What's Changed
The highlight of the 2.1.0 release is the most massive improvement to the
text extraction capabilities of PyPDF2 since 2016 🥳🎊 A very big thank you goes
to pubpub-zz who took a lot of time and
knowledge about the PDF format to finally get those improvements into PyPDF2.
Thank you 🤗💚
In case the new function causes any issues, you can use _extract_text_old
for the old functionality. Please also open a bug ticket in that case.
There were several people who have attempted to bring similar improvements to
PyPDF2. All of those were valuable. The main reason why they didn't get merged
is the big amount of open PRs / issues. pubpub-zz was the most comprehensive
PR which also incorporated the latest changes of PyPDF2 2.0.0.
Thank you to VictorCarlquist for #858 and
asabramo for #464 🤗
New Features (ENH)
- Massive text extraction improvement (#924). Closed many open issues:
- Exceptions / missing spaces in extract_text() method (#17) 🕺
- PyPDF2 failing to read unicode character (#37)
- Unable to read bullets (#230)
- ExtractText yields nothing for apparently good PDF (#168) 🎉
- Encoding issue in extract_text() (#235)
- extractText() doesn't work on Chinese PDF (#252)
- encoding error (#260)
- Trouble with apostophes in names in text "O'Doul" (#384)
- extract_text works for some PDF files, but not the others (#437)
- Euro sign not being recognized by extractText (#443)
- Failed extracting text from French texts (#524)
- extract_text doesn't extract ligatures correctly (#598)
- reading spanish text - mark convert issue (#635)
- Read PDF changed from text to random symbols (#654)
- .extractText() reads / as 1. (#789)
- Update glyphlist (#947) - inspired by #464
- Allow adding PageRange objects (#948)
Bug Fixes (BUG)
Robustness (ROB)
- Fix some conversion errors on non conform PDF (#932)
Documentation (DOC)
- Elaborate on PDF text extraction difficulties (#939)
- Add logo (#942)
- rotate vs Transformation().rotate (#937)
- Example how to use PyPDF2 with AWS S3 (#938)
- How to deprecate (#930)
- Fix typos on robustness page (#935)
- Remove scripts (pdfcat) from docs (#934)
Developer Experience (DEV)
- Ignore .python-version file
- Mark deprecated code with no-cover (#943)
- Automatically create Github releases from tags (#870)
Testing (TST)
- Text extraction for non-latin alphabets (#954)
- Ignore PdfReadWarning in benchmark (#949)
- writer.remove_text (#946)
- Add test for Tree and _security (#945)
Code Style (STY)
- black, isort, Flake8, splitting buildCharMap (#950)
Full Changelog: 2.0.0...2.1.0
New Contributors
- @chrisdonlan made their first contribution in #931
- @2e0byo made their first contribution in #870
- @HarHarLinks made their first contribution in #944
Full Changelog: 2.0.0...2.1.0