pdfplumber 0.3.0

on Python PyPI

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]