Change Log

This project uses semantic versioning to track version numbers, where backwards incompatible changes (highlighted in bold) bump the major version of the package.

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• Minor nitpick to remove unused line (`#559`_ by `@KyleKing`_)

2.0.0

• Major modernization of textract absorbing the textract-py3 fork (`#543`_ by `@KyleKing`_)

  • Implement GitHub Actions CI/CD and improve test coverage

  • Fix minor inconsistencies on Windows

  • Resolve dependency specification errors by migrating to uv

  • Update some minimum dependency versions and sets minimum Python to 3.9

  • Migrate to PyPi Trusted Publisher for releases

• Multiple Fixes:

  • Return null on empty stream (`#422`_ by `@TheElementalOfDestruction`_)

  • Enable encoding detection for the txt parser (`#456`_ by `@LoicGrobol`_)

  • Catch ShellError from pdf2txt.py (`#495`_ by `@dhrim`_)

  • Support python3.12 (`#502`_ by `@branchv`_)

• Documentation Updates

  • Add colons to issue template for consistency (`#520`_ by `@mcp292`_)

  • Fix a few typos (`#430`_ by `@timgates42`_)

1.6.5

• switched epub parsing to MIT license compatible package (#411 by @jhale1805)

1.6.4

• several bug fixes, including:

  • fixing dependency declarations (#162 by @lillypad)

1.6.1

• several bug fixes, including:

  • fixing the readthedocs build (#150)

1.6.0

• Let the user provide file extension as an argument when the file name has no extension (#148 by @motazsaad)

• Added ability to parse audio with pocketsphinx (#122 by @barrust)

• Added ability to parse .psv and .tsv files (#141)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • checking for the importability of a parser rather than the presense of the file (#136 by @AusIV)

  • manage versions with bumpversion (#146)

  • properly reporting on missing external dependencies (#139 by @AusIV)

  • pin chardet to version 2.1.1 to avoid decode errors (#107)

  • avoid unicode decode error with html parser (#147 by @suned)

  • enabling autocomplete and improving error handling (#149)

1.5.0

• Added python 3 support, including pdfminer (#104 by @sirex via #126)

• Python 3 support for pdfminer using pdfminer.six (#116 by @jaraco via #126)

• fixed security vulnerability by properly using subprocess.call (#114 by @pierre-ernst)

• updating to tesseract 3.03 (#127)

• adding a .tif synonym for .tiff files (#113 by @onionradish)

• improved .docx support using docx2txt (#100 by @ankushshah89)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • including all requirements for Pillow (#119 by @akoumjian)

1.4.0

• added layout preservation option for pdftotext pdf extractor (#93 by @ankushshah89)

• added simple support for extensionless filenames, treating them as plain .txt files (#85)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • now extracting the text in tables from docx files at the end of the text extraction (#92 by @jsmith-mploir)

  • faster testing framework by only rebuilding test data when needed (#90)

  • fixed .html and .epub parsers to deal with beautifulsoup4 upgrades

  • using official msg-extractor now that it has a native setup.py

  • updated tests for .html, .ogg, .wav, and .mp3 file types to be consistent with more recent versions of the underlying packages.

1.3.0

• support for .rtf files (#84)

• support for .msg files (#87 and #17 by @anthonygarvan)

1.2.0

• support for .tiff files (#81)

• added support for other languages for tesseract (#76 by @anderser)

• added --option/-O flag to pass arbitrary arguments for things like languages into textract

• several bug fixes, including:

  • fix bug with doing OCR on multi-page pdfs and removing temporary directory (#82 by @pudo)

  • correctly accounting for whitespace in .odt documents (#79 by @evfredericksen)

  • standardizing testing environment to be compatible with different versions of third-party command line tools (#78)

1.1.0

• support for .wav, .mp3, and .ogg files (#56 and #62 by @arvindch)

• support for .csv files (#64)

• support for scanned .pdf files with tesseract (#66 by @pudo)

• support for .htm files (#69)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • .odt parser now correctly extracts text in order (#61 by @levivm)

  • fixed Docker development environment compatability with the Vagrant VM environment (#73 by @ShawnMilo)

• several internal improvements, including:

  • improvements in the python documentation (#70)

  • improved html output with reduced whitespace around inline elements in output text (#58 by @eiotec)

1.0.0

• standardized encoding of output with -e/--encoding option (#39)

• support for .xls and .xlsx files (#42 and #55 by @levivm)

• support for .epub files (#40 by @kokxx)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • removing tesseract version info from output of image parsers (#48)

  • problems with spaces in filenames (#53)

  • concurrancy problems with tesseract (#44 by @ShawnMilo, #41 by @christomitov)

• several internal improvements, including:

  • switching to using class-based parsers to abstract away the common functionality between different parser classes (#39)

  • switching to using a python-based test suite and added standardized text tests to make sure output is consistent across file types (#49)

  • including support for Docker-based testing (#46 by @ShawnMilo)

0.5.1

• several bug fixes, including:

  • documentation fixes

  • shell commands hanging on large files (#33)

0.5.0

• support for .json files (#13 by @anthonygarvan)

• support for .odt files (#29 by @christomitov)

• support for .ps files (#25)

• support for .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, and .png files (#30 by @christomitov)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • improved fallback handling in .pdf parser if the pdftotext command line utility isn’t installed (#26)

  • improved documentation for installation instructions on non-Ubuntu operating systems (#21, #26)

• several internal improvements, including:

  • cleaned up implementation of extension parsers to avoid magic

0.4.0

• support for .html files (#7)

• support for .eml files (#4)

• automated the documentation for the python package using sphinx-apidoc in docs/Makefile (#9)

0.3.0

• support for .txt files, haha (#8)

• fixed installation bug with not properly including requirements files in the manifest

0.2.0

• support for .doc files (#2)

• support for .pdf files (#3)

• several bug fixes, including:

  • fixing tab complete bug no file paths (#6)

  • fixing tests to make sure the work properly on travis-ci

0.1.0

• Initial release, support for .docx and .pptx