The outer exception boundary also absorbs accidental TypeError and KeyError, so asserting only the exception class could not tell an explicit validation from a lucky failure. Assert the reason for nested blocks and guard every rejection against an accidental cause.
Reuses the existing retry, breaker, limiter and telemetry loop; the transport capability is checked once before the statistics boundary. Legacy entrances keep their error text. Tests cover the document path through the real transport so parser exceptions, deadlines and probe bookkeeping are proven end to end.
Unrecognizable bytes are rejected before any request. The result package is downloaded as a stream with a cumulative size cap, and error statuses are classified before the size check. Parsing runs in a worker thread so cancellation and call deadlines stay effective. parse_layout shares the first protocol stage without behavior change.
Content comes from the middle json and its paired markdown; the content list is deliberately ignored because it escapes markdown characters. The external-data exception boundary covers both reading and structure parsing so no native exception escapes the OCR client. The layout parser is unchanged.