20200517

Added

• Python3 shebang line to script in tools (408

Fixed

• Fix ordering of textlines within a textbox when boxes_flow=None (#411)

20200402

Added

• Allow boxes_flow LAParam to be passed as None, validate the input, and update documentation (#395)
• Also accept file-like objects in high level functions extract_text and extract_pages (#392)

Fixed

• Text no longer comes in reverse order when advanced layout analysis is disabled (#398)
• Updated misleading documentation for word_margin and char_margin (#407)
• Ignore ValueError when converting font encoding differences (#389)
• Grouping of text lines outside of parent container bounding box (#386)

Changed

• Group text lines if they are centered (#382)

20200124

Security

• Removed samples/issue-00152-embedded-pdf.pdf because it contains a possible security thread; a javascript enabled object (#364)

20200121

Fixed

• Interpret two's complement integer as unsigned integer (#352)
• Fix font name in html output such that it is recognized by browser (#357)
• Compute correct font height by removing scaling with font bounding box height (#348)
• KeyError when extracting embedded files and a Unicode file specification is missing (#338)

Removed

• The command-line utility latin2ascii.py (#360)

20200104

Removed

• Support for Python 2 (#346)

Changed

• Enforce pep8 coding style by adding flake8 to CI (#345)

20191110

Fixed

• Wrong order of text box grouping introduced by PR #315 (#335)

20191107

Deprecated

• The argument _py2_no_more_posargs because Python2 is removed on January
  , 2020 (#328 and
  #307)

Added

• Simple wrapper to easily extract text from a PDF file #330
• Support for extracting JBIG2 encoded images (#311 and #46)
• Sphinx documentation that is published on
  Read the Docs
  (#329)

Fixed

• Unhandled AssertionError when dumping pdf containing reference to object id 0
  (#318)
• Debug flag actually changes logging level to debug for pdf2txt.py and
  dumppdf.py (#325)

Changed

• Using argparse instead of getopt for command line interface of dumppdf.py (#321)
• Refactor LTLayoutContainer.group_textboxes for a significant speed up in layout analysis (#315)

Removed

• Files for external applications such as django, cgi and pyinstaller (#314)

20191020

Deprecated

• Support for Python 2 is dropped at January 1st, 2020 (#307)

Added

• Contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md (#259)
• Support new encodings OneByteEncoding and DLIdent for CMaps (#283)

Fixed

• Use six.iteritems() instead of dict().iteritems() to ensure Python2 and Python3 compatibility (#274)
• Properly convert Adobe Glyph names to unicode characters (#263)
• Allow CMap to be a content stream (#283)
• Resolve indirect objects for width and bounding boxes for fonts (#273)
• Actually updating stroke color in graphic state (#298)
• Interpret (invalid) negative font descent as a positive descent (#203)
• Correct colorspace comparision for images (#132)
• Allow for bounding boxes with zero height or width by removing assertion (#246)

Changed

• All dependencies are managed in setup.py (#306, #219)

20181108

Changed

• Speedup layout analysis (#141)
• Use argparse instead of replace deprecated getopt (#173)
• Allow pdfminer.six to be compiled with cython (#142)