diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ecf1b82
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## 2024-04-17 - YOLO Stdout Blocking Overhead
+**Learning:** Ultralytics YOLO models output verbose logs to stdout synchronously during `model.predict()`, which introduces significant blocking overhead when called inside loops or multiple times.
+**Action:** Always pass `verbose=False` to `model.predict()` when doing batched or loop-based inference to bypass this synchronous blocking and improve performance.
diff --git a/commonforms/inference.py b/commonforms/inference.py
index 527925f..1d805cd 100644
--- a/commonforms/inference.py
+++ b/commonforms/inference.py
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ def extract_widgets(
                     conf=confidence,
                     augment=False,
                     imgsz=ONNX_IMAGE_SIZE,
+                    verbose=False, # Optimization: avoid synchronous stdout blocking overhead during loops
                 )
                 for p in pages
             ]
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ def extract_widgets(
                 augment=True,
                 imgsz=image_size,
                 device=self.device,
+                verbose=False, # Optimization: avoid synchronous stdout blocking overhead during loops
             )
 
         widgets = {}