pypi pypdf 5.0.0
Version 5.0.0, 2024-09-17

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Version 5.0.0, 2024-09-15

This version drops support for Python 3.7 (not maintained since July 2023), PdfMerger (use PdfWriter instead) and AnnotationBuilder (use annotations instead).

Deprecations (DEP)

  • Remove the deprecated PfdMerger and AnnotationBuilder classes and other deprecations cleanup (#2813)
  • Drop Python 3.7 support (#2793)

New Features (ENH)

  • Add capability to remove /Info from PDF (#2820)
  • Add incremental capability to PdfWriter (#2811)
  • Add UniGB-UTF16 encodings (#2819)
  • Accept utf strings for metadata (#2802)
  • Report PdfReadError instead of RecursionError (#2800)
  • Compress PDF files merging identical objects (#2795)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

  • Fix sheared image (#2801)

Robustness (ROB)

  • Robustify .set_data() (#2821)
  • Raise PdfReadError when missing /Root in trailer (#2808)
  • Fix extract_text() issues on damaged PDFs (#2760)
  • Handle images with empty data when processing an image from bytes (#2786)

Developer Experience (DEV)

  • Fix coverage uploads (#2832)
  • Test against Python 3.13 (#2776)

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