PyMuPDF 1.23.9rc1 release candidate

PyMuPDF-1.23.9rc1 release candidate is available.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed with:

python -m pip install pymupdf==1.23.9rc1

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available.]

Changes in version 1.23.9rc1 (2024-01-02)

• Default to new "rebased" implementation.

  • The old "classic" implementation is available with import fitz_old as fitz.
  • For more information about why we are changing to the rebased implementation,
    see: #2680

• Bug fixes (rebased implementation only):

  • Fixed #2911
  • Fixed #2919
  • Fixed #2922
  • Fixed #2943

• Other:

  • Fixed issue with add_redact_annot() mentioned in #2934.
  • Fixed rebased fitz.pymupdf_version_tuple - was previously set to mupdf version.
  • Improved scripts/test.py to help investigation of MuPDF issues.
  • Fixed Page.rotation() to return 0 for non-PDF documents instead of raising an exception.
  • Fixed internal quad detection to cope with any Python sequence.

PyMuPDF-1.23.8 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.8 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available yet, they will be build and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.23.8 (2023-12-19)

• Bug fixes (rebased implementation only):

  • Fixed 2634
  • Fixed 2861
  • Fixed 2871
  • Fixed 2886

• Bug fixes (rebased and classic implementations):

  • Fixed 2885

• Other:

  • Rebased implementation:

    • Page.insert_htmlbox(): new, much more powerful alternative to Page.insert_textbox() or TextWriter.fill_textbox(), using Story.
    • Story.fit*(): new methods for fitting a Story into an expanded rect.
    • Story.write_with_links(): add support for external links.
    • Document.language(): fixed to use MuPDF's new mupdf.fz_string_from_text_language2().
    • Document.subset_fonts() - fixed.
    • Fixed internal Archive._add_treeitem() method.
    • Fixed fitz_new.__doc__ to contain PyMuPDF and Python version information, and OS name.
    • Removed use of (*args, **kwargs) in API, we now specify keyword args explicitly.
    • Work with new MuPDF Python exception classes.

  • Fixed bug where button_states() returns None when /AP points to an indirect object.

  • Fixed pillow test to not ignore all errors, and install pillow when testing.

  • Added test for fitz.css_for_pymupdf_font() (uses package pymupdf-fonts).

  • Simplified Github Actions test specifications.

  • Updated tests/README.md.

PyMuPDF-1.23.7 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.7 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available yet, they will be build and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.23.7 (2023-11-30)

• Bug fixes in rebased implementation, not fixed in classic implementation:

  • Fixed #2232
  • Fixed #2788
  • Fixed #2791

• Bug fixes (rebased and classic implementations):

  • Fixed #2736
  • Fixed #2749
  • Fixed #2753
  • Fixed #2812
  • Fixed #2829
  • Fixed #2841

• Use MuPDF-1.23.7.

• Other:

  • Rebased implementation:

    • Added flake8 code checking to test suite, and made various fixes.
    • Disable diagnostics during Document constructor to match classic implementation.

  • Additional fix to #2553

  • Fixed MuPDF Bug 707324 <https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707324>_: Story: HTML table row background color repeated incorrectly

  • Added scripts/test.py, for simple build+test of PyMuPDF git checkout.

  • Added fitz.pymupdf_version_tuple, e.g. (1, 23, 6).

  • Restored mistakenly-reverted fix for #2345.

  • Include any trailing ... repeated <N> times... text in warnings returned by mupdf_warnings() (rebased only).

PyMuPDF-1.23.6 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.6 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels are not available yet, they will be build and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.23.6 (2023-11-06)

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed #2553
  • Fixed #2608
  • Fixed #2710
  • Fixed #2774
  • Fixed #2775
  • Fixed #2777

• Other:

  • Use MuPDF-1.23.5.
  • Added Document.resolve_names() (rebased implementation only).

