From aee33c87eda2b9c3ea5b50563a12281779beea15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James R. Barlow" Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 23:11:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Merge release notes --- docs/release_notes.rst | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/release_notes.rst b/docs/release_notes.rst index 76f9e5c6..91ce5bcc 100644 --- a/docs/release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/release_notes.rst @@ -3,12 +3,21 @@ Release notes OCRmyPDF uses `semantic versioning `_. + next ==== -- Python 3.4 compatibility dropped -- Remove deprecated API functions: ocrmypdf.main -- Remove OCRmyPDF.sh script +- Backward incompatible changes + + + Support for Python 3.4 dropped. Python 3.5 is now required. + + Support for Tesseract 3.02 and 3.03 dropped. Tesseract 3.04 or newer is required. Tesseract 4.00 (alpha) is supported. + + The OCRmyPDF.sh script was removed. + +- Add a new feature, ``--sidecar``, which allows creating "sidecar" text files which contain the OCR results in plain text. These OCR text is more reliable than extracting text from PDFs. Closes #126. +- New feature: ``--pdfa-image-compression``, which allows overriding Ghostscript's lossy-or-lossless image encoding heuristic and making all images JPEG encoded or lossless encoded as desired. Fixes #163. +- Fixed issue #143, added ``--quiet`` to suppress "INFO" messages +- Fixed issue #164, a typo +- Removed the command line parameters ``-n`` and ``--just-print`` since they have not worked for some time (reported as Ubuntu bug `#1687308 `_) v4.5.6