pipeline

Adding tesseract to an ingest pipeline turned out to be less about the CLI and more about ordering, the img caption convention, quarantine, and empty output.

TL;DR: A media ingest job stalled with media-blocked status after tesseract went unregistered, previously blocking every job including audio-only ones. The fix narrows preflight so OCR is only mandatory for image-only jobs, splitting failures into plan-blocking versus quarantine-worthy problems. Empty OCR output counts as success with evidence recorded, while infrastructure timeouts retry and corrupt content gets quarantined for healing.

Building a free article draft generator from chat.qwen.ai via automated browser: mechanics, pitfalls, and fallback that make it cron-worthy.