PyMuPDF-1.23.5 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.5 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.5 (2023-10-11)

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed #2341
  • Fixed #2522
  • Fixed #2548
  • Fixed #2596
  • Fixed #2635
  • Fixed #2637
  • Fixed #2699
  • Fixed #2703
  • Fixed #2710
  • Fixed #2723
  • Fixed #2730

• Other:

  • Use MuPDF-1.23.4.
  • Fix optimisation flags with system installs.
  • Fixed the problem that the clip parameter does not take effect during table recognition
  • Support Pillow mode "RGBa"
  • Support extra word delimiters
  • Support checking valid PDF name objects

PyMuPDF-1.23.4 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.4 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.4 (2023-09-26)

• Improved build instructions.

• Fixed Tesseract in rebased implementation.

• Improvements to build/install with system MuPDF.

• Fixed Pyodide builds.

• Fixed rebased bug in _insert_image().

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed #2556
  • Fixed #2637
  • Fixed #2683
  • Fixed #2691
  • Fixed #2692

PyMuPDF-1.23.3 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.3 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.3 (2023-08-31)

• Fixed use of Tesseract for OCR.

PyMuPDF-1.23.2 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.2 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.2 (2023-08-28)

• Fixed #2613

PyMuPDF-1.23.1 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.1 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.1 (2023-08-24)

• Updated README and package summary description.

• Fixed a problem on some Linux installations with Python-3.10
  (and possibly earlier versions) where import fitz failed with
  ImportError: libcrypt.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

• Fixed incompatible architecture error on MacOS arm64.

• Fixed installation warning from Poetry about missing entry in wheels'
  RECORD files.

PyMuPDF-1.23.0 released

PyMuPDF-1.23.0 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

Changes in version 1.23.0 (2023-08-22)

• Add method find_tables() to the Page object.

  This allows locating tables on any supported document page, and
  extracting table content by cell.

• New "rebased" implementation of PyMuPDF.

  The rebased implementation is available as Python module
  fitz_new. It can be used as a drop-in replacement with import fitz_new as fitz.

• Python-independent MuPDF libraries are now in a second wheel called
  PyMuPDFb that will be automatically installed by pip.

  This is to save space on pypi.org - a full release only needs one
  PyMuPDFb wheel for each OS.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed #2542
  • Fixed #2533
  • Fixed #2537

• Other changes:

  • Dropped support for Python-3.7.

  • Fix for wrong page / annot /Contents cleaning.

    We need to set pdf_filter_options::no_update to zero.

  • Added new function get_tessdata().

  • Cope with problem /Annot arrays.

    When copying page annotations in method Document.insert_pdf we
    previously did not check the validity of members of the /Annots
    array. For faulty members (like null or non-dictionary items) this
    could cause unnecessary exceptions. This fix implements more checks
    and skips such array items.

  • Additional annotation type checks.

    We did not previously check for annotation type when getting /
    setting annotation border properties. This is now checked in
    accordance with MuPDF.

  • Increase fault tolerance.

    Avoid exceptions in method insert_pdf() when source pages contains
    invalid items in the /Annots array.

  • Return empty border dict for applicable annots.

    We previously were returning a non-empty border dictionary even for
    non-applicable annotation types. We now return the empty dictionary
    {} in these cases. This requires some corresponding changes in the
    annotation .update() method, namely for dashes and border width.

  • Restrict set_rect to applicable annot types.

    We were insufficiently excluding non-applicable annotation types
    from set_rect() method. We now let MuPDF catch unsupported
    annotations and return False in these cases.

  • Wrong fontsize computation in page.get_texttrace().

    When computing the font size we were using the final text
    transformation matrix, where we should have taken span->trm
    instead. This is corrected here.

  • Updates to cope with changes to latest MuPDF.

    pdf_lookup_anchor() has been removed.

  • Update fill_textbox to better respect rect.width

    The function norm_words in fill_textbox had a bug in its last
    loop, appending n+1 characters when actually measuring width of n
    characters. It led to a bug in fill_texbox when you tried to write
    a single word mostly composed of "wide" letters (M,m, W, w...),
    causing the written text to exceed the given rect.

    The fix was just to replace n+1 by n.

  • Add script_focus and script_blur options to widget.