Unlimited-OCR — segment a composite figure into panels

Self-Evolving Skill: improves through use. The behaviour below was measured, not assumed — see ../../references/EMPIRICAL.md. Fix this file the moment a claim stops holding.

Why this exists

Unlimited-OCR localises charts and transcribes nothing inside them. Fed a 1080×1504 image containing nine matplotlib panels, it returned nine <|det|>chart [box]<|/det|> markers with perfect boundaries and zero characters of text — not even the panel titles, which were legible.

That is a dead end if you wanted a transcription. It is excellent if you wanted a segmenter: the boxes were accurate enough to crop nine clean, individually-interpretable panels out of one dense collage.

The pipeline that follows from it: