tesserocr changelog

Changelog History

• v2.5.1 Changes

  March 17, 2020

  • 🛠 Fix order of linker arguments (#211)
  • 🛠 Fix memory leaks in GetComponentImages (#213)

• v2.5.0 Changes

  November 08, 2019

  🆕 New features and enhancements:

  • 👌 Support for RowAttributes method in LTRResultIterator (#192)
  • SetImage: use PNG instead of JPEG fallback (#194)
  • Replace STRING::string() by c_str() (#197)
  • Don't use assignment operator for TessBaseAPI (#200)

• v2.4.1 Changes

  August 23, 2019

  🐛 Bugs fixed:

  • pixa_to_list python3 segfault (#176)
  • BlockPolygon python3 segfault (#185)

• v2.4.0 Changes

  December 05, 2018

  👍 Tesseract v4 new API methods supported:

  • GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices (#147)
  • BlanksBeforeWord (#158)

• v2.3.1 Changes

  August 13, 2018

  🚀 Python 3.7 support release.

• v2.3.0 Changes

  June 26, 2018

  • 👌 Support for Tesseract 4
    • New OCR engines LSTM_ONLY and TESSERACT_LSTM_COMBINED
    • New default tessdata path handling (#104)
  • 🛠 Fixed compilation against Tesseract v3.05.02 which required c++11 (#120)
  • 0️⃣ Fallback to 'eng' as default language when default language returned by the API is empty (#103)
  • ➕ Added notes about Windows installation in the README (#97)

• v2.2.2 Changes

  July 26, 2017

  • 👌 Support timeout in Recognize API methods (#55)
    • You can now pass a timeout parameter (milliseconds) to the Recognize and RecognizeForChopTest API methods.
  • 🛠 Fixed typo in _Enum initialization error message formatting (#56)
  • 👻 Display tessdata path in init exception message (#60)
  • 🛠 Fixed version check in Python 3 when reading the version number from the tesseract executable (#60)

• v2.2.1 Changes

  May 31, 2017

  🛠 Fixed setup bug that affects gcc versions with no -std=c++11 option support (which should be required by tesseract 4.0+ and not older versions). #53

• v2.2.0 Changes

  May 28, 2017

  • 👌 Improved setup script
  • 👍 Tesseract 4.0 support:
    • Two new OEM enums: OEM.LSTM_ONLY and OEM.TESSERACT_LSTM_COMBINED (tesseract 4.0+)
    • Two new API methods: GetTSVText and DetectOrientationScript (tesseract 4.0+)
    • PyTessBaseApi. __init__ now accepts a new attribute oem (OCR engine mode: OEM.DEFAULT by default).
    • file_to_text and image_to_text functions now also accept the oem attribute as above.
  • 🛠 Fixed segfault on API Init* failure
  • Fixed segfault when pixa_to_list returns NULL
  • 📚 Documentation fixes and other minor improvments

• v2.1.3 Changes

  November 12, 2016

  🐛 Bug fix release:

  • 👌 Improved setup: attempt compile with default environment variables even if pkg-config fails
  • WordFontAttributes now returns None instead of segfaulting when NULL pointer is returned by API