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Opt-in raster fallback on /api/v1/enhance

A new options.acceptRasterFallback flag lets /api/v1/enhance keep going when individual pages can't be reconstructed — failed pages embed as tagged Figure rasters of the original instead of flipping the call to a free partial preview. The output is labelled hybrid and bills at the full per-page rate.

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With options.acceptRasterFallback: true, pages the regenerate pipeline can't reconstruct no longer flip the entire upload to a free partial preview — they're embedded as a tagged <Figure> containing a raster of the original page, with /Alt populated from the pdftotext slice for that page.

The default behaviour is unchanged: any page failure still returns partial: true with no credits deducted. The flag is per-request and explicit — there's no workspace-wide "always accept fallback" toggle.

When the flag is set and at least one page falls back, the response shape switches to:

{
  "partial": false,
  "hybrid": true,
  "pdfBase64": "…",
  "report": {
    "pageCount": 5,
    "successfulPages": 3,
    "rasterFallbackPages": [2, 4],
    // …
  },
  "source": {
    "dslJson": "…",
    "markdown": null,
    "markdownAvailable": false,
    "markdownReason": "hybrid output (raster-fallback pages cannot be expressed as markdown)",
  },
}

The mix is disclosed in three places so a downstream consumer can detect it without reading every page: the hybrid: true envelope flag, the report.rasterFallbackPages list, a visible cover page at the front of the PDF listing the fallback page numbers, and a makespdf:hybrid-output = true entry in the document XMP metadata. The X-Enhance-Outcome response header is hybrid instead of full.

Hybrid is billed at the full per-page rate (1 credit / page across the original page count) — the customer opted in and got a usable PDF. Use it for legacy archive bulk uploads where a hybrid-but-honest output beats no deliverable; stay on the default partial path when you'd rather re-submit the broken page than archive a raster of it.