PLAYA-PDF 0.2.9: Final (really) 0.2 release

What's Changed

• fix: Support the all-important empty name object
• feat!: Break the CLI again (ZeroVer YOLO) to better support page ranges
• feat: Support some limited and lossy text extraction in the CLI
• feat: Add necessary .doc property to page list
• fix: Correct type annotations for page list

Full Changelog: v0.2.8...v0.2.9

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.8: Much Improved Parallelism (M. I. P.)

What's Changed

• fix: accept None for max_workers by @dhdaines in #49
• Avoid using (non-serializable) weak references in worker processes by @dhdaines in #50
• Enable resolution of indirect object references when using worker processes by @dhdaines in #51

Full Changelog: v0.2.7...v0.2.8

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.7: Definitive 0.2.x release

What's Changed

• Remove most uses of Typing.cast by @dhdaines in #37
• Optimize text placement (some dare call it "rendering") by @dhdaines in #38
• Fix font size and rotated/skewed bounding boxes by @dhdaines in #39
• fix: deprecate layout in CLI right away and do other useful stuff by @dhdaines in #40
• Correctly implement ToUnicode according to the PDF standard and not that bogus technical note (that the PDF standard refers to...) by @dhdaines in #41
• feat: support slices and tuples in page list by @dhdaines in #42
• Optimize text extraction a bit more by @dhdaines in #43
• Make text less Lazy 😥 by @dhdaines in #47
• Treat marked content sections (more) correctly
• fix: recognize junk before header and compensate (fixes: #46) by @dhdaines in #48

Full Changelog: v0.2.6...v0.2.7

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.6: New year, new acronym

What's Changed

• ci: test on windows and mac by @dhdaines in #33
• Support parallel operations over pages by @dhdaines in #36
• Partially correct the handling of some types of CMaps (not fully correct though)

Full Changelog: v0.2.5...v0.2.6

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.5: Bug fixes and improvements

What's Changed

• Fix various bugs in the lazy API
  • Add specialized __len__ methods to ContentObject classes
  • Clarify iteration over ContentObject
• Fix installation of playa-pdf[crypto]
• Fix attribute classes in structure tree elements
• Deprecate "user" device space to avoid confusion with user space
• Parse embedded CMaps (mostly)
• Update pdfplumber support
• Add parser for object streams and iterator over all indirect objects
  in a document

Full Changelog: v0.2.4...v0.2.5

v0.2.4

What's Changed

• Add (and fix) 3rd party test suites, primariy pdf.js by @dhdaines in #26
• Try much harder to read even very broken PDFs
• Try somewhat harder to not produce empty TextObject (still a work in progress)

Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.2.4

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.3: Release early and often (before vacation)

What's Changed

• Require a newline before EI to fix various inline images by @dhdaines in #25
• Refactoring the CMap parser missed a very important corner case (which somehow mypy did not flag?)
• structtree property did not actually exist on Document and Page (oops!)

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.2: Make it go fast again

What's Changed

• Resolve filters before checking if it isn't a list by @dhdaines in #22
• Verify that we don't have pdfminer.six#1059 (and warn about it) by @dhdaines in #23
• Optimize cmaps by @dhdaines in #24

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

PLAYA-PDF 0.2.1: Fix some bugs

What's Changed

• Fix the RLE implementation by @dhdaines in #19 (originally pdfminer/pdfminer.six#1055 by @helpmefindaname)
• Report the actual device space bounding box for rotated text by @dhdaines in #20
• Prevent endless looping on bogus stream length and other EOFs by @dhdaines in #21

Full Changelog: v0.2...v0.2.1

PLAYA-PDF 0.2: Break all the APIs

What's Changed

• Support TIFF predictor on image streams by @dhdaines in #18 (originally from pdfminer/pdfminer.six#1058 by @helpmefindaname)
• Support different "device spaces" (screen, page, and default user space)
• expose form XObjects on Page to allow getting only their contents
• expose form XObject IDs in LayoutDict
• make TextState conform to PDF spec (leading and line matrix) and document it
• expose more of TextState in LayoutDict (render mode in particular)
• do not try to map characters with no ToUnicode and no Encoding
• properly support Pattern color space (uncolored tiling patterns) the
  way pdfplumber expects it to work
• support marked content points as ContentObjects
• document ContentObjects
• make a proper schema for LayoutDict, document it, and communicate it to Polars
• separate color values and patterns in LayoutDict

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.2