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Changelog

All notable changes to Doctra will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.4.3] - 2024-XX-XX

Current Release

This is the current stable release of Doctra.

Features

  • Multiple PDF Parsers

    • StructuredPDFParser: Complete document processing
    • EnhancedPDFParser: Parsing with image restoration
    • ChartTablePDFParser: Specialized chart/table extraction

  • Image Restoration

    • DocRes integration for document enhancement
    • 6 restoration tasks: appearance, dewarping, deshadowing, deblurring, binarization, end2end
    • GPU acceleration support

  • VLM Integration

    • Support for OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, and OpenRouter
    • Structured data extraction from charts and tables
    • Automatic conversion to Excel/HTML/JSON

  • Output Formats

    • Markdown with embedded images
    • HTML for web viewing
    • Excel for data analysis
    • JSON for programmatic access
    • High-quality image extraction

  • User Interfaces

    • Gradio-based web UI
    • Comprehensive CLI
    • Full Python API

  • Visualization

    • Layout detection visualization
    • Bounding box overlays
    • Confidence scores
    • Multi-page grid display

Dependencies

  • Python 3.8+
  • PaddlePaddle >= 2.4.0
  • PaddleOCR >= 2.6.0
  • Pillow >= 8.0.0
  • OpenCV >= 4.5.0
  • Pandas >= 1.3.0
  • Tesseract >= 0.1.3
  • PyTesseract >= 0.3.10
  • pdf2image >= 1.16.0
  • Anthropic >= 0.40.0
  • Outlines >= 0.0.34

[Unreleased]

Planned Features

  • Support for additional document formats (DOCX, PPTX)
  • Improved table structure recognition
  • Batch processing API
  • Docker container
  • Cloud deployment guides
  • Additional VLM providers
  • Performance optimizations
  • Multilingual documentation

Version History

[0.4.3] - Current

Current stable release with full feature set.

[0.4.0] - Previous

Initial public release with core features.

Upgrade Guide

From 0.4.0 to 0.4.3

No breaking changes. Simply upgrade:

pip install --upgrade doctra

Contributing

See our Contributing Guide for information on:

  • Reporting bugs
  • Requesting features
  • Submitting pull requests
  • Development setup

Support