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// File:        colpartitionset.h
// Description: Class to hold a list of ColPartitions of the page that
//              correspond roughly to columns.
// Author:      Ray Smith
// Created:     Thu Aug 14 10:50:01 PDT 2008
//
// (C) Copyright 2008, Google Inc.
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
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//

#ifndef TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITIONSET_H_
#define TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITIONSET_H_

#include "colpartition.h"   // For ColPartition_LIST.
#include "genericvector.h"  // For GenericVector.
#include "rect.h"           // For TBOX.
#include "tabvector.h"      // For BLOBNBOX_CLIST.

namespace tesseract {

class WorkingPartSet_LIST;
class ColSegment_LIST;
class ColPartitionSet;
using PartSetVector = GenericVector<ColPartitionSet*>;

// ColPartitionSet is a class that holds a list of ColPartitions.
// Its main use is in holding a candidate partitioning of the width of the
// image into columns, where each member ColPartition is a single column.
// ColPartitionSets are used in building the column layout of a page.
class ColPartitionSet : public ELIST_LINK {
 public:
  ColPartitionSet() = default;
  explicit ColPartitionSet(ColPartition_LIST* partitions);
  explicit ColPartitionSet(ColPartition* partition);

  ~ColPartitionSet() = default;

  // Simple accessors.
  const TBOX& bounding_box() const {
    return bounding_box_;
  }
  bool Empty() const {
    return parts_.empty();
  }
  int ColumnCount() const {
    return parts_.length();
  }

  // Returns the number of columns of good width.
  int GoodColumnCount() const;

  // Return an element of the parts_ list from its index.
  ColPartition* GetColumnByIndex(int index);

  // Return the ColPartition that contains the given coords, if any, else nullptr.
  ColPartition* ColumnContaining(int x, int y);

  // Return the bounding boxes of columns at the given y-range
  void GetColumnBoxes(int y_bottom, int y_top, ColSegment_LIST *segments);

  // Extract all the parts from the list, relinquishing ownership.
  void RelinquishParts();

  // Attempt to improve this by adding partitions or expanding partitions.
  void ImproveColumnCandidate(WidthCallback* cb, PartSetVector* src_sets);

  // If this set is good enough to represent a new partitioning into columns,
  // add it to the vector of sets, otherwise delete it.
  void AddToColumnSetsIfUnique(PartSetVector* column_sets, WidthCallback* cb);

  // Return true if the partitions in other are all compatible with the columns
  // in this.
  bool CompatibleColumns(bool debug, ColPartitionSet* other, WidthCallback* cb);

  // Returns the total width of all blobs in the part_set that do not lie
  // within an approved column. Used as a cost measure for using this
  // column set over another that might be compatible.
  int UnmatchedWidth(ColPartitionSet* part_set);

  // Return true if this ColPartitionSet makes a legal column candidate by
  // having legal individual partitions and non-overlapping adjacent pairs.
  bool LegalColumnCandidate();

  // Return a copy of this. If good_only will only copy the Good ColPartitions.
  ColPartitionSet* Copy(bool good_only);

  // Display the edges of the columns at the given y coords.
  void DisplayColumnEdges(int y_bottom, int y_top, ScrollView* win);

  // Return the ColumnSpanningType that best explains the columns overlapped
  // by the given coords(left,right,y), with the given margins.
  // Also return the first and last column index touched by the coords and
  // the leftmost spanned column.
  // Column indices are 2n + 1 for real columns (0 based) and even values
  // represent the gaps in between columns, with 0 being left of the leftmost.
  // resolution refers to the ppi resolution of the image. It may be 0 if only
  // the first_col and last_col are required.
  ColumnSpanningType SpanningType(int resolution,
                                  int left, int right, int height, int y,
                                  int left_margin, int right_margin,
                                  int* first_col, int* last_col,
                                  int* first_spanned_col);

  // The column_set has changed. Close down all in-progress WorkingPartSets in
  // columns that do not match and start new ones for the new columns in this.
  // As ColPartitions are turned into BLOCKs, the used ones are put in
  // used_parts, as they still need to be referenced in the grid.
  void ChangeWorkColumns(const ICOORD& bleft, const ICOORD& tright,
                         int resolution, ColPartition_LIST* used_parts,
                         WorkingPartSet_LIST* working_set);

  // Accumulate the widths and gaps into the given variables.
  void AccumulateColumnWidthsAndGaps(int* total_width, int* width_samples,
                                     int* total_gap, int* gap_samples);

  // Provide debug output for this ColPartitionSet and all the ColPartitions.
  void Print();

 private:
  // Add the given partition to the list in the appropriate place.
  void AddPartition(ColPartition* new_part, ColPartition_IT* it);

  // Compute the coverage and good column count. Coverage is the amount of the
  // width of the page (in pixels) that is covered by ColPartitions, which are
  // used to provide candidate column layouts.
  // Coverage is split into good and bad. Good coverage is provided by
  // ColPartitions of a frequent width (according to the callback function
  // provided by TabFinder::WidthCB, which accesses stored statistics on the
  // widths of ColParititions) and bad coverage is provided by all other
  // ColPartitions, even if they have tab vectors at both sides. Thus:
  // |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
  // |        Double     width    heading                              |
  // |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
  // |-------------------------------| |-------------------------------|
  // |   Common width ColParition    | |  Common width ColPartition    |
  // |-------------------------------| |-------------------------------|
  // the layout with two common-width columns has better coverage than the
  // double width heading, because the coverage is "good," even though less in
  // total coverage than the heading, because the heading coverage is "bad."
  void ComputeCoverage();

  // Adds the coverage, column count and box for a single partition,
  // without adding it to the list. (Helper factored from ComputeCoverage.)
  void AddPartitionCoverageAndBox(const ColPartition& part);

  // The partitions in this column candidate.
  ColPartition_LIST parts_;
  // The number of partitions that have a frequent column width.
  int good_column_count_;
  // Total width of all the good ColPartitions.
  int good_coverage_;
  // Total width of all the bad ColPartitions.
  int bad_coverage_;
  // Bounding box of all partitions in the set.
  TBOX bounding_box_;
};

ELISTIZEH(ColPartitionSet)

}  // namespace tesseract.

#endif  // TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITION_H_