images_dir: str) -> dict[int, list[dict]]:
+        """Extract images per page. Requires the optional PyMuPDF dependency;
+        without it, indexing proceeds text-only."""
+        global _warned_no_pymupdf
+        try:
+            import pymupdf
+        except ImportError:
+            if not _warned_no_pymupdf:
+                logging.getLogger(__name__).warning(
+                    "PyMuPDF is not installed; skipping image extraction. "
+                    'Install with: pip install "pageindex[images]"')
+                _warned_no_pymupdf = True
+            return {}
+
+        page_images: dict[int, list[dict]] = {}
+        with pymupdf.open(str(path)) as doc:
+            for i, page in enumerate(doc):
+                images = PdfParser._extract_page_images(page, i + 1, images_dir)
+                if images:
+                    page_images[i + 1] = images
+        return page_images
+
     @staticmethod
     def _extract_page_images(page, page_num: int, images_dir: str) -> list[dict]:
         """Save a page's images to disk and return their metadata."""
+        import pymupdf
         images_path = Path(images_dir)
         images_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         # Store an absolute path so the ![image](...) reference resolves

pyproject.toml

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ packages = [{include = "pageindex"}]
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.10"
 litellm = ">=1.83.0"
-pymupdf = ">=1.26.0"
+# AGPL-licensed; optional so the default install stays permissively licensed.
+pymupdf = {version = ">=1.26.0", optional = true}
 PyPDF2 = ">=3.0.0"
 python-dotenv = ">=1.0.0"
 pyyaml = ">=6.0"
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ httpx = {extras = ["socks"], version = ">=0.28.1"}
 typing-extensions = ">=4.9.0"
 pydantic = ">=2.5.0,<3.0.0"
 
+[tool.poetry.extras]
+images = ["pymupdf"]
+
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 pytest = ">=7.0"