PyPDF2 v1.27.9 Release Notes
Release Date: 2022-04-24 // about 2 years ago-
🐎 A change I would like to highlight is the performance improvement for large PDF files (#808) 🎉
🆕 New Features (ENH)
- Add papersizes (#800)
- Allow setting permission flags when encrypting (#803)
- Allow setting form field flags (#802)
🐛 Bug Fixes (BUG)
- TypeError in xmp._converter_date (#813)
- Improve spacing for text extraction (#806)
- Fix PDFDocEncoding Character Set (#809)
Robustness (ROB)
- Use null ID when encrypted but no ID given (#812)
- Handle recursion error (#804)
📚 Documentation (DOC)
- CMaps (#811)
- 🛠 The PDF Format + commit prefixes (#810)
- Add compression example (#792)
Developer Experience (DEV)
- 🐎 Add Benchmark for Performance Testing (#781)
🚧 Maintenance (MAINT)
- Validate PDF magic byte in strict mode (#814)
- Make PdfFileMerger.addBookmark() behave life PdfFileWriters' (#339)
- 📜 Quadratic runtime while parsing reduced to linear (#808)
✅ Testing (TST)
- Newlines in text extraction (#807)