Version 2.12.0, 2022-12-10

What's Changed

Version 2.12.0, 2022-12-10

New Features (ENH)

• Add support to extract gray scale images (#1460) by @joeywang4
• Make PdfReader.get_object accept integer arguments (#1459) by @pubpub-zz
• Add 'threads' property to PdfWriter (#1458) by @pubpub-zz
• Add 'open_destination' property to PdfWriter (#1431) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Scale PDF annotations (#1479) by @joshhendo

Robustness (ROB)

• Padding issue with AES encryption (#1469)
• Accept empty object as null objects (#1477) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Add module documentation the PaperSize class (#1447) by @MagnumBarrage

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Use 'page_number' instead of 'pagenum' (#1365)
• Add List of pages to PageRangeSpec (#1456) by @pubpub-zz

Testing (TST)

• Cleanup temporary files (#1454) by @pubpub-zz
• Mark test_tounicode_is_identity as external (#1449) by @heirecka
• Use Ubuntu 20.04 for running CI test suite (#1452) by @MasterOdin

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New Contributors

• @heirecka made their first contribution in #1449
• @MagnumBarrage made their first contribution in #1447
• @joeywang4 made their first contribution in #1460
• @joshhendo made their first contribution in #1479

Full Changelog: 2.11.2...2.12.0

Version 2.11.2, 2022-11-20

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add remove_from_tree (#1432) by @pubpub-zz
• Add AnnotationBuilder.rectangle (#1388)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• JavaScript executed twice (#1439) by @pubpub-zz
• ToUnicode stores /Identity-H instead of stream (#1433) by @pubpub-zz
• Declare Pillow as optional dependency (#1392)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Link 'Full Changelog' automatically
• Modify read_string_from_stream to a benchmark (#1415)
• Improve error reporting of read_object (#1412) by @pubpub-zz
• Test Python 3.11 (#1404)
• Extend Flake8 ignore list (#1410)
• Use correct pytest markers (#1407)
• Move project configuration to pyproject.toml (#1382) by @singingwolfboy

Documentation (DOC)

• Fix typos in installation.md by @amyreyespdx in #1419
• Typos in PDF format documentation by @pavlidvg in #1438

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New Contributors

• @singingwolfboy made their first contribution in #1391
• @amyreyespdx made their first contribution in #1419
• @pavlidvg made their first contribution in #1438

Full Changelog: 2.11.1...2.11.2

Version 2.11.1, 2022-10-09

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• td matrix (#1373) by @srogmann
• Cope with cmap from #1322 (#1372) by @pubpub-zz

Robustness (ROB)

• Cope with str returned from get_data in cmap (#1380) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Remove watermark PageObject declaration as it is already present inside for-loop (#1384) by @cs2sandeep

New Contributors

• @cs2sandeep made their first contribution in #1384

Full Changelog: 2.11.0...2.11.1

Version 2.11.0, 2022-09-25

What's Changed

New Features (ENH):

• Addition of optional visitor-functions in extract_text() (#1252) by @srogmann
• Add PageObject.images attribute (#1330) by @MartinThoma
• Add metadata.creation_date and modification_date (#1364) by @MartinThoma

Bug Fixes (BUG):

• Lookup index in _xobj_to_image can be ByteStringObject (#1366)
• 'IndexError: index out of range' when using extract_text (#1361)
• Errors in transfer_rotation_to_content() (#1356) by @pubpub-zz

Robustness (ROB):

• Ensure update_page_form_field_values does not fail if no fields (#1346) by @pubpub-zz

Testing (TST):

• read_string_from_stream performance (#1355) by ### @mergezalot

New Contributors

• @srogmann made their first contribution in #1252

Full Changelog: 2.10.9...2.11.0

2.10.9

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Add rotation property and transfer_rotate_to_content (#1348) by @pubpub-zz

Performance Improvements (PI)

• Avoid string concatenation with large embedded base64-encoded images (#1350) by @mergezalot

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Format floats using their intrinsic decimal precision (#1267) by @programmarchy

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix merge_page for pages without resources (#1349) by @pubpub-zz

New Contributors

• @mergezalot made their first contribution in #1350
• @programmarchy made their first contribution in #1267

Full Changelog: 2.10.8...2.10.9

Version 2.10.8, 2022-09-14

What's Changed

• ROB: Improve NameObject reading/writing by @pubpub-zz in #1345
• ENH: Add PageObject.user_unit property by @MartinThoma in #1336

Full Changelog: 2.10.7...2.10.8

Version 2.10.7, 2022-09-11

What's Changed

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix Error in transformations (#1341) by @pubpub-zz
• Decode #23 in NameObject (#1342) by @pubpub-zz

Testing (TST)

• Use pytest.warns() for warnings, and .raises() for exceptions (#1325) by @mgorny

New Contributors

• @mgorny made their first contribution in #1325

Full Changelog: 2.10.6...2.10.7

2.10.6

What's Changed

Two robustness issues were fixed by @pubpub-zz - thank you 🙏
The infinite loop issue might also be a security concern, depending on how you use PyPDF2.

Robustness (ROB):

• Fix infinite loop due to Invalid object (#1331)
• Fix image extraction issue with superfluous whitespaces (#1327)

Full Changelog: 2.10.5...2.10.6

Version 1.28.6, 2022-09-08

This is a bugfix for the old 1.x branch of PyPDF2 that still supports Python 2. Please try to update to the latest PyPDF2 > 2.0.0 version to get way better text extraction, support for modern encryption, and much more.

What's Changed

• BUG: Adjust 'super' calls for Python 2 by @omit66 in #1335

New Contributors

• @omit66 made their first contribution in #1335

Full Changelog: 1.28.5...1.28.6

Version 2.10.5, 2022-09-04

What's Changed

New Features (ENH)

• Process XRefStm (#1297)
• Auto-detect RTL for text extraction (#1309) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Avoid scaling cropbox twice (#1314) by @yegorLitvinov

Robustness (ROB)

• Fix offset correction in revised PDF (#1318) by @pubpub-zz
• Crop data of /U and /O in encryption dictionary to 48 bytes (#1317) by @exiledkingcc
• MultiLine bfrange in cmap (#1299) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with 2 digit codes in bfchar (#1310) by @pubpub-zz
• Accept '/annn' charset as ASCII code (#1316) by @pubpub-zz
• Log errors during Float / NumberObject initialization (#1315) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with corrupted entries in xref table (#1300) by @pubpub-zz

Documentation (DOC)

• Migration guide (PyPDF2 1.x ➔ 2.x) (#1324)
• Creating a coverage report (#1319)
• Fix AnnotationBuilder.free_text example (#1311)
• Fix usage of page.scale by replacing it with page.scale_by (#1313) by @yegorLitvinov

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Only run coverage for PyPDF2

Maintenance (MAINT)

• PdfReaderProtocol (#1303)
• Throw PdfReadError if Trailer can't be read (#1298) by @ediamondscience
• Remove catching OverflowException (#1302)

Testing (TST)

• Catch Exception for sample-files repo (#1307)

New Contributors

• @ediamondscience made their first contribution in #1298
• @yegorLitvinov made their first contribution in #1313
• @markdlevy made their first contribution in #1311

Full Changelog: 2.10.4...2.10.5