20231228

Removed

• Support for Python 3.6 and 3.7

Added

• Output converter for the hOCR format
• Font name aliases for Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman
• Documentation on why special characters can sometimes not be extracted
• Storing Bezier path and dashing style of line in LTCurve

Fixed

• Broken CI/CD pipeline by setting upper version limit for black, mypy, pip and setuptools
• flake8 failures
• ValueError when bmp images with 1 bit channel are decoded
• ValueError when trying to decrypt empty metadata values
• Sphinx errors during building of documentation
• TypeError when getting default width of font
• Installing typing-extensions on Python 3.6 and 3.7
• TypeError in cmapdb.py when parsing null characters
• Color "convenience operators" now (per spec) also set color space
• ValueError when extracting images, due to breaking changes in Pillow
• Small typo's and issues in the documentation
• Ignore non-Unicode cmaps in TrueType fonts

Changed

• Using non-hardcoded version string and setuptools-git-versioning to enable installation from source and building on Python 3.12

Deprecated

• Usage of if __name__ == "__main__" where it was only intended for testing purposes

Removed

• Support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 because they are end-of-life