Changelog

0.2.3 (2020-08-31)

• Config: make Config.cfg_path public attribute

• Document: add support for Path for loading pdf

• pyxpdf_data: add 35 base Postscript fonts from ghostscript

Bugs Fixed

• Fix #9: segfault using text()

• Fix #8: add checks for file in Config.add_font_file()

0.2.2 (2020-07-03)

• Config: add function to add missing fonts Config.add_font_file()

• Introduce PDFImage to represent a PDF Image.

• PDFImageOutput: get() returns PDFImage instead of Pillow Image

0.2.1 (2020-06-12)

Bugs Fixed

• fix all direct memory leaks

• Config: fix Config.text_encoding setter, encodings with lowercase characters were not able to set.

• fix weird bytes encoding problem in python debug builds

0.2.0 (2020-06-11)

• Python 2.7 support dropped

• 2 optional dependencies (Pillow, pyxpdf_data) introduced

New Features

• Introduce (optional) package pyxpdf_data which add more encoding support.

• API: add specialised classes for pdf outputs, PDFOuputDevice.

  • TextOutput - For Text extraction

  • RawImageOutput - Render PDF Page as Image

  • PDFImageOutput - Extract images from PDF

• Config: add new global settings:

  • Config.anti_alias

  • Config.enable_freetype

  • Config.vector_anti_alias

Bugs Fixed

• pdftotext: extracted text contains clipped text even when explictly discarding it.

• Config: fix loading of external xdfrc with Config.load_file()

0.1.1 (2020-05-10)

• FIX: default Config.text_encoding value i.e UTF-8 does not persist Config.reset() and changes to Latin1.

• pdftotext: remove all parameters that change global Config properties.

0.1 (2020-04-20)

Initial stable release.