What's Changed
The 2.2.0 release improves text extraction (#969 - again by @pubpub-zz 🙏):
- Improvements around /Encoding / /ToUnicode
- Extraction of CMaps improved
- Fallback for font def missing
- Support for /Identity-H and /Identity-V: utf-16-be
- Support for /GB-EUC-H / /GB-EUC-V / GBp/c-EUC-H / /GBpc-EUC-V (beta release for evaluation)
- Arabic (for evaluation)
- Whitespace extraction improvements
Those changes should mainly improve the text extraction for non-ASCII alphabets,
e.g. Russian / Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Arabic.
Full Changelog: 2.1.1...2.2.0