Version 0.4

Added/Changed

• Python 3.11 support (#71)
• Markdown output for deletions from HTML <del>foo</del> to ~~foo~~ (#69)
• Minor usability improvements with Skim PDF (#70)
• New pdfminer, with type annotations and page labels (#56, #57)

Fixed

• TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'PSKeyword' and 'float' (#58)
• Outlines without x/y coordinates (#55)
• Outlines whose destination is a PDFObjRef (#72)

Removed

• Support for Python 3.6 (#45)

Full Changelog: v0.3...v0.4

Version 0.3

This will be the last release to support Python 3.6.

Added

• Support for "Square" and "FreeText" annotation types (#46, #50)

Fixed

• Assertion failure on PDF pages with only an LTFigure and no LTTextBox/Line components (#48)
• Spurious warnings for unsupported "Popup" annotations

Version 0.2

New features:

• Strikeout annotations are rendered using surrounding context for the deletion.
• Document layout is now inferred by default from pdfminer, --cols remains only as a fallback/override.
• Support for alternative page numbers, when present in the PDF.
• JSON output format, as an alternative to Markdown.
• --keep-hyphens option.
• Command-line options for custom layout analysis parameters.

Internal improvements:

• Significant refactoring.
• Type annotations.
• Added support for pluggable output formats.

Fixed:

• #42 crash on annotations with broken references
• #44 UTF8 output on Windows

Version 0.1

This is the first "official" release of pdfannots. Binaries are available from PyPI, or:

pip install pdfannots