v0.5.3

Fixed

• Allow import pdfplumber even if ImageMagick not installed.

v0.5.2

Added

• Access to curve points. (E.g., page.curves[0]["points"].)
• Ability for .draw_line to draw curve points.

Changed

• Disaggregated "min_words_vertical" (default: 3) and "min_words_horizontal" (default: 1), removing "text_word_threshold".
• Internally, made utils.decimalize a bit more robust; now throws errors on non-decimalizable items.
• Now explicitly ignoring some (obscure) pdfminer object attributes.
• Raw input for .draw_line from a bounding box to ((x, y), (x, y)), for consistency with curve["points"] and with Pillow's underlying method.

Fixed

• Fixed typo bug when .rect_edges is called before .edges

v0.5.1

Added

• Quick-draw PageImage methods: .draw_vline, .draw_vlines, .draw_hline, and .draw_hlines.
• Boolean parameter keep_blank_chars for .extract_words(...) and TableFinder settings.

Changed

• Increased default text_tolerance and intersection_tolerance TableFinder values from 1 to 3.

Fixed

• Properly handle conversion of PDFs with transparency to pillow images.
• Properly handle pandas DataFrames as inputs to multi-draw commands (e.g., PageImage.draw_rects(...)).

v0.5.0

• Completely overhauls the approach to table extraction.
• Adds visual debugging.
• See CHANGELOG.md for details.

v0.4.0

• Adds Page.extract_words(...), inspired by @jsfenfen's coalesce_words.py
• Adds Page.filter(...)
• Adds height/width properties to CroppedPage
• Shifts idiom from .from_path to .open, and makes PDF class compatible with with statements.
• Fixes a memory leak (caused by misuse of atexit)

v0.3.1

Quickfix to v0.3.0; changes get_text(...) -> extract_text(...) for symmetry's sake.

v0.3.0

A ton of improvements and new features:

• Shifts to a lazy-loading paradigm, so that you don't have to process an entire PDF just to access one page.
• Strips out pandas requirement and usage.
  • Results in a 3x-ish speedup for within_bbox and similar methods, thanks to short-circuiting & operators.
• Moves from floats to Decimals to improve accuracy of equality comparisons.
• Moves to a more modular architecture, adds Container, Page, and CroppedPage classes.
• Adds Page.crop(...).
• Adds Page.extract_table(...) for Tabula-like functionality.
• Adds PDF.metadata property.
• Adds derived properties Container.rect_edges and Container.edges, decomposing each rectangle decomposed into its constituent lines.
• Renames collate_chars(...) to get_text(...) (while retaining a reference to the former).
• Enriches the the command-line tool's JSON output to include PDF metadata and page dimensions. [https://github.com//issues/3]